hello and welcome today I'm going to show you how to disassemble a dvd-rw to make a laser pointer note this has to be a dvd-rw you cannot use a dvd-r a DVD player pierce to anything like that has to be a dvd-rw and now i know i've done this video before but i want to show you in HD and a lot less edits so first off we're going to take the four screws out button and once we've done that we need to take a pin or a paperclip push it in here to release the drive once the drive is released you need to pull it out put two thumbs underneath it at the bottom and push it upwards and out that brings it off so we can take off the faceplate the next thing you want to do is go to the clips either side there's one on the left one on the right and one on the bottom now you need something more than your thumb to press these in as I'm finding out at the moment so I'll go get a flat blade screwdriver like this one so get ones either side that's the left the bottom is more difficult you need to actually remove the bottom plate and the right at this point the bottom plate will just lift off like so this releases the bottom clip and allows the face plate just to come off we now have the naked DVD burner as it will lift out the other side of the case like so and now we have it free we can see the laser assembly and the drive assembly the drive assembly all have fun to play with doesn't have a laser in it so what we'll do we'll take these screws and we need to remove the rails the laser assembly rides on once you've done that we take the rails out and we'd remove them from the laser assembly now we need to take out that ribbon cable there's no need to go for the clips you can just pull it out once we've done that we're done with the rest of the DVD burner and we have just the laser assembly to play with so I'll zoom my camera in like so so you can get a better look at it and here we are the laser assembly you may think the laser is on top but it is not laser is in fact underneath the copper bit on the bottom so it's not there it's underneath here what we want to do is take a micro screwdriver and do any screw you find so first we go for the one with the white plastic on it need to make sure you get the right size screwdriver for this so I'm chopping to a smaller odda now now we can now remove the screw this gives me a point in which I can attack the copper as the screws that are holding down the copper have solder in them and I could remove it but there's no point so what I'll do I'll take a flat blade screwdriver and I'll prise the copper off now be careful not to damage the laser diodes although damaging the optics won't do anything this DVD burner is dead in the first place and you want to prise these copper open we're then going to take some wire cutters and chop off the bits around the screws this will completely release the copper so we can get and delete it now the copper is thin so don't worry about your wire cutters and we have here two laser diodes some focusing optics which just pop comes out like that and a whole lot of glue that needs to be removed so we can see our two laser diodes there is one just here and one here one of these is red one of these is infrared I don't know which at this moment in time but all we need to do is remove them from the plastic and we'll need to remove them from his case so to get them out first you need to snip the ribbon cables holding them in will then take a small screwdriver or a cent bunch and begin to prise them out now you need to remove the glue with this screwdriver that's literally just scraping away at it and eventually when you removed enough glue you'll get a hold on the actual case of the laser diode and you'll be able to get a screwdriver in and just pop it out like so and the way it went so don't lose it don't let it get away as what like I did and they need to go for you the diode and to do this I remove the plastic around it with a pair of wire cutters again this just gets better access to the diode and will then need to remove the glue again same procedure use a screwdriver and pry it out from underneath and it just pops off just like that so thank you for watching and don't forget to subscribe in the next few weeks I'll show you how to make a diode driver for both this and the diode we took from the HD DVD