More data on dead wall wart

[Tom Jennings]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

> Next step is to crack it open.  Anyone know a good way to open up these
> permanently sealed transformers?

I've had reasonable luck at clean breaks by laying it on it's
edge (edge meaning along the glue seam), placing something
like a butter knife (putty knife, etc) and applying pressure
with a small hammer, in the manner of pressure-chipping stone
knives. A series of little >crack< to the glue seam for the
entire circumference, once or twice around.

Or you can sometimes just wail on it like craking a nut. Seriously.