You’d need a heat gun to melt the glue yes, I’ve done it many many times (a lot of clumsy people out there). Is it just the LCD or is the glass smashed too? To replace just the LCD also requires full disassembly of the laptop as you need to unhook the LCD cable which runs through the display hinge.
Regards Sam <http://www.facebook.com/macambulance> <http://www.twitter.com/macambulance> <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/macambulance/> MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen ACMT +44 (0)7747778022 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 8 Mar 2016, at 15:07, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote: > > Scratch that. Just seen online in a tutorial that step 1 is to melt the glass > glue with a heat gun! Unless someone knows something easier? I prefer Lego > style assembly!! > > Forget it, I'll call Home Insurance and worst case, a new iPad it'll be.... > > > > On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 3:03:03 PM UTC, mac98aop wrote: > Should have added, it's the Macbook aluminium unibody, late 2008 model (A1278) > > Thanks > > On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 3:02:31 PM UTC, mac98aop wrote: > Hey folks > > Well, my trusty MacBook hit the floor last night. Boots up fine, but LCD > kapoot. > > Can source LCD from thebookyard.co.uk <http://thebookyard.co.uk/> for about > £100, but how easy is it to replace myself? Anyone tried? > > I'm now no longer in easy reach of Sam! > > Thanks > > Adam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug > <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
