On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 04:25 AM, Paul Brierley wrote:
If you need a torx driver for a Mac, look at rswww.com - they sell a specific long handle t-15 driver for the very purpose of opening Macs. May be quite pricy to ship to the US, though.
If you only need to open one mac (or are really cheap), you can do what I did. I just made my own tool.
Here is what you need: a Bic Stic pen (the white round ones) a new pencil (hex shaped type) a T-15 driver bit
Take the pen, and pull out the ink cartridge and the black plug at the end, leaving you with a hollow plastic tube. Now, sharpen the end of the pencil a little, and shove it into the pen barrel until it is firmly lodged. Then, shove the T-15 driver bit in the other end of the pen barrel. What you have now is a rather kludgey tool that you can use to get the screws out from inside the handle. It _does_ work, and I have opened many a mac this way.
The only drawback of this is that you don't have a great deal of leverage with a pencil...
Ian Primus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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