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Keyboard removal - no broken glass!

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Keyboard removal - no broken glass!, It's free!: crwdns2935265:00crwdnd2935265:01crwdnd2935265:03crwdne2935265:0 Keyboard removal - no broken glass!, It's free!: crwdns2935265:00crwdnd2935265:02crwdnd2935265:03crwdne2935265:0 Keyboard removal - no broken glass!, It's free!: crwdns2935265:00crwdnd2935265:03crwdnd2935265:03crwdne2935265:0
It's free!
  • If your experience goes like mine, once the bottom antennas are free the glass will be ready to lift up.

  • Lift a little, then tilt it to "open like a book" from right to left. You'll have to release the ZIF lock for the keyboard cable.

  • Remove the black sticker on top of the lock holding it in place

  • With a plastic spudger or fingernail, delicately lift the lock tab. It lifts up away from the cable (moving from left to right).

  • After that, the cable should slide free on its own!

  • Now, you just have to free the antennas from the glass. I suggest adding lots more heat, now that you can work safely away from the battery.

  • Set it on top of a hot compress, drip isopropyl alcohol on it, and peel back the adhesive(s)'' slowly and delicately!'

  • The antenna traces are orange-brown copper printed on the other side of black paper. You can see them, broken, in the 3rd image here. I should try to draw the shape of each antenna here to illustrate what to avoid, but I don't have those pictures yet.

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