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Hi all!

I am looking for "right" screwdriver to disassemble Saber's bottom.

As you know, for this purpose is necessary splined (flat) screwdriver with a groove in the middle.

Has tried to find Motorola P/N, but unsuccessfully. Has glanced in the big shops of tools, but too unsuccessfully.

Please, advise, where it is possible to get such screwdriver.

P.S.
Please, do not suggest to use for disassembling Saber usual splined (flat) screwdriver or to make it on one's own. It not a variant for me

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... mber=91310

If memory serves, it's the #8 spanner bit. Second row down from the hinge, third from the left.

Ok, thanks!

But what about screwdriver instead of bit?

Where it is possible to buy such through the Internet?

MotoFAN wrote:Ok, thanks!

But what about screwdriver instead of bit?

Where it is possible to buy such through the Internet?

Just a FYI, they sell drivers for these bits as well.....it stick you bit in and basically you have a screw driver.

I know you said not to say this but most of us, including many of those with service shops have simply taken a regular screwdriver and removed the center of the screwdriver with a dremel tool or grinder.......making yourself one for less than $1.00 in most cases. The entire process is complete in 5 minutes or less.

txshooter wrote:
I know you said not to say this but most of us, including many of those with service shops have simply taken a regular screwdriver and removed the center of the screwdriver with a dremel tool or grinder.......making yourself one for less than $1.00 in most cases. The entire process is complete in 5 minutes or less.

Some people are not as mechanically inclined as others, plus some of us can't remember where we put our dremel tools


<note to self, find dremel tool>

I have no dremel tool, emery grinder & etc. Also I do not wish to work broach file the whole evening.

If you really can't find your way clear to make a tool for this, then simply
take a small needle-nosed set of pliers, spread the tips slightly apart, and
then put the tips into the sides of the spanner head screw and turn. We
have all done it this way at one time or another and it works fine and does
not hurt the screw's top surface.

What are you trying to do to a Saber that you need to open it up?

There are literally hundreds of sites on the internet that sell this kind
of tool. One of them is here:

http://www.hudsonfasteners.com/sec/sec_sp_mgsdbk.htm

Just Google "screwdriver spanner bits" and see what comes up.

$20 + SHIPPING I will make you one!

Got ya beat TX... Ill go $15 and throw in a file to make your own!!!

Tom in D.C. wrote:If you really can't find your way clear to make a tool for this, then simply
take a small needle-nosed set of pliers, spread the tips slightly apart, and
then put the tips into the sides of the spanner head screw and turn. We
have all done it this way at one time or another and it works fine and does
not hurt the screw's top surface.

Nevertheless this method leaves marks. I wish to avoid it.

MotoFAN wrote:

Tom in D.C. wrote:If you really can't find your way clear to make a tool for this, then simply
take a small needle-nosed set of pliers, spread the tips slightly apart, and
then put the tips into the sides of the spanner head screw and turn. We
have all done it this way at one time or another and it works fine and does
not hurt the screw's top surface.

Nevertheless this method leaves marks. I wish to avoid it.

Even the original Motorola Tool, that was outragously expensive, had the possiblity of leaving tool marks. You have been given several solutions by those who have done this hundreds and thousands of times. Tom's tip is a free solution that will cost you nothing whatsoever. Also, even if you were to scratch the surface of the battery plate, WHO CARES? This is simply covered up anytime you have a battery on the radio. No one will ever see it.

Here it is the be all end all. on the right.. THE Motorola tool.. On the left the simulated Motorola saber case tool!