Recovering non-responsive buttons on 42S

[GreyUser]

(10-01-2020 11:14 AM)BillBee Wrote:  Another good link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8wS95wK4bI

I don't know if Logan is a member here but I have watched a lot of his great vids.

-B

IMO A rather poor opening method. Use the common method of reducing the heat stakes with a twist drill. You will absolutely bugger up the case and probably bend the crap out of the aluminum bezel with the method in that video.

Next issue is choice of foam pad replacement material. Worst choice ever. That 3M double sided tape is acrylic foam which has horrible compression memory, the exact opposite of what you want which is either a polyurethane or silicone rubber based material.

As for removing the logic board, you really should use a pair of duck bill pliers. Anything else just makes the job unnecessarily more difficult.

Yah, okay, it’s on 20S, no huge loss. But a 42S? Please don’t abuse a 42S like that, is it totally unnecessary.