apple i pod

[KINGOFBEDSIT]

I have an apple i pod and have damaged the casing,apple say there is no replacement,also i have sand in the machine and i want to open up and clean it ,again apple wont tell me how

[j2buttonsw]

Having spent an unhappy afternoon with one of these devices I guess the way to open it is to crack the seal that joins the two case halves then prise them apart. There are no screws, or any obvious way to get in, that I have found. It seems like you have done a pretty good number on it already so any further damage will be minimal. However, I can't see what help cleaning the sand will do: there are no moving parts for sand to get jammed into (it is a battery, a hard drive and some electronics) so I would be tempted to leave it alone. The question is: what do you do if the rechargable battery needs replacing?

[spangle2k]

umm... hard drives have moving parts!!? if the sand makes it in to the hard drive reader head it could be caput for the device!!?