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How to remove security plate from G4 Cube?
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The odds of being able to do it without fracturing the outer shell are slim, if I'm honest.
You could try squirting some Goo Gone on the 'top' of it and letting it soak, then try to slide something thin inside to start breaking off the sticky gunk.
You could try squirting some Goo Gone on the 'top' of it and letting it soak, then try to slide something thin inside to start breaking off the sticky gunk.
I’d try sawing it with dental floss and wd40. i’ve successfully done this on other adhesives, but not on a cube.
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I've done exactly this, with a plate that was superglued on to a Cube I bought. What makes it kind of ridiculous is that 1) the shell detaches easily, leaving the expensive core free to be removed, and 2) there's a Kensington slot on the core's handle anyway, which would secure the whole lot!
Anyway, it's easy enough to remove without leaving a trace. I took a long, thin kitchen knife and sawed away at the join between the plate and the acrylic shell. The knife won't scratch the shell, as you're sawing parallel to it. Once the edge of the plate had been lifted slightly, I used a cleaver to get in there and apply pressure. It then let go almost immediately.
Some hard superglue residue was left on the shell. I used a paint scraper (a Stanley knife blade perpendicular to a handle) to carefully remove most of this. Again, this shouldn't dig in to the acrylic, it'll just catch on the glue. To fully remove traces of the glue, I used Meguiar's Plast-Rx plastic polish. It's designed for headlights, helmet visors and so on. With a microfibre pad and a bit of elbow grease it came up virtually as good as new.
The Meguiar's is great for cleaning up scratches on a Cube generally. It'd probably remove any depth of scratch, but obviously very deep ones will require a lot of polishing, and you'd start buffing dips into the surface. Good luck!
Anyway, it's easy enough to remove without leaving a trace. I took a long, thin kitchen knife and sawed away at the join between the plate and the acrylic shell. The knife won't scratch the shell, as you're sawing parallel to it. Once the edge of the plate had been lifted slightly, I used a cleaver to get in there and apply pressure. It then let go almost immediately.
Some hard superglue residue was left on the shell. I used a paint scraper (a Stanley knife blade perpendicular to a handle) to carefully remove most of this. Again, this shouldn't dig in to the acrylic, it'll just catch on the glue. To fully remove traces of the glue, I used Meguiar's Plast-Rx plastic polish. It's designed for headlights, helmet visors and so on. With a microfibre pad and a bit of elbow grease it came up virtually as good as new.
The Meguiar's is great for cleaning up scratches on a Cube generally. It'd probably remove any depth of scratch, but obviously very deep ones will require a lot of polishing, and you'd start buffing dips into the surface. Good luck!
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The dental floss is a great way to remove it. I've used it to remove the reflectors on the front forks of my motorcycle, and that's some tough glue.
I only skimmed the responses so I apologize if this has been repeated. If it were my machine, I would be tempted to heat up a spatula not to 100s of degrees but hot to the touch but not hot enough to cause any melting. Of course first I would try to get a sense of the glue used. It also looks like some of that adhesive is also around the locking system you described.
Perhaps a spatula may be able to fit underneath and then keep pushing it until the item adhered to the housing begins to, hopefully lift off the casing.
If the G4 case becomes scratched as a result you will be able to polish it back up but to avoid deep scratching, as it may happen I don't know, you could bend the edges of the spatula up so that they face away from the computer casing.
I hope this lends itself to your efforts.
Kind regards
—Alex
Perhaps a spatula may be able to fit underneath and then keep pushing it until the item adhered to the housing begins to, hopefully lift off the casing.
If the G4 case becomes scratched as a result you will be able to polish it back up but to avoid deep scratching, as it may happen I don't know, you could bend the edges of the spatula up so that they face away from the computer casing.
I hope this lends itself to your efforts.
Kind regards
—Alex
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