Graham is the ASMR of computer repair. I always feel more relaxed after watching his videos.

Surprised the customer didnt smell plastic burning.

Superb as usual. Just enough words and very useful explanations of Mac quirks in the course of the job. Your calm and matter of fact approach is a rarity on American repair vids now hence the steady success of Australian and eastern European sites showing diagnosis to completion without drama and rambling.

You are an authentic computer repair man. True and honest; hard to find. An inspiration to me. Thank you very much for the videos. I just straightly love them. Keep up the good work and hopefully you'll get more subscribers (you deserve it!). Thanks again, Frank

And people continue buying laptops with glued batteries, SSDs integrated on the motherboard, soldered memory... great 🤦‍♂. Good job though!

your channel is incredible educative. love it! keep it coming.

Great video. It's nice to start the new year with a good repair!

i really like to details you give and the extra information you give also.....as you can take it as it is or listen to more of the info if needed.....damn would lover to come and watch you work.....good job matey

That was so therapeutic. 🙏 Thanks

Excellent work 👍😎 Very entertaining and informative repair video.

100%quality workmanship as always. Totally agree with you regarding Wera tools. Bought myself a set that came in a nice roll with velcro attached for neat and tidy storage. In fact as soon as i saw you using them i knew you were too quality. 😁

Thank you Graham that was very interesting you have alot of patience doing that stuff all the time

The Louis Rossmann of the UK. Love the video and the commentary. Louis always has problems getting parts and sometimes relies on donor boards. Do you have the same problems getting parts? or is it specific parts? Great video!

I’m surprised at the number of MacBooks I’ve had to fix that are simple disassembly/replace/reassembly like this! Great job.

Thank you for your technical tips ❤

Another interesting video, nice job once again. BTW just curious how much the spare parts cost you ?

Nice to see everything works first time.

Thanks to your and NorthridgeFix videos, I learnt to do micro soldering and repair complicated circuit boards. I profited from the sales of fixed devices. It paid for all my tools investment.

Everybody raves of the iFixit tools

OMG connecting a fan via the keybord ... this is really something only "Think Different" Apple can come up with ...

Hotdog pasta. A flatmate of mine, who was a chef no less, would make a giant pan of this and leave it out for days, just heaping some in to a bowl every now and then. I came back from a night out once and went for a smoke on the balcony. It was already light. I saw two cats fighting so grabbed a piece of hotdog from inside and threw it to try and separate them. Next minute, I see another cat hop over a fence in the distance, then two more on another balcony about 50m away. Then more, and more, and more cats appearing out of nowhere, all in different places. As far as I could see there were cats. There must have been minimum 30 cats. I’m launching pieces of hot dog as far as I can. They’re landing in gardens and on balconies. There was one balcony with two cats on just out of reach. Kept trying until I finally nailed it, launching this piece of hotdog as hard as I possibly could. It was such a surreal moment that I look back on quite fondly. I wonder if the cats ate them all or everyone wondered why the fuck there were pieces of hotdog on their balcony or in their gardens.

I use the Wiha 6-Piece Precision Screwdrivers (Pentalobe). Model No. 26794 when working on Macbooks. I also have the Torx set.

Definitely Wiha 398262 for the Pentalobe antenna screws, don’t think Wera do any Pentalobe, unless anyone knows if they have started doing them.

Nice video 😁. Did you check (just in case) if keyboard connector on motherboard (where first 4 pins were damaged) is okay? Connector pins may get damaged and/or bent, had that issue on some another connector. Thank you for the video and EVERYONE have amazeballz day 😁

Good video! Did the keyboard LED and Fan work? didn't see you test it.

A very interesting video again thnx.

Left arrow key was also melted by the speaker. You can see it on the video when you're removing the battery.

Excellent video.

No dissassemble!

Ifixit mantra kit is awesome

Sam Synthis is simply amaizing!

Dont worry its still the week before Christmas in my heart

You should try the dental floss method. Put isopropyl alcohol on the battery and slide from side to side and cut through the glue makes it easy to remove

21:37 I know that you have a new track pad Graham, but it's quite east to damage the track pad with that spudger when removing the middle cell. Trust me, ask me how I know 😄 Only ten screws to get the track pad out and it's probably quite serviceable. The spudger can potentially get between the track pad and the top case and rip components/ traces off the track pad.

Did you check the keyboard connectors, as the cable was fried, they’re maybe be burnt pins in the connectors, did you check every key on the keyboard worked?

I’ve had less stress and anxiety watching people capture deadly snakes. I don’t know how you do it. Just makes me never want to own another laptop. Desktops for life. Lol.

I would be so happy if you would get some sponsors! :) You deserve it!

I got wera and wiha pentalobes. They both feel great.

Graham try ifixit for the pentolope screw bits ifixit have lifetime warranty I have the Pro Tech tool kit, it comes in a nice organised roll

The only think I might of added is what I had on hand if the battery had gone nuclear.

bought a reconditioned mac air m1 that worked fine till rebbot then avtivation locked????? how much to repair??

Nasty short, huge crater, half a MacBook worth of parts... Oh boy. If that ain't a lesson on keeping liquids away from electronics, I don't know what is.

I would say the batteries are isolated from the heat sitting proud on the adhesive strips.

Have you had a look at the iFixit ones? I’ve got their small kit and it seems decent quality.

you can heat a run-of-the-mill lithium polymer cell to 60°C with no problem, at which point it will be too hot to touch anyway. So as long as you can work with it you will not overheat it. Be careful of your heating method though. Many heating methods have very imprecise thermostats, i.e. ovens are notorious for overshooting set temperatures by a large margin.

these post testers ?, is there a newer PCIe version that is actually obtainable ? just for post testing motherboards and stuff.

amazing how much better Thinkpads are for the avarage user

Nice vid.

brother be honest should i buy mac i am laptop/ pc user does these issue pop up in every mac like the SSD issue where 13V went through making the mac useless

My thought is LG needs to put three of those thunderbird ports on the board. Separated by at least a half inch separation. Don't have to be thunderbird could be three different ports for all I care but one hdmi would certainly benefit the user.

Hey, just have a question, what camera are you using to record your desk? Quality is awesome would like to get one of these. Thank you!

Good thing it doesn't have the flexgate issue yet

nice video. what was the total cost of the replacement parts?

Some good Screwdriver brands Strebito and vman

You could put that on a heating pad used for back pain that kind of heating pad. Just an idea 💡

21:30 - why does Peep Show S7 Ep 01 come to mind here :)

Bro may I know what test probe u r using is quite good and tip pointed for small parts..

Not sure if you know about Ifixit tools are great

hey a good old fashioned repair vid much better than live stream fiddling with ram brain damage!

you should return the old chassis to your customer.

Can't imagine a speaker could stop a computer from working? A normal computer sure I'm with you but this is an Apple product, the touchpad can make the webcam stop working and/or make it not boot. Apple is special, their engineering is such that they channel liquid directly to where it will cause the most damage, they put 48v backlight power a millimeter away from a .5v data line.

Wera has pentalobe #1, and 1.4 no idea what is the right size though.

Ifixit tools come with a lifetime guarantee as well

Wera do "PL 1.1" and "PL 1.4" pentalobe screwdrivers. PB Swiss also do Pentalobe screwdrivers, if you want what are possibly the best.

What's the name of the track used in the intro please? EDIT: Found it so please ignore (as I'm sure everyone has already!)

Since you pointed out to be careful with the alcohol .... we have a dead laptop at work that got a devastating liquid damage (completely spilled over the keyboard and let it settle for one day) and my colleages are just trying to get the gunk off by submerging the whole board + display assembly into alcohol... Any chance for the thing to survive? (I told them to clean it with alcohol and got them a toothbrush, but less did I know they were such savages XD)

When you discover a big obvious problem with a laptop or other electronics, do you contact the client and discuss what needs to be done? Thank you 🤓

iFixit?

Acetone works way better than iso

I'm guessing this was a cost effective repair?

👍

Wow😯

What a cool fault lol

IPA can and will melt certain types of plastic, neoprine around the keys, etc. Many cheaper type 12v motors don't even like the smell of IPA! Use IPA at risk and learn the hard way when it does cause damage.

The short did not cause any damage to the chassis, why are you only looking to increase the cost of the repair?

This video reminds me why I don't buy apple products unless there's literally no good alternative.

nice

noice

After seeing a Macbook Pro soldered on SSD model shit itself on another channel , You hope they are educated to back up more often than they go to the toilet

And that process of removing the battery is why I will never own a macbook.

It must be annoying that so many people own mac books, I cant stand them! But I guess that's the mainstay of a pc shop these days!

You can actually remove the trackpad?..😧😧😧. I'm going for a lie down....

Oof.

I bet all the bits cost you a pretty penny!

Why why does Apple glue the battery it's stupid

why even bother fixing it. Just tell the client that it was their foolishness to purchase a non-fixable Laptop from Apple. Inform them that Apple spend 40% of what you paid for this unit to engineer it to be non fixable. Sorry for your loss, Go buy an Acer or Asus.