Opening Pioneer DVDRW drive door without power

I have a problem with my Pioneer DVDRW drive on my G5. When it closes with a disk in it it sounds like a mixmaster. I suspect I accidently placed one of the clear plastic protectors that come with a new stack of DVDs together with the disk in the drive. The disk ejected, but the plastic protector is still in there?
I have the drive out and figured I could open the drawer and shake whatever is in there out.
Problem is I don't know how to open the drawer without power?
I've ordered a new pioneer drive, but figure I can salvage the old one and put it in another machine.
Young Guy
1 mini-tower G5, 3 G4s 1 mini-tower 2 notebooks   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

Thanks much. I seen the pinhole before, but I was afraid I'd break something. I got it open and sure enough, the pastic protector was in the drive. Next I guess I'll see if the drive has been damaged by the mix-mater effect.
Young Guy

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