Best thing ever for prying open delicate electronics

[epicelite]

http://countycomm.com/ucs.htm

It's made for guns so its nice and strong!

 

[Tibia]

A guitar pick does the same thing, and comes in various thicknesses and materials.

 

[bic]

I've been taking stuff apart with flathead screwdrivers and putty knives for years now with no issue.

 

[epicelite]

GUITAR PICK!?



Well, flax...

Don't see getting to much leverage with it though.

 

[samjc3]

I've been taking stuff apart with flathead screwdrivers and putty knives for years now with no issue.

 

[epicelite]

I've been taking stuff apart with flathead screwdrivers and putty knives for years now with no issue.

Enjoy your scratched and dented plastic.

 

[Tibia]

Use a plastic putty knife. Heck, just use a plastic knife.

 

[Mako321]

Use a plastic putty knife. Heck, just use a plastic knife.

Mine break when I try

 

[bic]

Enjoy your scratched and dented plastic.

If you're making huge dents in the plastic, you're doing it wrong.

If you're scratching it all up, you're really doing it wrong.

The trick is to push into the plastic clip and then push the whole thing up without twisting the screwdriver. Trying to twist the snaps apart just leads to dents and frustration; you have to unhook the two halves of the snap and they come apart easy.

In my experience it's Dang near impossible to cause significant cosmetic damage with a putty knife, even if you're not being particularly careful.

 

[XCVG]

What about things that don't have clips and are just glued together?

 

[samjc3]

Acid.

 

[Twilight Wolf]

Acid.

Nah, you'd be trippin' balls before you finished opening it.

 

[samjc3]

thats the idea. you can open it.......tomorrow

 

[eurddrue]

Do you actually have one of those, epicelite? They're terrible for opening electronics. If you don't already have one, take an orange peeler and try to open something with it. Screwdrivers, putty knives, fingernails, exacto knives > those.

 

[epicelite]

How do you know, got one?

 

[themadhacker]

i use tiny flatheads for most things. I once used a guitar pick for an ipod nano and it tore the pick to Heck, but I got the thing open.