Now where's the fun in that???  ;-)  You should be able to perform

all your filer hardware maintenance with a hunting knife, some chewing gum, and two feet of piano wire. :)

Uhmmmm I think that you might have ment bailing wire, given that Piano wire will probably take a nick out of your knide blade.

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