Optical Drive Outer Door Stuck

Can anyone help me ? My lovely little girl posted a small coin into the outer door of my G5 optical drive. The little grey outer door that moves down when the drive opens. It is now stuck with the coin wedged inside. I can easily remove the optical drive but cant see how to get at the outer door. Can anyone suggest how I remove it as it is stuck halfway and the optical drive cannot open past it.
Thanks in advance
dual 2.7 G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) 4.5 gigs ram Radeon X800

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muka3D wrote:
Hey Circanum,
Unfortunately, I don't have one of these exact units available to take a picture of, however perhaps we can work with what you've got.
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The actuator, or the little arm, is there, and it does bend when I push the faceplate button. What seems to happen is that it isn't hitting the open button, and it just carries through, causing the faceplate button to stick instead of bouncing back out.
You can better understand what I mean by checking some pictures I took of the faceplate on and off the drive.
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