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From: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: opening Mac SE case (how?)
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Date: 7 Dec 90 02:59:02 GMT
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In article <267@karp.albany.edu> houch@karp.albany.edu.UUCP (Joseph Houghtaling) writes:
>
>Oh for heaven's sake don't shake your Mac over a bed!!!!!!
>...fer
>Crisake _buy_one_ from MacConnection.  They sell a Torx key, a static wrist
>...
>So go out and get yourself a case spreader and save your Mac!!!
>
Don't get all excitied, Joe... A case spreader is nice if you have one, but
I've used the "shake it open" method for four years now, and haven't broken
my or anyone else's Mac yet.

An additional note for the original poster: PATIENCE is key when working
on the innards of a Mac. If something doesn't come open/apart/away on the
first or second or third try, don't start yanking... instead, take a closer
look and see if something else is in the way, or if it's a keyed connector,
or if you're pulling in the wrong direction.

This is particularly true of the power cable, which has a key that isn't
obvious at first glance. The most spectacular MacAccident I've seen was
when a friend got mad at the power cable for being so ornery and gave it
a good hard tug--the cable didn't come out, but his hand flew into the
neck of the CRT and broke it right off, much to the detriment of the video
quality. :-)



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