Re: iMac CD slot access

2014-11-05 Thread Neil Laubenthal
I haven't looked at an iMac in awhile but IIRC if you can get it to fall over against the rubber you can (if you're lucky) maybe slip a butter knife in and pull it out. Not a high probability though. neil The three kinds of stress…nuclear, cooking and ahole. Jello is the key to the

Re: iMac CD slot access

2014-11-05 Thread steve harley
on 2014-11-04 18:02 Carl Hoefs wrote It's a 27 late 2009 iMac. The slot's not much wider than a CD, and with the foam rubber guard in the way, there's about 0 chance it'll come out on its own just from gravity. ... Guess there's no other way than to place the unit on its side, fish around with a

iMac CD slot access

2014-11-04 Thread Carl Hoefs
Without looking, a new student in our lab slid his SD memory card into the CD slot on his iMac by mistake. And it went all the way in. Kinda makes you wonder how many people have done that before, as they’re adjacent to each other. Anyway, is there any known way to go about extracting it

Re: iMac CD slot access

2014-11-04 Thread Macs R We
Maybe. It depends how good your tech was at “Operation.” Seriously, I couldn’t answer this question unless the unit were in front of me in the shop. On Nov 4, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Without looking, a new student in our lab slid his SD memory card

Re: iMac CD slot access

2014-11-04 Thread Neil Laubenthal
I’m guessing not…although if you can see it through the slot you might be able to slip a thin knife blade or something in and tease it out. You might need to turn/tilt it to get the card to slid up against the entry slot first. It’s gonna be one of those “ya gotta get lucky” things I think.

Re: iMac CD slot access

2014-11-04 Thread newslists
There's a rubber berm at the front slot that's intended to block dust from coming into the unit. Doesn't look like there's any way yo insert anything into it. Certainly no way to 'get lucky' and grab it or have it 'fall out'. Argh. I knew this would happen one day. I’m guessing not…although if

Re: iMac CD slot access

2014-11-04 Thread Macs R We
I don’t know what model iMac it is, but all the Macs I have dealt with have a long narrow short-bristled brush strip on each side of the slot (not rubber). So you can part it and look behind it if you’re delicate. On Nov 4, 2014, at 5:11 PM, newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: There's a