- Aug 18, 2003
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OK Folks, hopefully there's some gear heads out there who can help me out.
I'm involved in running a small robotics club here at school, and we're low on parts (and funding). SO, I'm planning a trip to the local auto-salvage yard to rip some parts out of forsaken automobiles.
Now, some things are obvious.....Windshield Wiper motors, power door motors, simple headlight assemblies, maybe some car batteries or coil packs....all easily enough pried out of a wreck and can be used readily.
Now, here's my question....
"What else of electronic or simple mechanical value could I salvage from a wreck?" I'm curious about how I might take the important parts of Power Door Locks (the switch asembly and the locking mechanisms themselves), what might be some useful portions of the fuse box and dash pannel controls that can be easily removed, parts of the electrical system from which some nice capacitors or other nifty electronic components might be scavenged.
I'm curious how one might go about getting the rollers from a mini-van door....and some simple tip on how to get some of the nice fans and belt drivers out (the compressor from the brake systems could be nice), mabye some tips on how to get the whole hydrolics system off of a car with disc-brakes. Common hiding places for vehntilation components too (again, fans, compressors and the like). Places where there's a lot of wire I can rip out is good to know too (door are always lovely, as are steering columns). Common locations of positional selector switches and the like.....
Anything easily removed from a common make/model with a screw-driver, torque wrench, hack-saw and crow bar.....I want to know about.
Essentally, if I'm going to pay $30 to get in, I want to take as much out as I can. If I can scavenge sonar assemblies from broken old cameras I figure there's got to be plenty of stuff I can steal from a car.
I'm fairly familiar with auto's, but most of the time I google the repair and then do it. So if you generally give me a description of where to find everything I need to rip out on the terminating ends (IE if I can just rip out certian things and then piece the wires back later), I'm good. Or point me to where to go.....
-Thanks!
They give IST kiddies multimillion dollar buildings and the engineers have to go scrapyard diving.......what has the world come too?
I'm involved in running a small robotics club here at school, and we're low on parts (and funding). SO, I'm planning a trip to the local auto-salvage yard to rip some parts out of forsaken automobiles.
Now, some things are obvious.....Windshield Wiper motors, power door motors, simple headlight assemblies, maybe some car batteries or coil packs....all easily enough pried out of a wreck and can be used readily.
Now, here's my question....
"What else of electronic or simple mechanical value could I salvage from a wreck?" I'm curious about how I might take the important parts of Power Door Locks (the switch asembly and the locking mechanisms themselves), what might be some useful portions of the fuse box and dash pannel controls that can be easily removed, parts of the electrical system from which some nice capacitors or other nifty electronic components might be scavenged.
I'm curious how one might go about getting the rollers from a mini-van door....and some simple tip on how to get some of the nice fans and belt drivers out (the compressor from the brake systems could be nice), mabye some tips on how to get the whole hydrolics system off of a car with disc-brakes. Common hiding places for vehntilation components too (again, fans, compressors and the like). Places where there's a lot of wire I can rip out is good to know too (door are always lovely, as are steering columns). Common locations of positional selector switches and the like.....
Anything easily removed from a common make/model with a screw-driver, torque wrench, hack-saw and crow bar.....I want to know about.
Essentally, if I'm going to pay $30 to get in, I want to take as much out as I can. If I can scavenge sonar assemblies from broken old cameras I figure there's got to be plenty of stuff I can steal from a car.
I'm fairly familiar with auto's, but most of the time I google the repair and then do it. So if you generally give me a description of where to find everything I need to rip out on the terminating ends (IE if I can just rip out certian things and then piece the wires back later), I'm good. Or point me to where to go.....
-Thanks!
They give IST kiddies multimillion dollar buildings and the engineers have to go scrapyard diving.......what has the world come too?