Dissemble Sony Boombox CFD8

They usually have deeply recessed philips-head screws, not rivets ... All that's needed is a good quality long-shanked screwdriver.

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Thanks for your reply. No this &^%&^% boombox has rivets (I promise). Someone else mentioned this and ended throwing there's away. Before I do that I'll break out the sawzall or chainsaw :-)

Well, that's very odd, and I can't imagine how rivets have gotten in there, or why. Or even what a rivet would secure to. Even if you could get a blind rivet down the recess, and force it into the screwhole on the pillar that's part of the front moulding, you'd still never be able to get the rivetting tool down there to 'pull' it. I have been mending Sony boomboxes for 35 years, and I have never seen a model that is held together by anything other than philips headed screws. Is it possible that someone has replaced the screws with some having a 'security' head, and that is fooling you into thinking that they are rivets ?

I don't have the manual for the CFD 8, but the one for the CFD 9 which I think is pretty similar, very clearly shows it being held together by "#3" and "#4", which according to the parts list are "SCREW +BVTP 3 x 14 TYPE2 N-S" and "SCREW +B 3 x 8"

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Its quite likely that someone in the past has damaged the screw heads and the screwdriver just spins on them.

Baron. The OP contacted me direct off-group on this and it's now resolved. :-)

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Good! Thanks for letting me know the outcome.

No probs

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