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Keyboard removal - no broken glass!

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Keyboard removal - no broken glass!, Free three sides: crwdns2935265:00crwdnd2935265:01crwdnd2935265:02crwdne2935265:0 Keyboard removal - no broken glass!, Free three sides: crwdns2935265:00crwdnd2935265:02crwdnd2935265:02crwdne2935265:0
Free three sides
  • Once you've gotten a tool inserted along one short side, cut it free with patience, heat, and alcohol. Then, repeat the previous step to get into the other short side.

  • Drip alcohol along the seam between glass and body to help soften adhesive. Re-heat the hot compress and let it sit over the seam, too, to help.

  • After both short sides are free, you can break the adhesive free from both haptic motors (circled in purple in step 2).

  • They're much deeper inside than the edge adhesive, so I cut a plastic card in half to gain some room, then reached in with 3-4cm of aluminum can tool to slice through that adhesive. It's gummy clear adhesive, not the black foam like around the edges.

  • Along the left and right, the adhesive only reaches to ~3-4mm in from the edge. Along the top and bottom, some sections are thicker or more recessed, but usually only about 8mm, never more than 10mm (except the haptic motors)

  • Use extra gift cards, notecards, square bits of plastic, etc. as "bookmarks" to keep the adhesive from sticking to itself in areas you've cut loose.

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