The general public is not sympathetic to this. They just want you to make the lights & plugs work again. Myself, the first tool I'd reach for is a hatchet.
If this was a junction box with the same cubic inch capacity, would that make the job any easier? I only ask this because of my past quaestions about custom made junction boxes that are 4x4x whatever that you could possibly fit several hundred #12's into.
Tom
[This message has been edited by Tom (edited 08-24-2001).]
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.