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Re: Minimum necessary tools for working on your Macs

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In article <851c5536-e864-4e7f-a4d5-fe3802278289@googlegroups.com>,
Jack Shown <jackshown@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 11:22:03 AM UTC-7, Jack Shown wrote:
> >
> > Each member of my family has a Mac and, of course, they all come to me for
> > assitance.  I admit that I have not kept my set of tools up to date.  What
> > specific tools do you all recommend and, if possible, please provide a
> > recommended source.
> > 
> > Thanks a bunch.
> 
> Oops!  I'm sorry.  I meant hardware tools e.g. suction cups for the monitor
> of an iMac.  (I don't know where to buy these though.)  Torque wrenches.  (I
> don't know which to buy though.)

The more recent iMac models can't be opened with just suction cups.
They're glued together and require a lot of work to open up and put
back together. iFixIt gave the just released iMacs a fixability score
of just 1 out of 10.

The recent laptop models aren't much better either.

It's best left to the experts at an authorised repair centre if still
under warranty / AppleCare (and probably even if out of warranty) ...
at least if they screw it up they have to replace it for free.

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Minimum necessary tools for working on your Macs Jack Shown <jackshown@gmail.com> - 2015-10-19 11:21 -0700
  Re: Minimum necessary tools for working on your Macs nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-19 14:24 -0400
  Re: Minimum necessary tools for working on your Macs Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-19 21:15 +0000
    Re: Minimum necessary tools for working on your Macs Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-20 11:24 +0000
      Re: Minimum necessary tools for working on your Macs Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 10:46 -0400
      Re: Minimum necessary tools for working on your Macs Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-20 14:59 +0000
        Re: Minimum necessary tools for working on your Macs jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-10-21 04:40 +1300
          Re: Minimum necessary tools for working on your Macs Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-20 16:10 +0000
        Re: Minimum necessary tools for working on your Macs Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-21 00:37 +0000
  Re: Minimum necessary tools for working on your Macs Jack Shown <jackshown@gmail.com> - 2015-10-19 17:39 -0700
    Re: Minimum necessary tools for working on your Macs nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-19 20:40 -0400
      Re: Minimum necessary tools for working on your Macs Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-10-19 19:51 -0700
    Re: Minimum necessary tools for working on your Macs Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-10-19 22:49 -0400
    Re: Minimum necessary tools for working on your Macs Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-10-20 18:27 +1300
    Re: Minimum necessary tools for working on your Macs Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-20 11:25 +0000

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