Category: Fixers | Page 29

We’re inspired by people who put things back together. Meet the crafty folks pushing the boundaries of repair.

New iPad Opening Tool

We’ve been searching high and low for a better way to get inside the iPad. Our current method requires industrial strength suction cups, a heavy-duty 1500 watt heat gun, a…

April 1, 2012

by Kyle Wiens - iFixit

Repair Stories

The Bad Kind of Crunch: A Broken LCD Screen

Italian air traffic controller Luca Vetturi closed his laptop and heard a sickening crunch—upon opening it again, he discovered that he had accidentally left an earphone inside. Spider-webbed cracks spread…

March 24, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Repair Stories

The Right Tools: Two Nano Battery Replacements

Trevor Bugera submitted a story this week about fixing two iPods—his wife's Mini and her friend's Nano. Neither iPod would hold a charge, and the Mini recently started showing the…

March 11, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Repair Stories

It’s Alive! Two Broken iBooks Become One Working Computer

When Juan Ordonez's elementary-school-aged daughter started clamoring for a computer, he had an idea. Rather than buy her a brand new laptop and pay for all kinds of fancy capabilities…

March 10, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Fixers

Women in Computers: Don’t You Know that Grandma’s the Fix-It Girl?

Jodi Spangler has worked a lot of interesting jobs. She climbed telephone poles for a while in Michigan (until she fell off a pole from twelve feet in the air).…

March 9, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Tools

iMac 21.5″ and 27″ Dual Hard Drive Kits!

Our most-recent iMac 21.5" teardown revealed an interesting tidbit: unused mounting points that were curiously in the shape of a 2.5" hard drive. After a bit of investigating, we found…

March 6, 2012

by Miro Djuric

Tools

Secondhand Tools: Dozens of Drills

At the Lajpat Rai electronics market in Delhi, secondhand tools wait for customers. The drills are so artfully displayed—I wonder how much packaging material it would save if Home Depot…

March 4, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Fixers

Inside the Mind of a Master iFixit Answers Repair Tech

Ralph Myrick has been repairing computers since the very beginning. In 1960, he had just graduated from a 9-month Navy radar repair training school. While on hold, waiting for transfer,…

February 27, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Fixers

How Greg Kono Started the West Seattle Fixers Collective

Greg Kono wasn't looking to start an organization. He'd spent almost twenty years moving around the west coast: studying environmental design and sculpture, building traditional Japanese kites out of bamboo…

February 20, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Repair Stories

Fixing a Cracked Screen on Break

iFixit user ShopperCruz submitted a story this week about how he fixed a broken screen on his iPhone 4S. He explains, "I had cracked my brand new iPhone 4s digitizer…

February 19, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit