[iBook] Re: iBook re-assembly/repair take 2

[Stefan King]

I think Jack might have put screws into the holes
by mistake.  Jack: look with a magnifying glass
through the holes in the bottom.  If you see the 
"+" of a phillips head in there already, this is not
a positive sign.  

Stefan

--- Joy Freeman <pagesbyjoy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jack,
> 
> The three screws on the very bottom of the case? I
> have no idea why you
> can't get those screws back in. In my case, the
> process of replacing them
> was exactly the reverse of the process of removing
> them--quite literally.
> You are using a T8 Torx driver, right? (I know; a
> simplistic question, but
> it is possible to take these out with other drivers,
> just not best.)
> 
> I remember the screws had a blue tinge, and I
> wondered if it was a way of
> color coding them for assembly. I don't remember any
> "blue stuff" beyond
> that--nothing like the grease in the springs in the
> battery compartment.
> 
> Okay, I just removed those three screws from my
> (admittedly only a 12")
> iBook and, indeed, they are just screws, with blue
> paint on the ends. The
> two that screw into the hinge area are quite long,
> the center one is short.
> None of them seem to "engage" except at the very
> ends--indeed, right about
> where the blue paint is.
> 
> I suspect that if they don't seem to engage (do they
> fall right out, or just
> never get "tight"?), that whatever they are supposed
> to screw into is either
> not lined up or possibly broken or simply stripped.
> Go to page 9 of 9 under
> the instructions for installing the fan. Click on
> the top picture to see it
> full size. See the two places where those screws
> (probably; I'm guessing)
> screw in. If you opened it up, I suspect you might
> find the problem there.
> It sort of looks like a metal bolt glued into a
> plastic tube. I suppose if
> that's true, the glue may have failed. Again, just
> guessing.
> 
> Joy   
> 
> 
> 
> Jack Countryman (jcountry at insightbb.com)wrote:
> 
> > The three screws shown being removed in page 6/14
> of instructions for the 14
> > inch iBook under hard drive replacement, are the
> ones that do not seem to go
> > back in place.  They come out with a bit of some
> sort of blue stuff on the
> > ends.  I'm not sure what that attached them to and
> did not find any way to
> > replace them so they stay put?  Any idea what they
> are supposed to go back
> > into, what he blue stuff is or why it is there? 
> Note also that while the
> > are take apart guides at ifixit are good, they do
> not extend to re-assembly,
> > when (as with these screws apparently) the two
> processes are different.
> > Caveat Emptor?
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> From: Joy Freeman <pagesbyjoy at gmail.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [iBook] Re: iBook
> disassembly/re-assembly for
> >> upgrade/repair 
> >> There are terrific take-apart instructions at
> http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/
> >> with generally good advice about how to avoid
> particular pitfalls
> >> Joy 
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> Jack Countryman (jcountry at insightbb.com)wrote:
> >>>  I thought I had seen a series of disassembly
> pictures a year or two ago,
> >>> but could not find them this summer when I had
> time to do this.  Anyone know
> >>> where to find them?  As Stephen reports,
> separating the case pieces without
> >>> breaking too much of the plastic is a challenge.
> >> ------------------------------
> >> From: James Paul Manley <listmonger at gmail.com>
> >> Subject: [iBook] Fixit Guide - Fixit Guide Series
> iBook
> >> 
> >> http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/
> >> ---
> >> James Paul Manley
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > 
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