ORIGINAL: reidatwork
Thanks, I did that and it's still stuck. I notice the area under the switch looks "burnt" and repaired. There seems to be a hole thru the body and some glue or epoxy sealing it. I'm guessing that does not look right. Maybe it's keeping it from coming apart. I've even tried prying it pretty hard with a screw driver between the yellow body and the black battery compartment, but it does not come out. The black plastic at the rear end for the magnetic drive for the prop looks glued on. Should it be? Is there any dissassembly here? Uploaded some pics. Thanks for any suggestions.
Your problem appears to be the magnet assisted "on-off" switch area.
Based on the photos, I would conclude that at one point it caused the hull's yellow ABS plastic to fuse with the "on-off" switch. (due to a possible electrical overload) The photo looks like the plastic melted.
You do not need to remove the black plastic propulsion assembly, to pull out the battery compartment tray.
Try using a Dremel tool to "cut out" this melted portion.
You can replace this part later on (to plug up that hole) with ABS pastic cut out from other hobby kits you may have lying around & a little C.A. glue.
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