Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!mtune!whuts!homxb!ho7cad!wjc From: wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: opening a 3B1, 68881 FPU Message-ID: <258@ho7cad.ATT.COM> Date: 9 Dec 87 23:15:12 GMT References: <1836@cup.portal.com> Sender: nuucp@ho7cad.ATT.COM Lines: 23 In-reply-to: thad@cup.portal.com's message of 7 Dec 87 02:13:15 GMT In article <1836@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com writes: >Anyone know the "secret" to opening up a 3B1? After removing all the >screws everywhere (even the two hidden ones under the posts that secure >the keyboard when it's placed on the system unit), the front edge still >seems to be attached to "something." > Keep tugging and it'll come. You really need three hands for this. I find that if I press the front lip upwards and then lift up on the two "wings" beside the monitor, I can just about get it off before it all snaps itself back together. Usually takes me several iterations before it finally lets me win. (Expect a similar but not quite so tough battle when you want to put it back on.) Like so many other things in life, this is not so much a matter of force, but of position. (I'm presuming that you've already made sure the floppy drive lever is out of the way, as well as the speaker volume control.) Bill Carpenter (AT&T gateways)!ho5cad!wjc HO 1L-410, (201)949-8392