On Jul 22, 2009, at 5:16 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:

A better question woulf be "what problems are you having with iFixit's
guides? They're quite good, in my opinion, certainly as good or better
than any Apple service guides I've seen.

Bruce Johnson
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— My discomfort stems from several other PowerBook and iBook take- 
aparts in which I nearly caused myself disaster, but was truly  
fortunate not to; and also by several other take-apart jobs I realized  
I needed to do because of the apparent clumsiness of those who had  
caused the problems I found myself trying to repair/replace.

I've found several places in the instructions I've followed where I  
had questions I felt were obvious which were not addressed by the  
instructions. One, for example, is how, exactly can one extract a  
certain rather inaccessible screw, or how not to lose it in the bowels  
of the machine. Another is how to replace some of those screws in  
nearly inaccessible places. It would be helpful if I knew whether it  
would be helpful to use a magnetized screwdriver or other tool (and  
when not to.)

A problem I've encountered with the ifixit.com guides is the narrow  
color scheme of those screw-removal diagrams in which several  
different dimension screws need to be removed. These tend to have  
several similarly colored circles around the screw locations on the  
same photograph, and its very difficult to impossible for me to  
differentiate between some of these similarly colored orange to red  
circles. I wish they would select from among a broader color palette  
for this reason.
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