- Now I'm about to take apart and fix
my DreamStation One here.
And I'm happy for you guys to come along for the ride,
but I do wanna make one thing really clear,
and that is, I am not recommending this to you.
In fact, I kind of recommend that you don't follow
any of the stuff I say on my YouTube channel, all right.
You got your doctors, you got your consultants.
Go listen to them, not some bearded schmuck on YouTube.
All right, but if you are interested
and you wanna see what's inside a DreamStation One,
you wanna check out the foam and that sort of thing
by all means, you're welcome to watch.
Cheers.
♪ Hello darkness my old friend ♪
♪ I've come in to talk with you again ♪
All right, let's take this apart.
One screw,
two screw.
And what you can do is
because they're a little bit hard to get to
you kind of just pinch these side bits in, so.
All right, once you've got that off,
this whole top section sort of pulls off.
It can just take a little bit of,
I guess it's not too hard to pull off,
but you've got to give it a little bit of a
sort of quick (indistinct),
so I just sort of pull it off like that.
So these parts here sort of click in.
All right, now we'll take off the circuit board,
just two screws, T3 again.
One screw and this one.
And now this section here at the front
is just like it just slots in.
So you can literally just lift it up
and it's connected here.
You can take that part off, it's quite easy.
You just sort of flip up this little part at the front here
and take off, and then this part just sort of lifts up,
swing it round to the back.
And you've just got your two connectors here.
So there's one, boop,
boop.
And you can just put that,
you can just put that part then to the side.
All right, so here's our casing
and this is the foam section,
this is the casing, here's your turbine.
I'll take it apart and show it,
but there's your turbine in there.
Bringing the air in, pushing it out.
And then the air runs through this foam section
into the actual turbine, which is the big problem.
Okay, let's do it.
So you just got a whole bunch of screws here,
basically everywhere where you see metal,
but we'll take them all out.
All right, so this is the casing.
There's our foam.
I'm just gonna take off these four screws here,
which will enable us to get to the motor.
Think I'll just provide you a new casing with something,
obviously no death foam in it.
Okay, so that section now just pops off.
It's just sort of, there we go.
So here's your turbine.
It sits in this little section here.
I'm gonna take it out
because I'm gonna do some operating on this
to get the foam out and show you.
So there is essentially your CPAP.
That is what your CPAP is.
So that basically is a fan.
Must have a bearing in it and just spins around
and then shoots out the air through this end.
Now the problem is, here's the big problem,
where this sits in,
you can see there's this little area
so the air comes in through here.
This is, you can see, I can get my finger through there,
air comes in through here into the turbine
and then shoots out this end.
So it draws in through there and shoots it out.
And unfortunately, just because it's a pretty bad design,
the air actually travels through this filter material.
And then through here, yeah, okay?
So in through there, through there,
and then out through there,
you can see the filter material in there.
And this casing is like glued shut.
If I had like four screws in here,
you'd literally be able to pull off the top,
take the foam out and you're done,
but it's literally welded shut, really hard.
It's super heavy-duty glue.
And this casing, like plastic, is thick.
You can see how thick it is, it's probably two mil thick,
so it's really hard to get into.
But I'm just gonna cut a hole here and then pull it out
and then I'll cut another one here as well and pull it out.
All right, so my plan is gonna be to cut a hole in here,
pull out the foam.
And this section here is a lot harder
only because it has this little part on it
and that actually runs down into the foam.
So I'm gonna have to come out around that part
and then be able to take that whole section off
and then I'll be able to pull out the foam.
All right, let's do it.
So this is just a little, a little surgery tool.
And for all you young people out there,
make sure you always use protection, all right?
All right.
There we go.
One side out.
putting them back on and just see how that works
and then I'll let you know.
So I've just got some, some sandpaper here
that I've just been using just to
get rid of any sort of fine bits of plastic.
There's just a few little bits there that are gone.
So you just wanna make sure there's no, you know,
little bits of plastic that are gonna come off,
make sure it's nice and clean.
All right, let's turn her on.
All right, so what you might want to do
is you might just want to run some air
through it to begin with,
just to pump out if there's any stuff in there.
So maybe leave it running for a good couple of hours.
And then yeah, I'm gonna put the mask on now
and see how it goes.
All right, so that's it.
Surgery has gone extremely well.
The DreamStation that lives to breathe another night.