Ilco electric pick disassembly

[RenderMan]

I aquired an old ilco electric pick (the modded B&D electric screwdriver one) recently with a trashed battery. The local black and decker repair depot does'nt have batteries for that model any more but pointed me at a place that might be able to replace the cells.

The problem is getting it open to get at the cells. The unit is a 2 piece shell, but the pick portion is a solid ring around the rest of the case. there's one screw in the back of the handle, 3 in the lockpick portion, but it's not budging.

Any help in getting this thing apart is greatly appreciated. I don't want to break anything.

[UWSDWF]

if there is a label sticker on it peel it back as they tend to have screws under them

[Shrub]

There is usually 2 'C' lock (seelock) pins that go through and hold it all together,

SHow me a pic and i should be able to tell you otherwise,

[RenderMan]

There are 2 C shaped pins that go through the entire 'head' of the thing (I thought they were allen screws).

Now the question is, how do you get those out?

[Shrub]

They are the ones

You have to drive them out with a pin punch,

If you dont have a set of punches get a nail both long enough and strog enough to knock them out a bit (make the tip of the nail flat first with a file) and then pull them out from the other side with some pliers,

From experiance i suggest they are actually 4 pins and you only need to remove the first two, the two you knock in will stay in the body of the pick but be ready for them being long pins or having to knock all the pins out,

[Shrub]

By the way a pin punch is like a centre punch but has straight sides and no point on the end,

[RenderMan]

Thanks Shrub!

I had to use a nail to pound out the pins, but they came out and I got it open. Just a couple C cell rechargables. Should be able to get them replaced easily enough and end up with a cheap electric cheating tool

[Shrub]

Try and get somthing better than the cheap ones, somthing like a couple of 1800 Mh and higher would be good,

[zeke79]

May I recommend Cheapbatterypacks.com. Loock at the CBP batteries. Buy a good nimh cell. If you like, you can size up your 2 c cells and go with possibly 3 sub c's if you have room and up the voltage from 2.4 to 3.6 volts for more oomph.

Just an idea. Do be sure to check out cheap battery packs though as they are great and have some of the best batteries available.

[RenderMan]

I went to a place just a few blocks from my office and for $15 CAN got a replacement set of cells with all the tabs soldered and everything. Should have boosted the current, but it's not terribly important. It's just more the novelty of a working electric pick than anything.

[p1ckf1sh]

"We all enter this world in the same way: naked, screaming,and soaked in blood.
But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there."
-- Dana Gould

I like that. I once heard something quite like that...: "We are all born naked, wet, cold and miserable. Then things start to get worse..."

[zeke79]

I went to a place just a few blocks from my office and for $15 CAN got a replacement set of cells with all the tabs soldered and everything. Should have boosted the current, but it's not terribly important. It's just more the novelty of a working electric pick than anything.

Glad to hear you got it working atleast .

[EricM]

Now let's see it without the guard on the unit, and to see it in all of it's mechanical glory.


-EricM "Leïto Mephisto"

[cbuk2k]

Be careful dissembling an electric screw driver, they tend to have complex planetary gear boxes and aren’t always held together as securely as they should be. B&D stuff isn’t generally user serviceable, maybe different if old gear.

RS (rswww.com) sell a vast range of cells if you have the patience to search for the right ones.