This Black and Decker Firestorm circular saw has been sitting in my pile of collected objects for quite a while. I picked this up from a damaged clearance rack at a hardware store, it was $20 because it didn't come with any accessories. Anyway, I finally decided that I wanted to harvest the motor, gearbox and any switches from within it.
Here is a quick deconstruction, complete with silly captions.
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| Step one: Have this saw |
Time to start removing parts
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| Blade guard off, its getting dangerous! |
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| Mmm, #1 and #2 Phillips screws |
Crack open the shell to reveal...
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| a laughably tiny motor in a plastic sleeve (for girth, I imagine) |
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| Ah! Dangly parts! |
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| What a satisfying Saturday night. |
And thats what inside of a cordless circular saw looks like, a battery terminal, a switch, a motor and a gearbox. Nothing spectacular, but I still like to appreciate the effort put into the design of all these parts. The gearbox in here is destined for great things, but that is a topic for another post. All thats left to do is to separate these parts by category and add them to my parts stash (insert: Muahaha).
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