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nox-x / TG3442DE-Teardown

Teardowning a Vodafone TG3442DE Cable router
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Request: Disassembly Instructions #5

Closed carlossless closed 1 week ago

carlossless commented 2 years ago

Hey, thank you for all the efforts directed at documenting this device!

I am interested in possibly making a rack-mountable shell for this thing, but I am a bit confused by how is it supposed to be disassembled. Removing all 4 visible screws does not cause it to fall apart, and it won't budge even with a little applied force in all directions and cracks.

I would love to keep the original shell intact and not destroy it utterly, any hints?

nox-x commented 2 years ago

I've successfully used an old (plastic) credit card divided in 3 stripes (credit card plastic seems strong enough but not to hard for damaging the material). With theses stripes I was able to disjoin each couple of hooks starting at the bottom side. It's a bit tricky because the assembler also used tongue and groove joints in addition to the small hooks. I would recommend to first disjoin the bottom, then the back & front sides and at least the top side Hopefully the attached photos from inside the case can make it easier:

back bottom front top

carlossless commented 2 years ago

@nox-x ah, thank you so much, I'll take a stab at this in the following days.