Tools for taking stuff apart - what's your favorite?

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  • redwire
    Badcaps Legend
    • Dec 2010
    • 3906
    • Canada
    #1

    Tools for taking stuff apart - what's your favorite?

    For taking apart AC adapters, LCD monitors, laptops, cell phones - anything that is (ultrasonic) plastic welded or has latches with fine seams, I find steel guitar picks are a fantastic tool!
    Using slotted-screwdrivers and knives, I always gouge things or there's blood...
    0.3mm thickness picks are pretty tough, they don't bend or cut my fingers.

    You can get them on eBay or from Deal Extreme, music stores seem more expensive.
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    • Pentium4
      CapXon Be Gone
      • Sep 2011
      • 3741
      • USA
      #2
      Re: Tools for taking stuff apart - what's your favorite?

      Don't know why I never thought of that. Gonna have to try that next time

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        • capkid
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          • Oct 2010
          • 1339
          • United States
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          Re: Tools for taking stuff apart - what's your favorite?

          Bought a Hitachi DB3DL2 cordless driver awhile back for working on flat panel TVs - great tool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BBYm0nwrYk
          Last edited by capkid; 07-11-2013, 10:26 PM.
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