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I had a set of plastic spudgers that I got from the discount site Meritline. The solution is a remarkably simple tool commonly called a “spudger.” It’s a thin metal or plastic blade, whose edge fits between the two plastic pieces and lets you lever them apart without breaking anything. Normal-sized screwdriver blades are too thick to slip between the pieces, and thin jewelers’ screwdrivers are too pointy - they poke holes in the plastic rather than providing the even leverage necessary to separate the pieces. (If you don’t have a set already, Newer Technology has a $17.95 11-piece portable toolkit that contains the basics.) But while you might think you could use straight blade screwdrivers to separate two pieces of an iPod case, for To break into and work on one of these sealed devices, you also need the right tools, including a collection of straight blade, Phillips, and Torx screwdrivers in different sizes.

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Sometimes, however, the rest of us just gotta get inside, a task that’s a whole lot easier thanks to resources like iFixit and Other World Computing’s Install Videos. Tougher yet are most MacBooks and all iPods in general, they’re designed to snap together at the factory and never be taken apart other than by Apple-trained technicians. The Mac mini - particularly the older models - is harder. Sometimes it’s easy - the Mac Pro, for example, is beautifully designed to come apart with the flip of a latch and the removal of its side panel. #1622: OS feature survey results, Continuity Camera webcam preview, OWC miniStack STXĮvery now and then, I have to disassemble some electronic gadget.

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