XPost: comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 7/20/25 05:41, Java Jive wrote:   
   > On 2025-07-19 14:11, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>   
   >> [screws]   
   >>   
   >> Also, not all of them are the same thread, or the same length. So   
   >> using a single tin is problematic.   
   >   
   > I use a large clutter free workspace like, say, a cleared kitchen   
   > worktop, and as I remove the screws I place them within named circles on   
   > a sheet of paper which I place slightly apart from the rest of the work   
   > so that it will not be disturbed  -  depending on the laptop usually   
   > you'll need circles such as Keyboard, Palm Rest, HD, DVD, Screen, Base,   
   > etc.  That way I know which screws belong where, regardless of slight   
   > differences is length or thread, etc.   
   >   
      
   	You are blessed to live in a spacious place.  Before I got into computing   
   I found what had been a cafeteria table top.  I had eaten at that cafeteria   
   before so I recognized it.  I carried the heavy thing back to my apartment   
   and when I have some sort of work to do in real life as opposed to on the   
   computer I bring it out and set it on my bed to do my work with room on   
   the bed for various parts and the muffin tin for the screws. I wear   
   anti-static   
   gloves for all this sort of work. and havc a full set of screwdrivers   
   from the   
   days when Radio Shack was only a few blocks away at serveral locations.   
      
   	I am not very capable but I have the support of long experience and   
   the simplifications by the makers of computers.  I mean once you dug into   
   a 1980s Amiga 1000 you had a great mess of connectors and more copper   
   connecting pins than you could shake a stick at. And CBM used molded   
   68000 chips which were brittle and had to be replaced with a machined   
   chip which could stay the course. Now-a-days no more chip pulling and   
   filling memory cards with chips to enlarge the capacity, just open boxes   
   up and add 16 GB of ram or a Terabyte of SSD. Open the box the chips   
   or SSD come in may be the most difficult part of the procedure.   
   	Good luck to all you people who undertake the do it yourself route.   
      
   	bliss   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)