Photo based devsigner whose had his hand on a mac since 1984.
The Newest mac project is a used MacBook Air 2011 with small ssd and bad or missing battery that I got off eBay the first of January. It was the lowest price and sight unseen with only 2 photos. It came and looked close to brand new with just a few odd scratches. Stickers on the bottom stated it was a refurbished mac but gather not from Apple because they never apply stickers. It runs a little slow with High Sierra, and I’m thinking of installing El Capitan because the menumeters is showing the measly 4gb memory is getting pretty maxed out with no apps running…
Replaced battery and added a OWC 500gb SSD, and it runs allot faster.
Better to invest in some Spudger tools and working the top case off since it can snap in two very easy.
I was successful with the dissembling the camera and will need to invest in a working logic board and maybe something that is part of the shutter. I was hoping the camera would be an easy fix but sometimes this isn’t this case.
I have been wondering what path I will take when I replace my battery contacts part and this looks like an ideal guide for how I can do it. I wondered why you don’t discharge the capacitor before removing ribbon cables. When I removed the top block off my nex-6 I did discharge the capacitor as what the service manual suggested before I removed the control dial and flash ribbon cables. Before I did it I found a youtube about using wires to the discharge contacts going to a light bulb to safely discharge the capacitor. The service manual suggests using a short jig R:1 k Ω/1 W but since I don’t have access to an electronics store nearby the youtube did the trick trouble free.
I installed a sata hdd caddy in my Powerbook and thought it did work it seemed to run slow. Might have been faster with a ssd... Good that I went back in my Powerbook since the right usb cable was loose and not working.
I replaced my logic board using the wrong guide (Model A1138) but luckily there was only a few differences between guides