9 Dec
2004
9 Dec
'04
1:29 a.m.
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Next step is to crack it open. Anyone know a good way
to open up these
permanently sealed transformers?
I've had reasonable luck at clean breaks by laying it on it's
edge (edge meaning along the glue seam), placing something
like a butter knife (putty knife, etc) and applying pressure
with a small hammer, in the manner of pressure-chipping stone
knives. A series of little >crack< to the glue seam for the
entire circumference, once or twice around.
Or you can sometimes just wail on it like craking a nut. Seriously.