Re: Always sumpthin darnit

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <4uii50$ob9@cello.gina.calstate.edu>,
Steve Jensen <sjensen@cello.gina.calstate.edu> wrote:
>wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn) writes:
>
>>Sounds like the wire has come loose from the switch.  Take your
>>swiss army knife, open the drive, carefully remove the switch and the
>>button, poke the wires out the front of the drive, duct tape them
>>together with a bit of rubber band between.  be sure to leave about a
>>quarter inch of bare wire past the rubber band, so when you squeeze
>>the two wires they touch and make the disk eject.
> 
>Just leave the wires poking out.  When you want to eject, grab a bit of
>pepperoni from a nearby pizza and set it on the wires.  Cat goes for the
>bait, shorts the wires.  "MEOW", zip, disk whacks cat, cat bails.
>You may be able to recycle the bait, depending on how much ram your cat
>has.
> 
>Loogie
>

Ahh... but that's a Rube-Goldbergish fix for the problem, not a
MacGyverish solution.  A MacGyverish solution was asked for.  :)

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