Re: Adventure iPhone Repair via iCracked!

Posted by Roger Critchlow-2 on May 11, 2012; 5:12am
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2012/5/10 Steve Smith <[hidden email]>

Do you have any tricks?  I tried tweezers but heaven help you if they "pinch" sending the screw across the room!  They're all the size of a period at the end of this sentence.

I hit the vision wall myself a few years ago... I've not had an eye test, but what was an acute 20/20 is now pretty lame when it comes to small things up close.  I use a hands-free magnifying glass, the kind that come from China for like $3.99 at Harbor Freight?  I also used the highest power reading glasses I had laying around (I can hardly stand to use reading glasses, they make me crazy, but sometimes they are the only option).

Haven't been rebuilding any phones, yet, but dealing with surface mount components for kit building is much the same.

 

Head mounted magnification, the visor thingy with replaceable lenses in it, absolutely indispensable for years around here.  

Tweezers are difficult if you don't practice with them under magnification, you need to develop a completely different force feedback loop for handling tiny parts.

The tiny screws may be non-magnetic.  That would require balancing the screw on the tip of the screwdriver, pointed up, and bringing the hole to it.

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