# Sky - help in tear down required **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** sky\ **Created:** [September 9, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/sky-help-in-tear-down-required/27840 "2025-09-09T12:14:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![iladyman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/iladyman/32/2305_2.png) [@iladyman](https://community.tempest.earth/u/iladyman)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 2:06am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/sky-help-in-tear-down-required/27840/4 "2025-09-24T02:06:31Z")
Hi mr Burns, This thread shows how to dissasemble a Sky. > [@Opening up a broken sky unit](https://community.tempest.earth/t/opening-up-a-broken-sky-unit/11903): > > My sky unit broke down. Before throwing it in the recycling bin, I want to open it up. Four screws at the bottom was step 1, desoldering the power wires step 2, I didn’t want to open up the antenna in order to desolder it, so I cut the wire. Now I’m left with the top part. There was a tiny bit of green stuff (glue?) between the brass part and the plastic which I scratched away. Big question is how to proceed to open the top part I don’t want to just smash it yet, in case something repairable i… The red arrow pointing towards the cap in the last picture…you can see the join between the cap and the center housing with the ultrasonic sensors has some gaps. There is a rubber seal in that join to be careful of when you insert a thin stanly knife style device to prize the lid slightly wider to disengage 4 little ridges which normally hold it in place. But when doing that be careful not to let the two parts seperate very far as there is a ribbon cable joining both components which can break if stretched. While I have disassembled a Sky I have never repaired one. But sometimes a failed sky given a rest inside for a few months next time I try it comes back to life. Cheers Ian 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://community.tempest.earth/t/sky-help-in-tear-down-required/27840)._