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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
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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