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Banjo Concert
May. 10th, 2005 11:21 amMy father's Banjo Camp is this weekend. As usual, he is having a Banjo Concert to go with it. They expect to sell out so if you're interested, get tickets soon. Details at the above mentioned links.
May. 10th, 2005
Add "iBook surgeon" to my resume...
May. 10th, 2005 01:29 pmYesterday, I performed successful surgery on my iBook. The latch to keep the lid closed had broke some time back. I hardly use the thing and it's a minor inconvenience. But recently, an aquaintence was giving away some iBook parts from his disassembled iBook which I pounced at. Among other things, he was giving away his Airport card which I so desperately needed and not having the money to buy one, I jumped at this... many months ago. Last week I picked the stuff up. Hour and a half from Canton to Cambridge. 20 min from Cambridge to Waltham. Originally, he wasn't sure he still had the case but he did which means he had the latch.
I get everything home, one complication. My iBook is smaller than his. I don't know if it's 14 vs 15 or 15 vs 17 or 14 vs 17 but any which way, the parts are different sizes. Okay, but the latch looks about the same. Also, the touchpad button trigger is mounted on the latch device. So I gingerly take this whole thing out of the larger iBook and try to figure out how to get it into mine. I borrowed an allen wrench and a phillips jewelers screwdriver from my father (I have flatheads) to take the iBook apart. I had to search for something on line to get it all figured out. Screws hidden under the feet. Insulating tape that was no longer sticking where it should. Lots of little screws. Removing the airport card (which I had installed much easier last week), the keyboard, etc. Hours of gingerly prying the casing open to find... the latch for the other iBook is LONGER than this one. If I'd had sheet metal snips, I could have cut it. What was I to do? Well, I worked through removing the actual latch piece from the latch mechanism. Then I did the same with the one from my iBook. Then I got the non-broken one into the latch mechanism and I put everything back together with no excess screws anywhere.
The moment of truth, would it latch? Would it work? ( The answer is behind the cut... )
So I'm happy. iBook closes and stays closed. And I have a battery too big for my iBook. Also have a stick of memory (256MB I think) for an iBook and an iBook keyboard which I cannot verify it's usability. There's also the large iBook LCD screen which may or may not work. Not to mention numerous feet, screwed and other mounting hardware.
I get everything home, one complication. My iBook is smaller than his. I don't know if it's 14 vs 15 or 15 vs 17 or 14 vs 17 but any which way, the parts are different sizes. Okay, but the latch looks about the same. Also, the touchpad button trigger is mounted on the latch device. So I gingerly take this whole thing out of the larger iBook and try to figure out how to get it into mine. I borrowed an allen wrench and a phillips jewelers screwdriver from my father (I have flatheads) to take the iBook apart. I had to search for something on line to get it all figured out. Screws hidden under the feet. Insulating tape that was no longer sticking where it should. Lots of little screws. Removing the airport card (which I had installed much easier last week), the keyboard, etc. Hours of gingerly prying the casing open to find... the latch for the other iBook is LONGER than this one. If I'd had sheet metal snips, I could have cut it. What was I to do? Well, I worked through removing the actual latch piece from the latch mechanism. Then I did the same with the one from my iBook. Then I got the non-broken one into the latch mechanism and I put everything back together with no excess screws anywhere.
The moment of truth, would it latch? Would it work? ( The answer is behind the cut... )
So I'm happy. iBook closes and stays closed. And I have a battery too big for my iBook. Also have a stick of memory (256MB I think) for an iBook and an iBook keyboard which I cannot verify it's usability. There's also the large iBook LCD screen which may or may not work. Not to mention numerous feet, screwed and other mounting hardware.
