[P1] Power nib

[Kenny Feder]

All:

I can finally get back to all of you who kindly responded to my problem back
in late August. The power nib had broken off with the broken bit stuck in
the power port of my iBook. I tried your various suggestions to extract the
piece to no avail--and admit I got a bit squeamish when I tried to take the
back off of the iBook to access the port. Nothing worked and I was concerned
that I would cause serious damage to the machine. Luckily, I was able to
find a terrific shop that works on broken Macs (Microdoc in Oregon) which
was able to fix it for $118 (plus shipping). They were helpful and fast and
now my iBook is working perfectly again.

Thanks again for all of your help!

Ken


On 8/28/03 3:23 PM, "Kenny Feder" <harpofeder at comcast.net> wrote:

> Thanks for all of our suggestions but no luck yet on getting the broken nib
> out of the power port of my iBook (past warranty and no Apple Care). I can
> see the silly thing, but just can't seem to grab it with anything firmly
> enough to pull it out. Now I'm trying to solve the problem from the inside
> as Joe suggested. It would seem that taking the base off the ibook would
> allow access to inside of the power port. Okay, I have the three little torx
> screws out and unscrewed the feet. There's nothing holding the base on, at
> least from the outside of the machine, but it is attached as firmly as ever.
> Anyone know what else I need to do to release the bottom panel of the
> machine?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ken
>