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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

How to Dismantle an Old iMac G3

We're going to have to take apart the old iMac so we have been researching how to do that.  We watched some YouTube videos and read some eHow instructions. There are some discrepancies in technique and tools needed, so we're going to stick to the official instructions from Apple. They are on ScribeD and you can see them online, but you have to pay to download them. We'll probably follow them on the computer as we do the dismantling.

For materials we did get an antistatic mat and an antistatic wristband if we want to save the hard drive and components. It's not been plugged in for many months now so it shouldn't be holding *too* much of a charge.. We will be careful about grounding nonetheless.  Art has a lot of small Phillips screwdrivers which will be needed. All of the tools are in a box on the table with the computer which is ready for dismantling.

Full Apple guide to disassembly (what we'll follow):

YouTube videos

eHow Guides (simpler, but lots of discrepancies)

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