At 10:42 AM 7/20/2012, Robert Lynn wrote:
The true test is how many parts remain on the bench after reassembly.
There are often parts left. No, the true test is if the thing still works.
(Many screws are redundant.)
(Yes, alternate assembly can be interesting, but pretty advanced for
a subteen. Sometimes things are designed for it. You can often take a
refrigerator door off the refrigerator and reassemble it on the
opposite side. It's been designed for that. Handy.)
Lately, what I've taken apart for alternate usage are smoke detectors
with an Am-241 source. Just two of them, the second because I lost
the little radioactive button from the first, somewhere in this apartment.
And I've lost other things even more important.
So the next thing to take apart and put together is this apartment.
On 20 July 2012 14:52, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
From Abd,
...
> When I was a kid, I took lots of things apart and looked at how
> they were put together. Sometimes I even managed to put them
> back together.
>
> I still take things apart and look at how they are put together.
>
> And sometimes I put things together.
Indeed, taking things apart can be fun and educational.
However, the real test is whether one can put it back together again.
And if that can be accomplilshed... which is no easy feat...
(...having failed many times in the attempt!) the next stept would be
to see if it's possible to reassemble it in a different but equally
interesting way.
Regards
Steven Vincent Johnson
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