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Repairing Ipods is easy! You don't need any special tools and parts are easy to come by so why not get yourself a steady second income from refurbishing and selling these things.

As with most small electronic gadgets, ipods will eventually break down on you and when an ipod breaks down out of warranty the owner can either pay a small fortune to have it repaired or they can sell it as faulty on ebay. If you open a new browser window (do it now), open up ebay and do a search for "faulty ipod" you will probably get a couple of hundred results returned of faulty ipods, all selling for between 20 and 30% of their usual second hand value. These are where you are going to pick up a lot of your raw materials.

The best way to start getting an idea of how this works is to find an ipod with a broken screen, find out how much that particular model sells for second hand and stick a bid in for it of around %30 (taking shipping costs into account) of its second hand value (if it was working), you can get an idea of what you will eventually be able to sell for by searching completed listings. If you win then great, if not don't worry because someone else has paid over the odds, you can just go and find another.

Once you have your ipod with a broken screen you will need a new screen to repair it with. You can either buy a new part which can be expensive although you do get a lot of sellers listing new parts on ebay a lot cheaper than list price, or you can look for another faulty ipod of the same model with a working screen. The beauty of this method is that once you have taken the screen of the second ipod you will still be left with other working parts that you can keep for your next repair project.

So how do you change out the screen? Ipods are really easy to dismantle and by going through the process of changing a screen you will see all of the major components and learn how to change out all of them as well.

Get yourself some non marking ipod opening tools which are basically 2 thin spatulas and can be bought online quite cheaply. Use these to pry the top plastic part away from the metal bottom shell. Slide the tools along the whole gap and gradually the two halves will come apart. Be careful when you lift the two halves apart because they are still connected to each other via the battery cable and you don't want to damage this. Now you need to remove the hard drive, which is the large rectangular block right in front of you. It is connected to the plastic half by a ribbon

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