Repairing wall warts

Chuck, You may not believe it but the best method that I've found to get into wallwarts is to lay them on a hard surface and smack them with a hammer! It's sort of like cracking open walnuts. If you hit it on a seam you can usually pop the seam apart. One of the advantges of doing it this way is that there's no gap to fill such as there would be if you cut it open. It takes a bit of practice to learn how how to hit them but once you learn you can pop the shell apart without damaging anything inside. If you don't trust yourself to break one open then the next best thing is one of the THIN saws made by Exacto. They're about 6 inches long and fit in the large Exacto handle. The nice thing about them is that they have FINE teeth (just right for cutting thin plastic) and the blade is very thin so there's little gap left to fill when you glue the case back together. The saw blade is about 1 1/4" deep and has a backbone on it to keep it stiff. You should be able to find one in any good hobby shop. Joe At 11:07 PM 2/14/06 -0800, you wrote: