Brilliant. Do I _HATE_ things that are deliberately hard to repair In many case it's possible to modify the design so that it is held together with screws. If you do this, make sure there's no way the new screws could become live if something comes loose inside (perhaps use nylon screws, or thead them into plastic rods joining the 2 parts of the case). It makes future repairs a lot easier. -tony

to be been glue I measuring on the get them to tiny a bit I tried to pry mine open, but it seemed that if I kept going I would end up damaging it more than I would like. Do you have a picture of the opened casing I could see? That would help me to see how best to open it. Thanks Rob

open it. was them Yes, I know. And I also know that it is pretty easy to make a new one with a wall wart and a connector from Maplin, but I would like to retain the originality if at all possible, and they are not quite so easy to find these days. Regards Rob

open it. depending on way point ones that Thanks very much for this. Interesting that there is a fuse inside. You would think the casing would be designed to allow the fuse to be replaced somehow. Regards Rob

was bad day of get single from it replacable. if the I had another go today, but I fail to see how you managed to pry this thing apart without causing much more damage than appears in your photo. What kind of tool did you use? Regards Rob

If possible you want to squeeze the 'inner member' of the joint. So what I do is put the jaws of the vice just to one side of the seam and squeeze, and if that doesn't help then turn the whole thing over and sqeeze on the other side of the seam. Or the other old trick for linear PSU bricks (again, don't try it with SMPSUs) -- hold the cables about 2' from the unit and swing it round so that it hits the bench or floor. That often cracks them open with suprisingly little damage. Oh for the days when we had screws holding such things together! -tony

Stuff sometimes looks better in a photo than it does in real life. There are all sorts of nicks and gouges and the two halves don't mate up anything like as well as they originally did. It's a long time since I originally opened it so I don't remember exactly what I used. Probably jewellers screwdrivers initially, slightly larger flat-bladed screwdrivers, pen knife, an old scissors, blunt old cutlery knives, that sort of thing. Unfortunately, there is a small step at the seam so it is not really possible to cut along it with a sharp blade without cutting through part of the case too. Also, the glue seemed to be nearly as hard as the case material and that didn't help either. I do remember that it was very difficult to open and took a long time over more than one sitting. I think I managed to get started in a few locations but even after freeing both ends completely, it still would not budge until I managed to break it all the way along one of the long sides as well. I recall making very slow but visible progress along one side or end for a while but eventually I would come to a point where I could not seem to get any further and I would have to start again at a different location. Before I got to that point, I tried the slamming it onto concrete trick as well but that made no impression on it except it probably contributed to the broken track that manifested later. Regards, Peter Coghlan.