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The quickest way to find disassembly information for a device is often to feed the device make and model into your favourite search engine, appended with "disassembly". But the results will be of variable quality and usefulness. The following sites will often figure in the search results and may give some of the higher quality information.

  • The espares Advice Centre contains hundreds of simple diagnostic and repair guides and videos, as well a large collection of manuals, focused on domestic, kitchen and garden tools and appliances. There's a search box in which you can type "What's wrong with your appliance", or you can select the type of your appliance from a drop-down list and browse the avalable resources.
  • Bad Caps Forum is a place to get help for suspected bad electrolytic capacitors.
  • Camera Repair Flickr Pool is a pool on Flickr with photos of camera designs, including digital cameras.
  • Electronics Repair presents tips and guides by Jestine Yong (and his friends around the world) to repair load of electronics products. Super useful.
  • Fixit Club consists of simple instructions and tips on troubleshooting and repairing household things that break by best-selling “How Does it Work?” author Dan Ramsey.
  • FixYa is building a crowdsourced database of help queries and personalised answers.
  • iFixit makes it easy to fix things with online step-by-step repair guides, troubleshooting tips, and a thriving community of repair technicians who want to help.
  • Lowend Mac proposes we use “Apple gear as long as it helps you remain productive and meets your needs, upgrading only as necessary” and helps maintain and use older kit for longer.
  • Powerbook Medic is an online library of repair videos mostly of Apple products.
  • Reddit’s Computer Technicians is for people who are repair professionals or aspire to be. “End users” are encouraged to use /r/techsupport
  • Repairs Universe video library has a growing number of videos of smartphone and tablet repairs and teardowns.
  • sci.electronics.repair FAQ is a comprehensive historical archive of tips and guides on repairing many kinds of consumer electronics.