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[* black] Between us and the battery is a moat of white, rubbery adhesive. It doesn't seem to be fazed by IPA, and we're reluctant to blast it with heat, so we carefully begin manual excavation.
[* black] [guide|121471|Once again|stepid=233898], our badges say ''Teardown Engineer'', but these AirPods teardowns are really more like like digging dinosaur bones out of a tar pit. Except the dinosaur is a lithium-ion bomb.
+ [* black] EOP? (Explosive Ordinance Paleontologist)
[* black] In the end, a little help from our squeezy vice friend deforms the case enough to separate the adhesive holding the battery in place, and out it comes.