Point Blank Disassembly Preparation

Disassembly Preparation

Took me half an hour or more to get the lock off the back door! Well, I only spent so long on it because I didn’t want to damage the wood at all - plus I don’t have an extension cord long enough to be able to use a drill on it. After much hard graft I finally manage to mangle it enough to be able to put a screwdriver into the lock and successfully turn it - this is my first view inside the cabinet.

First problem I can see here… I’m on my own doing this and that’s a 28" monitor which is extremely heavy! Fortunately its on ‘rungs’ and I can slide it out so that I’m supporting the weight with my legs and the cab is taking the rest until I can reach the monitor cage/ bars on the other side. Then… I pulled it out fully expecting it to be more weight than I could handle, but it wasn’t quite so bad! 😄

I managed to carry it up the stairs and into the flat no problem, everything else in the cabinet was easy by comparison though! Other things I took out were: Wooden monitor surround, PCB (in cage), power/ transformer block, mirror (screen faces up and a mirror is used to ‘project’ the image towards the player), control panel and finally the bezel which is just a plain sheet of glass that covers the front. Another problem I did come across here which I had anticipated was security screws… They are the type that are a 4mm allen key but with a ‘pin’ in the middle, fortunately this pin breaks relatively easily when you knock it backwards and forwards using a small screwdriver and a hammer! Then I just used the 4mm allen key - problem solved!!!

I forgot to add, I found an original Point Blank manual inside! I’ll scan it and put it online when I have time…