sabrent USB audio adapter

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sabrent USB audio adapter

Post by Robots86 » Sun May 29, 2016 6:00 am

Is anyone using the sabrent usb adapter and if so how did you go about opening it up?

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Re: sabrent USB audio adapter

Post by Kilren » Sun May 29, 2016 11:27 am

Robots86 wrote:Is anyone using the sabrent usb adapter and if so how did you go about opening it up?
I think that is the dominate usb sound card being used. I am using it, chiz is, and so is cannikin, along with others that I don't recall right now.

Opening it is a real pain in the butt! It is really thick plastic that is glued very well together. I am sure there are better ways, but I chose a corner (where the audio outputs are) and carefully and slowly dremeled the corner until I got through the plastic and got a flat head in there and pried it open.

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Re: sabrent USB audio adapter

Post by wermy » Sun May 29, 2016 2:18 pm

I've got that one as well. I turned it sideways (so the seam is vertical) and gently squeezed it with some pliers. Risky I know, but they were cheap enough to give it a go. :P

Worked great. I heard a pop as one of the seams gave way, and pried it off by hand after that. Took a 30 seconds at most.
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Re: sabrent USB audio adapter

Post by Kilren » Sun May 29, 2016 3:37 pm

wermy wrote:I've got that one as well. I turned it sideways (so the seam is vertical) and gently squeezed it with some pliers. Risky I know, but they were cheap enough to give it a go. :P

Worked great. I heard a pop as one of the seams gave way, and pried it off by hand after that. Took a 30 seconds at most.
This is probably the better way to do it. After getting mine apart, I saw that there were tabs that were also keeping it together (sort of similar to the way the battery cover stays in place) and squeezing it would help. I had to make it difficult when I tried to do it though.

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