I Have just done it by speeking to an expert i took the top of and in the middle of the locking mechanism there was i bit of silver latch (looked like a screw)and put a flat head screw driver on it and pushed it to the left (towards the drum ) the latch moved and the front just popped open.took seconds!!
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