Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site Glacier.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!Glacier!reid From: reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: how to take apart a jewel box without damaging it Message-ID: <485@Glacier.ARPA> Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 01:00:45 EST Article-I.D.: Glacier.485 Posted: Sun Nov 3 01:00:45 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Nov-85 01:34:57 EST Reply-To: reid@Glacier.UUCP (Brian Reid) Organization: Stanford University, Computer Systems Lab Lines: 28 Summary: where to pry and what to pry with I bought 8 new jewel boxes today; 4 to replace broken originals, 2 spares, and 2 to dissect for practice. I thought I'd post the results of my surgery so nobody else will have to buy practice boxes (they were $0.99 each at Tower Records). The black plastic with the centerhole fingers needs to be pried loose from the bottom clear plastic cover in order to the the J-card out. There are several places that look like they are the right place to pry, but in fact they aren't. To get it open with minimum damage, use a putty knife or other piece of flexible spring steel. If you use a Swiss Army knife or a screwdriver you will scratch the jewel box or even break it. Orient the jewel box so that it is flat on the table, with the hinges to your left, so that it will open like a book. Open it. Remove the CD. Over on the right edge are two half-moon cutouts in the black plastic, each about 2cm from the top right or top left corners, and each about 3mm in diameter. Use these as entryways to get your putty knife between the black plastic and the clear plastic. Put the knife in at one of the holes, pry up a little bit, then slide the putty knife sideways over to the other half-moon hole. The black plastic should pop out in your hand. After replacing the paper, the black plastic just snaps back in. -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA