Washing Machines, Microwaves And CRT's

Over the past 2 or so years, I have slowly accumulated a large collection of electric appliances that I intend to gut for parts. But as the past 2 years have been so busy with college, exams and other projects, I never got round to taking the devices apart. Now that the lab is in order, over Christmas I finally got down to extracting what I needed and getting rid of all thew scrap metal cases which of course, increased storage space again in the lab.

This mass tech genocide involved 3 microwaves, 2 CRT TV's and even 2 whole washing machines. I also took this time to desolder the flyback transformers and other useful components from the CRT circuit boards I obtained many years ago; actually if you scroll back enough through this blog you will find the post where I obtain them =).

So many more useful parts were obtained from these devices: 2 giant AC motors, flyback transformers, relays, synchronous motors, capacitors, tons of reusable wiring and of course, some nice juicy microwave oven transformers! Who's ready for some more high voltage fun?