Hey I'm Justin welcome back to make build modify. Did you know that there's
good project materials inside of an old big-screen TV? Let me show you.
There's some good plastic in the front screen here and I think there might be
some other layers. I have a video where I used some layers from a plasma screen to
make a lampshade for one of my spiral lamps and there's a potentially a first
surface mirror in here. I think I would imagine there is. I'm curious to see and
I've used those to make kaleidoscopes and there's some other plastic and stuff
that's reusable. Possibly some speakers too.
whoo so that that's the first service mirror. I don't know if you could see it in frame
but that's a very nice mirror. So that's awesome I was hoping for that. You got a
couple speakers and we'll go over this cowling in a little bit and I see a
really cool lens and maybe a good bulb here. To try to get this out without
breaking it. All right let's see if this slips out oh yeah it will but these guys
are in the way.
Whoa whoa that is super nice look it's totally different color on the backside.
This looks like it might be a fan like a blower motor of some sort. Yeah I was
totally wrong this is the base speaker.
That's kind of cool. Looks like a little projector of some sort. That's pretty
cool it's got like a big ol lens here small in there and it looks like a prism
probably right here. So that might be fun to play around with. Okay let me spin
this around and show you what's on the back. So the other thing I would say to
save here is any of your wire. If you have any kind of projects where you use
small wire this is great stock. I usually save we chunk like that throw it in my
wire bin. That's a good fan right here. Little fan. Okay here's the front and
this I think is a Fresnel lens. I don't know if there's more than one layer here
we'll see when I get these clamps off. But I can tell I can see the radial
lines in this. So this would be good for like a solar furnace project or
something like that. It looks like we got a couple good speakers. A little
rectangular speaker, another one. Lets see if we get some of these screws out.
Yeah there's more than one layer. Let's see what happens here. Okay, so that is
the Fresnel lens and it's thick it's about an eighth of an inch thick. That's
the thickest one I've ever seen and this is the forward-most portion and it's got
maybe like a polarizer on it. It's kind of really weird shape and I don't know if you can see
that. It's got some really weird lines in it. All right let's go over what we
salvaged. We got a couple little rectangular speakers. We got a kind of a bass speaker.
A hole bunch of little screws in a fan. This really cool little lens. It does
some crazy stuff. Before you go I wanted to show you this little section that I
pulled out of the bottom of the TV. I was getting rid of those components and
I was got curious to see what was inside of the projection portion of the TV and
you can see there's like these little reflective surfaces that have coatings
on them and there's little lenses. Really high-quality super nice lenses.
Wow, little treasure trove! Anyway I hope
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