Singer Stylist 534 sewing machine

Hey, look, it's another sewing machine that didn't want to come apart. I'll get through this quickly since there's not much to say about it.

This looks like an older model, based on the font styles and amount of metal used in its construction.

Taking the panels off reveals the usual selection of fasteners that won't unscrew.

The underside of the top panel. That semicircle piece took a lot of effort to remove, probably more effort than it will ever be worth.

The parts haul was basically some circle things and some unusual machine screws, some of the few that would come loose.

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Since I ran through that so quickly, I'll add a bit of a bonus entry here at the end. I keep my large plastic parts, such as appliance bodies and vacuum handles, in a clothes hamper. For most of these big pieces, I'm only interested in keeping parts of them like large flat areas, or certain shapes, but I haven't gotten around to cutting off the pieces I want and tossing the rest. A few weeks ago, I ran out of room in the hamper, so it was time to cull through the collection.

I decided to just throw these away. Looking over them, I really couldn't envision what I would ever do with them.

I kept all the stuff in these two groups. That's not to say I want the whole of each piece, it's just that it's easier to keep these whole for now.

This is the group of parts that I chopped up. See how bulky all this is?

This is what I reduced it down to. Between the reductions and placing the remaining parts back in the hamper carefuly, I now have plenty of room for more.

Seville Classics tower fan

No entry last week due to computer problems. Fortunately, it wasn't as expensive a fix as the new motherboard a couple months ago, but then again, I didn't end up with any broken parts to scrap this time either.

On with the show, then. This disassembly was somewhat rushed, so it's not quite as thorough as usual. I had spent much of the night grabbing the three printers, so by the time I got to this, it was already very early Wednesday morning. Heavy trash comes around 5 or 6 n the morning, and I wanted the carcass of the fan out of my apartment in time for them to pick it up, so I had to hurry. If this had been a printer or something else with a lot of parts and entertainment value, I'd have just waited until Friday night to put in the trash, but I was already trying to find room for three printers and a vacuum cleaner as it was, so the fan was low on my priority list.

This is another one of those appliances that I wouldn't have even bothered with if it hadn't been in a pile right outside my apartment. There's never a lot of parts in a fan (i've taken several kinds apart), and less I'm interested in, but this one looked like it had a somewhat complicated control panel, so what the hell.

Here's a better shot of the controls. At this point, I could already tell that there would be some LEDs, and I was hoping those buttons would be seperate.

Well, the buttons were on a sprue, but that's OK, at least they're all together when I need them. The LEDs were too close to the circuit board, so I couldn't remve them without tearing them up. This is basically the extent of my taking this fan apart. I could have busted into the bottom, but there's nothing in the oscillating mechanism that I wanted.

And here's a shot of the fan blades, or whatever they would be called. I though briefly about saving it, but couldn't justify it.

The trophy pile is pretty meager, but the parts themselves are unique, so that's something.