On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:54:53 -0600
 John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
  He would bring this bad
 part -- a capacitor, a pot, a transistor, an IC, or whatever -- over
 to the vise and lay it on the anvil part. Then he would calmly,
 methodically beat it with a hammer until the smallest remaining part
 was indistinguishable from the dust on the floor. 
 This shows how to fix a
unfixable camera lens that way:
 
http://www.hermes.net.au/bayling/repair.html 
  I did something similar to a call phone that didn't quite survive a 3'
fall. [1]
  -spc (Finally have a cell phone that's nothing more than a call phone)
[1]