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What's Inside a Fax Machine? -- The Electronics Inside 13

 

 

Fax Machines, are they confined to history? Are they a relic of an earlier time? What electronic trickery did these classic icons have?

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  • I'm curious so I thought I would ask a question.

     

    I got the impression, at the start of your tear down that you knew what screws to tackle first. Now my tears downs are a guess and by gollies, I got it right. Did you have an assemble manual that suggested the order for screw removal to accomplish the task?

     

    Not that it is a bad thing. It makes for a much easier flow than guessing what screw is next.

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  • I'm curious so I thought I would ask a question.

     

    I got the impression, at the start of your tear down that you knew what screws to tackle first. Now my tears downs are a guess and by gollies, I got it right. Did you have an assemble manual that suggested the order for screw removal to accomplish the task?

     

    Not that it is a bad thing. It makes for a much easier flow than guessing what screw is next.

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  • in reply to colporteur

    Great question!

     

    I try my best to research every device I tear down, so I am not totally clueless when something comes up inside. Sometimes that will be a service manual that clears it up completely, sometimes I'm not so lucky. Most of the time, things are reasonably straight forward, and you can have a good guess based on what they look like.

     

    There have been a few challenging screws and clips along the way - the Dyson 360 eye, and the 90s video camera from Sony are two notable "hard work" episodes.

     

    The final thing to remember is the power of the edit. If there is 20 minutes of me searching for the last screw, it just gets cut... The time lapses that get used on social media slots normally betray this if you look carefully!

  • in reply to a531016

    Awe yes the power of the edit. I realize there is some of that going on to produce the videos. I also figured maybe you had your hands on the assemble drawings. I know myself, any device I'm trying to take apart, I spend some time turning it over in my hands trying to figure the easiest way to disassemble. I didn't see that hesitation in your video, therefore figure, he has a tear down manual.

     

    I wrote a story for a friend, more like an instruction set, to install a CD ROM in a Linux computer. This was long before there were drivers and support. I staged the instruction like the script for a 30 minute, do it yourself build a piece of furniture television show. My friend is a friend of wood. The host would say, now we put the drive into the computer and then break for commercial. During the commercial a host of helpers would do the work that would take longer than the 30 second commercial to complete but be edited to look like it was not complex. In 30 minutes you had a working CD ROM.

     

    In actual fact the process takes much longer, like building furniture. The viewer after watching the 30min show thinks, hey I can do that.

     

    I enjoy your tear downs productions. You mention in this video "I might do something with that." Is there a follow-up set, that takes a part to another video of building something?