If you buy the unofficial adhesive strips they don't have a foam core and are a nightmare to cut without cracking the screen and once you have got the screen off it takes forever to remove the remaining adhesive. Buy the official Apple kit, the adhesive strips have a foam core and are easy to remove again if you need to, once the screen is off the remaining adhesive peels off with ease the cutter blade is very thin. There are two types of adhesive and two types of pizza cutter, you need to be careful which ones you buy. You don't need to use a heat gun at all, don't use one. Kind of like rolling a snowball so to speak. Another option is to use a finger pushing down and along the path of the adhesive. That is when the adhesive forces are the weakest. The best way to peel tape is to double back on itself so you are pulling horizontal to the remaining tape. Another strategy is as soon as you've removed tape pieces immediately go back and dab the remaining adhesive with what you pulled off.ģ. You can use canned air to get very low temps but I'd be nervous near any components like the camera or mic.Ģ. High temperatures or very low temperatures can weaken the tape adhesion to the substrate. Some removal tips I learned from some R&D folks when I worked at a company that made all kinds of tape, if you haven't tried them already.ġ. Given the cost of the kit from iFixit I doubt I'd use that VHB tape on a customer unless it was some kind of an emergency. I did buy some very narrow 3M autobody tape to try as a substitute but haven't tried it yet. So I just tossed in a spare SSD and secured the screen with painters tape. I have one I inherited from a customer which it turns out it had a bad HD.
CLEAN IMAC SCREEN UPGRADE
It's been a long time since I've had to upgrade one of those. I also use painters tape for temp securing the screen when ever needed.
CLEAN IMAC SCREEN MAC
I have a lot of Mac customers, and turning away the upgrade business on those machines is not an option.īut, if I could find a way to make the adhesive screen bs more tolerable that would be good.įirst, are you using a heat gun on the screen edge before the removal process as well as during cleanup? I've found that to work very well in making it easier and removing more of the adhesive. I'm not looking forward to doing the next one, even thought about farming it out to another local shop. When I'm putting it back together I use blue painters tape to hold the screen on for testing. I only buy replacement strips from iFixit. I'll find out soon as I have a 27" to work on too. Don't know if I had started with that if it would have been easier. It's done OK in the past, but now I realize that isopropyl alcohol that 90% or better is the preferred cleaner. I've been using denatured alcohol as a solvent to clean with. Probably spent 1.25 hours picking away, scraping, etc. 90% of the work was in removing the old adhesive. It's not something I do frequently, but when I do, I hate it. What are your tips and tricks and or best practices for working with iMacs that use adhesive strips to hold the screen on?
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