Phil Addison wrote:
Got this plea from a nice neighbour this afternoon, so here I am with
her DC05 Absolute. I easily removed the one visible torx screw (needed
an extra long T15 torx bit though), but as expected that didn't help me
any!! I'm loathe to risk wrecking anything by prising of the wrong
plastic bits, anyone done one of these before?

How about:

http://www.grosse.is-a-geek.com/diydc05.html

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Cheers,

John.

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