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    Question Opening the Module

    I'm trying to construct a laser by following these instructions : http://www.instructables.com/id/Pock...iny-Light-aka/, read it. I am having to use this module: www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?criteria=LE07H. If you read step 4 of the instructions you'll see that I have to open the module, how do I open this module !

    Please, please help me !
    My friends say I'm mad , I suppose they're not wrong !

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    just twist it counter clockwise.

    its screwed on
    -Josh

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    Quote Originally Posted by thesk8nmidget View Post
    just twist it counter clockwise.

    its screwed on
    Thanks, its really tight is there any real risk of me breakin it ?
    My friends say I'm mad , I suppose they're not wrong !

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    Whe I first read the question and saw the answer, I though it was a joke! Open the module... turn it ccw. I guess I can get a little bit too much computer science on my brain from time to time!

    James.

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    i have had a few modules pretty tight before but they will come loose. sometime they have a glue or loctite or compound on them that makes it tight
    -Josh

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    Cool It needed brute force

    I spent 2 hours trying to unscrew it with no prevail, I shoved some pliers in the gap and opened them, it broke the glue (THE ONLY THING HOLDING IT) and it came apart.
    My friends say I'm mad , I suppose they're not wrong !

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    Quote Originally Posted by Loonatic View Post
    I spent 2 hours trying to unscrew it with no prevail, I shoved some pliers in the gap and opened them, it broke the glue (THE ONLY THING HOLDING IT) and it came apart.
    My friends say I'm mad , I suppose they're not wrong !
    Your closing line reminded me of this:

    I have great faith in fools. Self-confidence, my friends call it.
    - Edgar Allen Poe

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