Access Panel Latch Broken - How to Open Case?

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It may require a wire that is stiffer than a straightened paperclip (the usual solution for everything).
If required, I suggest a straightened wire coat hanger (but cut the wiggly end off the get a straight stiff wire.)

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I replaced mine with a direct replacement 1TB hard disk that was a 3.25" but was only 20MM thick , as opposed to the more normal 25mm one. I am not 100% sure that a 25mm one would fit , but I think it may with a bit of fiddling around. But I was very aware of possible heat issues , so went for a direct replacement with the exact same model as Tosh has used.
That's it really , I gave the fan and heat sink a good blow out with Dust off , but after 18 months use they were not to badly clogged..
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PB G4 65W poweradapter broken, how to open it?

Hi all,
The cable running from the poweradapter/charger (model no A1021, 65Watts) to my PB G4/800 has frayed where it leaves the poweradapter/charger cabinet, thus rendering the adapter/charger unserviceable.
I dislike throwing it into the bin, not for the money but for the sake of the environment. I am willing to give it a repair go, just cut off about, say, an inch and resolder the cable to the PCB. However, I cannot figure out how to open i.e. take apart the cabinet.
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Sincere greetings from continental Europe,
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For eww: thanks for your reply.
About: “How to take apart the PB G4 65W poweradapter.”
I tried and it turned into a nitty-gritty enterprise.
I do not encourage anybody to go down this path, but if you insist, without modellers’ skills and gear, you end up with an adapter that is definitely beyond repair.
On the other hand, unserviceable it already was, so who cares?
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You cannot: the white soap-box like poweradapters for Al, Ti PBks and (some) G4 iBooks, were (probably) never designed with any kind of ‘take-apart’ in mind, in other words: opening indeed equals breaking.
It is held together by several glued ‘males/females” (like the two fuselage halves in a Revell or Monogram model aeroplane or boat kit, remember that?), about half a meter or two feet of single-sided sticky tape and 20 cm’s or 8 inches double-sided sticky tape and about 15 grams or half an once of silicon-putty, the same kind of stuff you will find as a sealant where your bathtub meets the surrounding tiles.
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You cannot saw in the groove at the side where the feet hinge and the cord leading to the PB, leaves the box. Deal with that later.
Okay, I had three equatorial grooves sawed out and yes, I could feel some ‘movement’.
By repeatedly sliding and prying a wooden wedge through the sawgrooves and twisting the halves realtive to each other I managed to get some more movement. That all makes quite unpleasant sounds.
After carrying on like this for about a minute or twenty, suddenly the two halves popped apart with a very nasty ‘tschack’ sound: two male/females broken and the two feet came apart.
Oh dear, I had disrupted the bond between one side of a two-sided piece of sticky-tape and the upper housing (that caused the ‘tschack’ sound). To the other sticky side: a piece of aluminium sheet (0.4mm or 0.015 inch thick).
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There I was: with wrinkled and bend aluminium and copper sheets and hundreds of silicon-putty chips around the place. But the adapter had been opened!
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The adapter is of the switch-mode powersupply type and the mains transformer is a pot-core. This hints towards a quite high switching frequency, say something like 100kHz. It needs to be that high in order to convert 65Watts in such a small box without ending in a disaster.
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Eh, NO!
Ironing out the wrinkles in the copper an aluminium sheets, forget it.
With the wrinkles the whole assembly will be too thick to fit (cram?) into the the two halves of the soapbox.
And for those who think the whole thing could be glued together with epoxy, the silicon-putty residues are all over the box, so the epoxy or any other glue for that matter, will not stick.
It is as simple as that.
However, I learned a lot from this.
With sincere greetings from continental Europa,
Feike L Hoogenbos

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