Disassembly of X-Box Vision Camera

[Reverend Murder]

Tutorial on Disassembly of X-Box 360 Vision Camera

Se7ensins.com or Myself are not responsible if you damage your camera or hurt yourself while doing this. If you live with your parents ask them for permission and help, if your an adult use your head !!






Step 1 - Our Materials

1. X-Box Vision Camera
2. Small Screwdriver set
3. Small scissors
4. Piece of wax paper

Step 2 - Getting to the Screws
Peel off the rubber base and place on wax paper to keep it sticky, than peel off the large Microsoft sticker and place on the wax paper (if you want to put it back) thus revealing 6 screws total




Step 3 - Removing Base Plate
Unscrew the 6 screws and remove the base



Step 4 - Remove the Base Weights



Step 5 - Removing Pivot Base
Unscrew the 2 screws and metal piece to remove pivot base (see above pic)

Step 6 - Removing the Camera Face
Unscrew the lens as far as it will go - **IMPORTANT** take notice to the gap between the lens and the camera nose, you will need to match this in assembly or the focusing will be messed up

At this point you have the lens already unscrewed as far as it will go. Now you will want to look through the gap and find the gray stop that is stopping it from unscrewing (if you are looking at the front of the camera it is on the left side). Once you find it either use a small screwdriver to push the tab in and unscrew it, or what I like to do is put the tab by my thumb and the opposite side at my 1st knuckle of my first finger and squeeze it and turn – you’ll figure it out. – just let the lens hang in there for now.



Step 7 - Removing Front Face and Back of Camera
Use a small screwdriver to pry apart the faces, this takes a little skill to do with out boogering up the edges real bad all I can say is be **CAREFUL**. As you pry along the edges you will hear little snapping noises those are the tabs unlocking. Now pull the faces apart.
If you make some boogers it okay I have a way to fix them as long as you didn’t really scar the edges to bad

**DO NOT TOUCH LENS**



Step 8 - Removing Front Lens from Front Face
If you look at the inside of the front face you will see a little white bump that is the stop, if you pull out and rock it against the bump the lens cylinder should pop out



Step 9 - Protecting Lens
Screw the lens cylinder back into place to stop dust or whatever may make contact with any of the lens



Step 10 - Removing Ball Pivot
Unscrew 2 screws and remove metal piece to release ball pivot, now slide the ball pivot toward you to get it out.

Step 10A
Everything should be loose now, but the ball pivot will not slide off the cord yet because of the white stop on the cord.



Step 11 - Removing Circuit Board
Unscrew the 2 screws holding the board down and pull apart.

Step 12 - Removing Cord from Circuit Board
Pull connector out of the back of the board.



Step 13 - Removing Shrink-wrap
Remove small piece of shrink-wrap by the connector on the cord, that’s where the little scissors come in handy.

Step 14 - Removing Wires from Connector
I like to do this with the tabs facing up **Take note of WIRE ORDER**
From left to right – Thick Black, Black, Green, White, Red
With a little screwdriver lift up the little tabs and pull the wires out



Step 15 - Remove Ball Joint from Cord
Now you can pull the ball joint off of the cable, be careful the connectors at the end of the wires make a tight fit but it will come out.

And your DONE !!



As for the boogers your screwdriver left use a small metal file, like a nail file, and file them off at a shallow angle then round the edges of the plastic to get a clean look



At this point you can follow one of my tutorials and Dye the camera Dip Dying Plastic Parts ; change the LEDs or whatever you want to

Assembly is obviously the reverse of Disassembly

REMEMBER – wire connectors go in one way only and to unscrew lens cylinder before you try to put the front face back on.

once again **BE CAREFUL**

Use this tutorial at your OWN RISK-- Se7ensins or Myself are NOT responsible if you damage your camera or hurt yourself.

If you have any questions, please PM me

Thanks for reading

If you use this - please give Thanks and credit to me

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[mexkan]

nice tut. i like how its put together.

[Reverend Murder]

Quote: Originally Posted by mexkan

nice tut. i like how its put together.

Thanks for reading, im not great with computer software and stuff like that but when it comes to making stuff or taking it apart - thats my forte

[n00bFRAGGER]

Nice tutorial. I have a Vision camera and it serves no purpose for me... perhaps a mod is in order. Next time I'm really bored I'll remember this tutorial.

[Reverend Murder]

Quote: Originally Posted by n00bFRAGGER

Nice tutorial. I have a Vision camera and it serves no purpose for me... perhaps a mod is in order. Next time I'm really bored I'll remember this tutorial.

Thanks for the commemt on the tut - not sure how to take the "when your bored youll remember this tut" but either way thanks for reading - I first did this to make my vision camera match my elite

I wrote this to see what mods may come of it - ive only seen my black camera

[n00bFRAGGER]

Yeah, I dont have time to start case modding right now, but next time I have nothing to do I'll consider cracking open my xbl cam.

[Reverend Murder]

id like to see what you could pull off with the camera

[sigur]

How did you prevent the clear ring around the nose of the camera (The one that the led's shine through) from getting covered by your black dye? I use duplicolor vinyl and fabric spray paint for my accessories to get them to match my elite, but i'm a little apprehensive about trying the camera because i don't want to paint over the clear ring... Is there a way to remove it?

[Reverend Murder]

Quote: Originally Posted by sigur

How did you prevent the clear ring around the nose of the camera (The one that the led's shine through) from getting covered by your black dye? I use duplicolor vinyl and fabric spray paint for my accessories to get them to match my elite, but i'm a little apprehensive about trying the camera because i don't want to paint over the clear ring... Is there a way to remove it?

The clear ring is molded to the inside face of the camera, I would not try to remove it -- I prefer to dip dye things because paint has a tendency to look ghetto

[wanimal]

very nice tut, but i broke my camera just now. unless it is supposed to swivel 360 degrees