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Dollar Store USB Car Charger Teardown

Dollar Store USB Car Charger Teardown (with Fire!)

https://youtu.be/4Ij9tZRl1Mo USB Car Charger from the dollar store. What's inside? Take a look! Also there is fire. Much fire!
Glass Break Detector Teardown

Glass Break Detector Teardown

https://youtu.be/O1p11HI5arU Teardown of a fairly old Ademco 5852 Glass Break Detector and Transmitter. Designed so if someone shatters a window, it trips the alarm.
Ademco 5890PI Passive Infared Detector and Transmitter Teardown

Ademco 5890PI Passive Infared Detector and Transmitter Teardown

https://youtu.be/UGZXnB81GX4 Passive Infrared Detectors are a fairly common home security device that usually just sit on a wall and blink red when you walk by. This is an older model, and it's fairly interesting to see how complicated what…
Satellite Power Inserter Teardown

Satellite Power Inserter Teardown

https://youtu.be/XBADYOrKOZk Teardown of a device that adds power to coax that goes to a satellite dish on your house. This is a DirectTV model, but the internals are very generic.
Aux to Cassette Adapter Teardown and Explanation

Aux to Cassette Adapter Teardown and Explanation

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWV02B-bIpk Those little car cassette adapters are and were invaluable to people wanting something other than a cassette player in their car without the cost of upgrading the radio are deceivingly…
Opening Pokémon TCG Packs - Ultra Rare Full Art Etched Holo!

Opening Pokémon TCG Packs – Ultra Rare Full Art Etched Holo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zph_DLmHOgs I have a bunch of packs to open! Let's find out what I pulled! A break from the norm, just as an update as things settle into place.
Screw Nubbin Complication

Screw Nubbin Complication

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fKhTgnDFVk My solution to annoying security screws. Yes there is an edit in it, but this isn't trickery, it's legit.
Dead Hard Drives - Fixing a Stuck Head

Dead Hard Drives – Fixing a Stuck Head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfDecirua_0 I had a stack of drives, many dead, and experimented in making them work again.
Opening Cassette Tray on an SAE C102

Opening Cassette Tray on an SAE C102

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzftgmmEAXw How to open up an SAE C102 Cassette deck. Useful if you have a cassette stuck in it. This isn't a full belt replacement tutorial, but these steps are a necessary part in getting to the belts, so…
Simple Air Compressor Teardown

Simple Air Compressor Teardown

  It's always fun to do teardowns, even if it doesn't end up as crazy complicated as you want.

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