[rememberthisusername]

I've always seen this as being listed as an ISTP thing although I've always done it and I have high Ne. I guess I did used to do it a lot more as a kid than I do now though. Both my current phone and iPod bare scars from disassemblance

Gotta love robot building too!

[Fine Shrine]

If the thought hits me, I'll be at least tempted to do so. I've done that with my Nintendo DS only since it's old and i wouldn't lose much if i messed it up.

[Ecky]

Yep. Everything must come apart!

[Protagoras]

No, that's the difference between me and them.
They deconstruct things, I deconstruct ideas.

[Sleeve Of Wizard]

I took apart an old hard drive a year or two ago. I still take things apart whenever I can. I always figured I have well developed Sensing since I played with K'Nex too much as a kid, I always saw Lego as a bit boring and rigid/limiting (I even came second in a K'Nex engineering contest ). We're often called "The Architect", so perhaps the need to take things apart comes from the need to understand how it works and then rebuild it. I sometimes would like to take everything apart just to get a particular part of it out, then integrate into into something else to improve it.

I won't lie, I've had my suspicions about being an ISTP, despite the fact that my N score has never dipped below 70% on the numurous sites I've tested on. Everytime I'm sure it will tell me I'm an INFP, ISTP or ENTP, it always scores me an INTP, no matter where I test. It's the Ti and Se for ISTP's that make the process different from INTP's. Just so you know, I don't know a huge amount about ISTP's, so I'm just working this out as I think about it. I would say that ISTP's see taking things apart as a learning process and INTP's see it as a discovery/clarification process in order to create change. ISTP's take it as they see it, likely without much visualization beforehand of what the inside might look like, this could be the reason why they open things up. As an INTP, we're more prone to think about all the possiblities of how something might work on the inside (Ne), then take it apart (Ti) to see if we're right.

I could go further and suggest that INTP's see things on two layers, the whole object and the seperate pieces. We're curious as to how the seperate pieces work together to create the whole object (we do this with people too), so we see the inside parts as a deeper level to explore. ISTP's see the object as always lots of parts, so to use the object they must see all of it's parts to fully understand how it must be used or practically applied. *flash of insight* ISTP's - do it for practical reasons. INTP's- do it for deeper analysis. Should have just said that in the first place

Or maybe I'm completely wrong. The middle paragraph doesn't seem to get any kind of point across, but meh.

[Thu]

As a kid I liked disassembling TV remotes and modelcars (and reassembling them in a new manner)..I don't know when I stopped this, though..I mean, I'd like to take things apart but it doesn't occur to me anymore normally...

[pie]

some things, but not everything. I don't want to be left with a bunch of parts that don't go back together because in my stupidity I broke something or forgot which piece goes where. (my memory for that sort of thing is not great.) I also don't want to void any warranties. if it's already broken and doesn't seem hazardous, sure I'll take it apart just to find out how such things are put together. if it can be fixed, great.

[SomeWeirdGuy]

We had this contest to see who could reassemble a computer tower and boot the computer with no flaws. My team came second, and that was only because I put the fucking hard drive in the wrong way around. We would have beat the first place team by at least 1 and a half minutes if it wasn't for that

I've done this a lot of times with guns (airsoft and such, Canada has very strict gun laws). However, since I invest so much money in them, I rarely do this in case it gets screwed up.

[cdnwolverine]

I like taking things apart, but it's hard to do that these days; everything is so tiny, fragile or sealed.

Or expensive.

I bought a doodad that was supposed to let you mount your Xbox 360 hard drive on your Windows PC. I fried my 360 hard drive. Those things are NOT cheap to replace.

I like reading gadget tear-downs, So while I enjoy taking things apart, I like to have working things more.

[WhereverIMayRoam]

some things, but not everything. I don't want to be left with a bunch of parts that don't go back together because in my stupidity I broke something or forgot which piece goes where. (my memory for that sort of thing is not great.) I also don't want to void any warranties. if it's already broken and doesn't seem hazardous, sure I'll take it apart just to find out how such things are put together. if it can be fixed, great.

When I was a kid I was like this too, I only messed with old gadgets or appliances. I was afraid I'd get in trouble with my mom if I tore a new thing apart and couldn't put it back together.

But even with broken devices my mom got irritated with me because very seldom did I put the devices back to the way they were before I took them apart. My excitement was only in the destruction and not the reconstruction, I was too lazy with the follow through . In the end a normal looking radio would look like a surgery patient that was abandoned in the middle of an operation.