Having finally managed to get my iPod Classic open, I replaced its aging battery for a spiffy new one. Upon reading the label on the old battery, it said: Do NOT disassemble.
Well, that’s fighting talk where I come from, and if Apple said not to do it, I’m doing it!
Here we have the freshly plucked (well, torn) battery:
The pristine, non-violated, battery.
First I peeled off the yellow tape stuff, this revealed a rather funky little circuit board!
Funky little circuit board thingy
Next, I peeled back it’s silver foil:
Cover your eyes, it's a naked battery!
It’s at this point there was a funny smell, some sort of chemical thing. Meh, doesn’t scare me. You’ll notice some dark marks on the white paper in the photo above. This is some sort of liquid that’s leaking from the injured battery. That does scare me, but luckily I’m too daft to care.
The body of the battery is several layers of ’stuff’ (stop me if I’m getting to technical) which I began to unroll…
Ooh, that's all this then...
Unrolling it was proving to be tricky since it kept wanting to spring back to it’s rolled shape, but also due to the fact that I didn’t want to touch the damn thing as more liquid was leaking from it, the smell was getting worse and now small fragments of black stuff were falling out of it.
BANG! *poof*
It all came to an end when I unrolled it to about half way, it sprang back, crackled, sparked and smoke came out of it. What made me stop was after doing it three times it wouldn’t spark and smoke any more, so I got bored of it.
Several times I’ve looked over my shoulder to see if my bin is in flames, thus far it is not.
And this experiment explains why I’m not allowed to be bored…
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