Dirty Automatic Card Shuffler Teardown

[@poppypickett1572]

My on button doesn't work. Thanks for the tear down info. I will open it up and try and figure out why the switch is broken. Thanks again.

[@cheric945]

I bought a new one on eBay, and right off the bat the left side doesn’t shuffle. Do you have any idea how to fix this problem?

[@fizzys26]

I only use them for this machine. I wish I could just plug it in!

[@AdlerDavidson]

My motors spin the wrong way and they spit the cards off the shuffler. How do I fix that?

[@monteladow159]

Turn the batteries around, they are in backwards!

[@deo2614]

How hard would it be to add an AC-to-DC Power Adapter to the shown card shuffler? I'm tired of changing batteries. Thanks and keep up the great & entertaining work!

[@NickDrudge]

Thanks! I will certainly try! I've actually had the idea to do that for awhile, but everyone I play cards with thinks I'm crazy and wouldn't want to plug in to shuffle. It can be as easy or as complicated as you want it to be. I, of course, make everything more complicated than it needs to be! If you like living on the edge, it'd be fairly easy to just take a 6 volt or so adapter and alligator clip or solder to the actual battery terminals, negative on the farthest negative battery, and positive on the farthest end positive battery terminal. I'm lazy so I just use a multimeter with the batteries in place to find where the two points reads the full 6 volts and gamble it's correct. You could even open up the unit, and cut the end of the adapter, find positive and negative and solder wire to the same spots described, then make a hole in the back and tie the power adapter's cord in a knot inside the case, so it doesn't get pulled out, then run the rest through the hole, so you have the cord coming out to the adapter. Or, make a hole in the back, install a barrel jack, and solder the connections to the positive and negative as before. Just make sure to remove the batteries before plugging any of this mess into the wall. Or install a switch that goes between battery and wall power, to pick which one to use. This is a massive wall of text, but any one part of it isn't too difficult if you don't mind wasting an afternoon. I take no responsibility for broken things, shocks, fires or so on ;) I've added this to my video ideas board to hopefully make a video so things are more clear than I can describe! Thanks for watching and reading this ramble!

[@poppypickett1572]

If I have more problems with my switch this might be an option. Thanks again.

[@MightyMicrobes-]

My gears all work but my cards just vibrate at the top and dont shuffle half the time. Super annoying.

[@NickDrudge]

Probably the rubber wheel near the edge is losing it's grip. Sometimes you can fix it by using a rubber eraser on it. The problem is they usually have little groves in the rubber piece, and if that is flattened out too much, it just won't work.