Once I replaced a hard drive in a MacBook and had a screw left over. It still worked- I no longer have the computer but if anyone wants it, I still might have the screw!
> On Jan 5, 2018, at 12:45 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah, fixing iPhones is tricky. I have repaired a few, and I did replace one > 5s screen with a fingerprint scanner and got it to work ok, but I could never > get its proximity sensor to work again. Oh well. > > I even replaced a whole case on a 5 one time. I thought it would be cool to > give one of my daughters a pink iPhone model that Apple never made in pink. > (It’s amazing what kind of oddball stuff you can find on eBay!) Never again. > That was a LOT of work taking everything out of the old case and putting it > in the new one. They never wanted it so I ended up selling it for about what > all the parts cost me. > > But I did it. Pre-touch-sensor, though, so I didn’t have THAT to contend with > on that one. > > I may not be the best iPhone repairman around, but I AM game! Been > obsessively taking stuff apart for half a century. I see no end to it. I have > a sad story about a Nikon F that is, even after 4 decades, still too painful > to talk about. > > And now there’s iFixit.com that just feeds my insanity. > > PLEASE everyone, don’t make the bad life choices I have. Just take your stuff > to TechRestore! > > (Wow, that escalated quickly!) > > Jonathan > > > >> On Jan 5, 2018, at 12:00 PM, Bill Rising <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Jan 5, 2018, at 11:05, Jonathan Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Did you replace the button, Bill? >> >> No, I moved the old button over from the old screen, so if I damaged >> something, it is the one button that will work. > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > [email protected] > > Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group > Next Meeting: 1/23/18 > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=gc08qLJnuk5usoMJ_1M-y6E_yvpE4lGWXukVUxgygXI&s=E9syDSKvJjOB3WcB4Pdq2jrEDKdMHNq1HbYXqQ5dCqY&e=> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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