Anyone remember the Mac Cracker?

[ereuter]

Pony 3201 Spring Clamp. https://amzn.to/4wNYUdE

Pull off the rubber tips. Put the lips in a vise to squish them straight. Voilà! Mini Mac Cracker.

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I still have one my dad made in 1986!

 

[Nixontheknight]

I had one back in the day, and still have the screw extractor and the anti-static wrist strap. I decided to make the actual case cracker today, so here's a recap of that adventure.

I don't have an official Mac Cracker, but I just bought a set of torx screwdrivers that have a foot long shaft, and they work just as well

 

[superjer2000]

Pony 3201 Spring Clamp. https://amzn.to/4wNYUdE

Pull off the rubber tips. Put the lips in a vise to squish them straight. Voilà! Mini Mac Cracker.

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Pony 3201 Spring Clamp. https://amzn.to/4wNYUdE

Pull off the rubber tips. Put the lips in a vise to squish them straight. Voilà! Mini Mac Cracker.

View attachment 101395

This is very close to the case splitter Applied Engineering shipping with the Transwarp accelerator card I bought for my Mac Classic!

 

[Boctor]

A long time ago, during middle school, my dad cut the handle off a Torx screwdriver and cut a slot into the top for a flathead driver to turn it. One of my first Ebay Macs (when you could get an SE/30 shipped for $50!) was in need of a new hard disk, and his "crazy driver" tool did the trick.

 

[ymk]

I've got one, purchased by my dad to open his SE when I was a kid.