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How to make a VHS video toaster

Step 3Toaster dismemberment - phase 2

Toaster dismemberment - phase 2
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Once you're past the outer case on this toaster everything gets much easier. Most of the construction is held together by metal tabs, bent or twisted to secure. This is the stuff I need.

The electrical connections to the heater elements were push fits, the pulled off with pliers. Take care with this type of heater element, the mica support is fragile.

I needed to take the whole thing apart because the toaster has a central slot, the video has an off-centre slot. While it wasn't possible to bring the toaster fully up to the level of the VHS slot, it could be moved a bit.
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I'm an experimentalist, a scientist and I have a tendency to do things just for the sake of doing them, or to find out what they're like. I don't like stuff that sucks, please show me something that...
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