Taking Magnets out of a microwave

the first thing you're going to need to get is an old microwave preferably one that doesn't work so you can get it for free you first thing you're going to do is take every screw out of this microwave that you can find on the outside every microwave is a little different you have to look all the way around it to find every one of them and in this case we have a star slotted screw and I don't have a star wrench so I'm actually going to use my cutoff grinder to cut the heads off that we've taken the door off by as far as it'll go until it snaps then it comes right off we've taken the screws completely out of back in the bottom all over the thing now the hood part auto just come right off just like that so let's see what's inside so now let's look at the guts of the microwave here's where it all happens right down here you see the capacitor that's a very dangerous thing to mess with I'm going to show you how to short that out but if you've never done this or at least don't know what you're doing don't mess with it's not worth it and stay away from it but if you know what you're doing you can short it out using a couple screwdrivers on this microwave you can see the capacitor is hooked to the fan housing which was pretty easy to just pull out of there when I mess around with any of that area around the capacitor I always use something like pair of pliers or in this case I have some wire cutters with insulated grips to it just to help prevent getting shocked here's your capacitor the way I short these out is I take two screwdrivers and each terminal and I cross them I touch them now sometimes you'll hear a loud pop but in this case it seems to be already safe but I still don't trust it so I'm not gonna mess with them we'll keep my hands off of it and set it aside I'll show you where the magnets are the magnetron is in this silver box right here we're going to have to take that off and in this case it doesn't look too hard so wherever there's a screw take the screw out it's a nut take a wrench to it now I'm just going to start clipping wires to remove the rest of this stuff to make it easier to get to the magnetron you as you can see I've cleared there from the magnetron and if you look over to the side you can see in there the two magnets and that's what we're going to try to get out to take this off you can see there are screws holding it on each side so we're going to take those off and it should just come right down so what I like to do is put magnetron and of vice vice it down really good to where you can get to those magnets now you're going to take the housing off as you can see there are tabs that secure the housing together so what I like to do is to take some channel locks and put them in there and then I just pull like that and I'll do that all the way around the magnetron casing on each side to pull those tabs out now the next one's a little harder to take out what I like to do is get a screwdriver in here and just start prying till it breaks loose and just kind of go all the way around it there you go this little thing comes out and there you have your other magnet every microwave is different by manufacturer you'll see where this microwave was pretty simple to take apart some are more complexed but now you kind of know the anatomy of a microwave the larger microwaves have larger magnets smaller ones have smaller magnets you

Channel: Phil Crockett

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Length: 7min 26sec (446 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 20 2012