Do you take things apart?

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I love tinkering with things, taking them apart, putting them back together, re-painting them...the whole nine yards. My dad was an auto mechanic as well.

You need to watch Deconstructed and How it's Made, they are cool shows.

I was forever dismantling things as a kid, especially mechanical toys. I wanted to see how they worked and then put them back together, not always successfully! These days, however, I instinctively reverse engineer people's jokes instead

I took apart one of my sewing machines so that I could try and fix/tune it as well as give it a fresh paint job.

Of course!

But once I know how the inside works I'm usually content to let it sit without tinkering. What I would prefer to do is build a new one from scratch, so I wasn't constrained to their design choices. Though, occasionally, I find something that is very well refined and optimized for all foreseeable usages. I like those the most.

What bugs me the most is the damn hard plastic shells that come on just about everything that I want to crack open, making it a pain in the ass to examine, much less repair.

And reverse engineering, how fun! That's the first engineering discipline that I can remember honestly tempting me...

Old fashion alarm clocks and anything electrical, as a toddler I took every clock
I get my hands on apart, just for the gears, loved to spin them. I also took a tv
apart while watching a kids show on it, I did this without shorting anything out,
my mom and dad were quite mad, I was only 5 when I did that.
Oh ya, took one of these apart, my mom was very mad of that. I was 3 1/2.

I took apart one of my sewing machines so that I could try and fix/tune it as well as give it a fresh paint job.

I used to take things apart when I was younger to see how they worked.

Now I only take things apart to see if I can fix them.

I like to build things out of Lego, K'Nex (and similar) take them apart and then rebuild them exactly the way I built it previously. I also like to take things apart and put them back together but not neccessarily for fun. Like, when I was a kid, I took apart my laptop's floppy disk drive to remove an object that someone had jammed in there and then put it back together. I had immense fun doing it, but I didn't do it just becuase I felt like it.

I love machanics, but take them apart by visualisation only, not to get in trouble.

Yes, I took things apart when I was a child. Clocks (the kind with gears), push lawn mowers, friction toys and things of that sort.

Once they were apart I was satisfied. I had little interest in putting them back together.

I don't normally take things apart too often as an adult. I generally know how things work, and I still can't be bothered putting them back together.

If there is a problem or upgrade with a computer or something, I do it, but I've lost the case screws to every computer I've ever had.

I get very great job satisfaction from taking broken things apart and fixing them.

I like to take things apart once their broken just to see if I can fix them. Sometimes I can, sometimes, like with my broken xbox 360 that was out of warrenty, I could not. But it was still fun to see how the new one worked based on the insides of the old one.

I take most things apart. I even take clothes apart to see how they are sewn together

I try to control myslef though with thing of any bigger value, it has happened before that I took something apart and couldn't assemble it back

Since twelfth grade, I have been trying to take apart a portable radio shack radio, so I can figure out how radios are made, and what parts are needed to make them, etc.