Class exercise: product disassembly

In class we took apart some products. Our group did a toaster. It took like 50 minutes to take apart, although we had to break a bunch of stuff to do so, so trying to assemble it from the original parts would be pretty damn hard.

Using a drill to make a hole bigger to remove a screw. What? You never had to that? Well really you should only need the one screwdriver. All the holes and screws should be the same. Get on to that Breville!

ACTION SHOT!!! also the removal of the outer Al shell from the insides

Removing the heating element sub assy and the PCB's.

Welp, that was fun!

After taking it apart we looked at the different materials used in the product.

Two bad screws. Note they require different tools to remove, one is a Phillips the other is just lame.

Aluminium

PP

Nylon

Real Steel

I dunno

ABS

Mica, for the heat protections man!

PCB's having a good time

After that we looked at ways we could improves its disassembly, repair and durability. We said that the electronic components could be put together, then they could be easily accessed for repair, upgrade, disassembly. The steel parts on the Al shell could be made from the Al shell so less parts. Using the same screws for the whole thing. Make the heating elements easy to remove for cleaning and repair.