Junkbot Safari: Motors, Gears, Capacitors and Gravy

Step 6 Further extraction

It is time to retreat to your workshop. Here you will de-solder the parts from the board and crack the case of the CD or floppy drives.

Look closely at the board with Capacitors; after you remove them there might be other things you want for you parts box such as resistors, potentiometers, ferrite beads, inductors, etc, etc, remember this is gravy.

Crack the case of the CD/floppy. most of these will have various tab and slots or screws to remove. As you get the case open you will identify small round objects often with two wires coming off to attach to a board. On one side you should see a shaft and you should be able to spin it. Locate what is mounting the motor and remove it. Again if it is screws, save them! Snip the wires as far from the motor as You can. Now look at the drive. A CD drive is full of gravy: laser, gears, sprockets, belts, rails, etc.; part out what you want.

I like to keep some zipper type bags to collect bunches of material and I prefer the divided containers you can get from the hardware store to sort the different types of components. You will have to decide your own organizational scheme.

Comments

[pryrofreak119]

wats with the gravy

[extracrispy]

watch out cd lasers are infra red ,you won't see anything before or after you go blind!dvd lasers are visible but still use caution.