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good trick with the string

Mike!! You rule man!! I had ordered a battery off Amazon and watched the OWC video to see if I felt comfortable pulling this off. When I saw that they put everything back in and THEN installed the battery, it started to feel like all that extra work was kind of superfluous. Found your video next and less than an hour later my trusty mid-2014 Macbook was back up and running. Even better is that my trackpad works again after getting that terribly swollen battery out. I ended up using dental floss cause that's what was handy. It only broke once. 😁 Definitely just have to be patient working that adhesive away but this seriously works like a charm. Thanks so much man. Hope this helps a lot of other folks tackle this repair too.

Excellent video man. Hope you're still looking at some comments. I just need to know what brand and model of battery you've used, there are way too many brands out there on the compatible type. Thanks a lot.

is it unwise to use a vaccum to clean out the computer once its open?

i use this method on every macbook battery, kite string is good, but its a little thick, i use braided fishing line. its very strong and thinner cuts through the adhesive easier.

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Can you make a Remake of your skull but bigger?

Thanks for showing both the removal and installation of the new battery. I also have a mid-2014 MBP and am about to replace battery and swap in a 2TB NVMe as well.

No need to disassemble anything, just loosen the speaker screws so you can partly lift them up and slide a long blade palette knife under the old battery to cut the adhesive. Mine is a mid 2012 A1398 and it was really crusty adhesive. Cleaning off the residue is a pain, and I scuffed the base of the touchpad a bit.....hope it still works, as the supplier sent me the wrong battery so I couldn't test.!

better if you remove speakers before applying acetone

very practical. thanks

Amazing! I should have watched it before I replaced my battery. It's okay at least I know the trick

Thank you for this brilliant idea!

Thank you so much! I managed to clean my FX150 as the body was virtually the same. Easiest repair i’ve done but wouldn’t have done without this

I have this job on my 2015 coming up, but I'd probably figure out a way to maybe use only a few of those glue strips and not all of them to make it easier for next time.

I am having trouble with the touch pad but probably ne’er to remove battery to get to that. Swollen battery may be causing the pad problem. I guess I’ll be ready to replace both.

Quick and easy. Thank you!

Thanks, man. Your video is straight forward. It's easy to follow.

Great video! Literally saved my day. Cheers!

Glad I found this video. So much better than showing a metal knife behind the battery. One question though. The acetone might damage the speakers on the edges I am thinking. Is the acetone even necessary?

Thank you, brought back memories of camping in that building with my son and his Montessori class.

Do Apple stick the batteries down merely to discourage replacing them? This method makes so much more sense and I wouldn’t be surprised if Mac repair shops do exactly the same thing, tho keep quiet about it. After all, given the quotes I’ve been given, it would be a nice little earner for just 40 minutes work. Would it be an idea 1) to allow the acetone a little mor time to dissolve the adhesive? And 2) to use the acetone on a swab to soften the remnants of the adhesive when cleaning the space for the new battery?

Ii have industrial gloves used in a food factory so no stains lol

I ruined my favourite black dress with bleach😖😖

Thank you

Great video and appreciate your honesty and not editing it to pieces…so what was the total time would you say start to finish?

I just purchased this at Lowe’s on clearance and an extra 10% off because it was the floor model for $191… Can’t beat the 10 year warranty 🙌🏼😁

What if you place battery without taping it? Because it's a pain to remove again

Many thanks! I used a braided nylon cord used for stringing beads. It cut the glue with no solvent softening. I found that the solvent in UK "Brasso" metal polish helped move the pads that remained. I saw no need for the new glue pads - easier if I need to do it again.

I will try using 2 bic pen instead of 2 screw driver.

They could glue heat shield tiles onto the space shuttle with that double sided tape 😂

Hi Mike, Thanks for sharing your battery replacement method. I just followed it, though I also completely read iFixIT's, and all went well up to now. Just need to wait for the new battery to fully charge + the 2 hour charging recommended, and then will get a brand new Mac :-) I presume that when being very careful and meticulous, the operation should runn fine. Will confirm in a couple of hours though!

i would not even bother glueing it back down, it's not going anywhere.

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Great video! I’m really experienced at electronics repairs, but even I was intimidated by the iFixit method. 😳 This is so much better. Thanks for sharing! 👍🏻 One more tip for folks: When spraying inside of fans with compressed air, stick a toothpick or pencil or something between the fan blades to keep them from spinning when you blow air into them. Sometimes forcing them to spin with air can damage the fans. 👍🏻

The Singularity is nearer

This is art

Why did CZcams recommend me this? I'm not at all unhappy with this, it's so random, LOL… And the implication that since Darth Vader felt a disturbance in the Force, Alf is somehow Force sensitive or Force user capable.

Impressive

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I have two questions, the MacBook I'm looking to do this with has a swollen battery I'm just wondering if that makes it more risky and second question is why not just leave out re attaching the adhesive it doesn't seem to have an important function other than to make replacement more difficult there isn't alot of room for it to move to begin with.

My thought came true.. someone has done this! What a great privilege it would be to be able to do this.

This show was so awesome. Thanks for it!

Incidentally, my birthday is on Mol Day which is the 23rd of October. And 23 is the number of degrees at which the Earth is tilted on its axis. I think that's cool and coincidental.

Next episode: i 3d printed my unborn son

someone need to reconstruct face from this skull model, we want to know how its will look like. 😁

Check out a program called mimics, i've seen results of others using it and it's great. you can also import to Meshlabs, then choose something like analyze/repair and that may do it depending on your accuracy constraints when you "make solid" before repairing. I'm still learning Meshlabs, but it's by far the easiest one i've worked with. Also with some editing you could eliminate a-lot of the support structures on that skull by changing your overhang constraints in a program like Cura. Anyhow VERY NICE WORK!!!!!

I did a similar thing to get a Sirius xm thing off the dash of a used car I bought. Only difference was I used 10 lb fishing line, and goof off.