PickVidsBest Repair, teardowns & right to repair Videos
The 80 Repair, teardowns & right to repair videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 26 intermediate, 49 for a general viewer, and 2 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Louis Rossmann, bigclivedotcom, EEVblog.
BOLTR: Juicero, Cold Press Juicer for Rich Weirdos
AvE tears down the Juicero cold-press juicer, examining its heavily machined parts, electronics and the pricey juice packs.
Longer-lasting light bulbs: it was complicated
Technology Connections examines why light bulbs have the lifespans they do, including the real history of the Phoebus cartel.
The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken
Johnny Harris investigates why McDonald's ice cream machines are so often broken, covering the Taylor machines, the repair restrictions on franchisees and the Kytch workaround device.
A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable
Adam Savage and engineer Zach Radding examine Lumafield CT scans of Apple's $130 Thunderbolt 4 cable alongside cheaper USB-C cables.
BOLTR: DYSON HAIR DRYER. Is it WORTH the MONEY?
AvE tears down a roughly $500 Dyson hair dryer, examining how its motor, airflow and electronics fit into a small body.
The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps
Big Clive tears down the Dubai lamp, a Philips LED bulb developed with Dubai's ruler for maximum efficiency and long life.
Tearing Down the Model T of Our Time - Autoline After Hours 284
An Autoline After Hours episode where Sandy Munro discusses his complete teardown of the BMW i3, along with automotive journalists.
This is why we can't have nice things
Veritasium explores planned obsolescence, from the Phoebus lightbulb cartel to printers and phones.
Tesla Model 3: Inside & Out - Autoline After Hours 417
An Autoline After Hours episode with teardown expert Sandy Munro and a panel of auto journalists.
What is Right to Repair? An introduction for curious people.
Louis Rossmann gives a basic, non-technical introduction to right to repair legislation for people new to the issue.
Apple's Independent Repair Program is a useless PR stunt.
Louis Rossmann argues that Apple's Independent Repair Program is a PR stunt that misleads the public and burdens independent repair shops.
EEVblog #186 - Soldering Tutorial Part 3 - Surface Mount
Dave Jones of EEVblog shows hand soldering of surface-mount parts, including drag soldering and tack-and-reflow of 0.5mm fine-pitch ICs, with solder paste and hot air.
How I Upgraded My iPhone Memory 800% - in Shenzhen, China
Scotty Allen of Strange Parts travels through Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei markets and learns to upgrade an iPhone 6s from 16GB to 128GB by swapping its flash chip.
Horrific USB power supply fault. (Electrocution risk.)
Electronics hobbyist bigclivedotcom tears down a cheap USB power supply with a manufacturing fault that carries full mains voltage to the USB ports, showing the risk of electric shock.
TSP #133 - Keysight UXR 110GHz BW, 256GS/s, 10-bit Real-Time Oscilloscope Teardown & Experiments
Shahriar of The Signal Path tears down and experiments with Keysight's UXR real-time oscilloscope, which offers 110GHz bandwidth and 256GS/s sampling, and compares architectures from Keysight, LeCroy and Tektronix.
Why I don't use Apple products
Louis Rossmann, an independent Apple repair shop owner, explains why he does not use Apple products, drawing on his experience of repairing devices he considers designed to fail and hard to fix.
BOLTR: KitchenAid Mixer. SURPRISE!
AvE tears down a high-end KitchenAid stand mixer, looking at its castings, large DC motor and gear train.
Reballing flip chip GPUs is BULLSHIT - the truth about dead laptop GPUs & repairing them.
Louis Rossmann argues that reballing flip-chip GPUs is not a real fix for dead laptop GPUs.
We need to talk about failing keyboards on these new Macbooks.
Louis Rossmann discusses failing keyboards on newer MacBooks, comparing a Dell keyboard repair with an Apple keyboard repair and explaining why Apple's design is costly and hard to fix.
Professional SMT Soldering: Hand Soldering Techniques - Surface Mount
A three-minute demonstration of professional hand-soldering techniques for multi-lead surface mount parts, to IPC class 3 criteria.
The horrible truth about Apple's repeated engineering failures.
Louis Rossmann, a Macbook repair shop owner, goes through a long list of Apple hardware engineering failures, from GPU defects to keyboards and repair practices.
Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly
A Motherboard documentary episode from Nebraska about farmers and mechanics fighting manufacturers like John Deere over access to the diagnostic software needed to repair modern tractors.
Update on my Brain Injury & the Future of Strange Parts
An update from the Strange Parts YouTuber on his recovery from a brain injury caused by a metal pipe while filming, and his plans for the channel.
Demo and teardown of an X-ray fluorescence gun (measures chemical composition)
Ben Krasnow of Applied Science demonstrates an X-ray fluorescence gun that measures chemical composition, tears it down, analyzes its failure, and discusses a new XRF technology appearing on eBay.