Stanton Mitrany wrote: > > 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 > ****** > > — 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.)
I've run into those problems but a magnet or tweezers have always sufficed. iFixit has to strike a balance between enough and too much detail. But I have always found their instructions to be good and haven't found any others that were as good (mind you once I found iFixit I didn't look a lot further). > > 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. I have encountered that, the red and orange are close. I can tell the difference but I know many people do have more limited color perception. I kind of wish they used lines pointing from the table of screws to the points on the picture. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
