Need a laptop dissassembly toolkit

[Freshgeardude]

Well, I am in charge of the technology department of my school. Everyone has to have a laptop (mandatory). Realistically, the entire school is suppose to have all tablets, but this is the first year and it is a transition year so they are allowing regular laptops to people.

its a laptop for every person from 6-12 and my school is kinda small, only being ~300 in all of those grades.

as with any amount of massive laptops given to 11 to 18 year olds, there is going to be problems. mostly software, but sometimes hardware.

The good thing about the tablets is that they have full accidental warranty, so we dont have to worry about most hardware problems.

but there are people with problems like "the pen getting stuck" and such which we can take care of without getting a brand new laptop, but for that, for example, ive been using plyers where there might be a better tool for that job.

so here came yesterday. My best friend with a regular laptop somehow managed to get the power adapter broken, as in the place to plug in it from the power cord. The plastic that held the thing in place broke. the thing was "pushed in" per say, except it was a wire, so it was wobble around. I took apart his laptop, glued the peice back and got it running in an 1hr 15. it was quicker for me to fix it than to send it in to toshiba to do it (2-3 weeks) being that every class in on the computer. (dyknow if you have heard of the program)

in the process i scratched some places that he didnt really care. I also had primitive tools, having to use a flat head to take off snap on peices, etc.

The school was so impressed that they are willing to buy a couple of toolkits. ( a giant one is ok) to let me work on other computers in the future.

So! after my story, lol, I need some toolkits that will help for disassemble of laptops look professional and easy. Looking to ask on here since i assumed you guys probably have bought these type of kits before. they are willing to spend a decent amount. after a quick google, i saw some for 30 bucks, which is a good price.


Cliffs: need some decent laptop toolkits for dissasembly. around 30ish. looking to ask on here since you guys probably have bought some kits before


Thanks in advance

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[lxskllr]

I've never need much. I do most of my work with a Swiss Army knife. Between that, and some cheapy dollar store screwdrivers, I can do everything I need to do.

 

[xanis]

I bought a screwdriver set at Home Depot not too long ago to do some upgrades for my laptop (RAM + new HDD). It was ~$10 and it came with some useful bits like #00 Phillps and flatheads, and some small Torx bits. The thing is magnetic too, which is nice.

EDIT: this is the exact one I got.

 

[Crono]

There's a toolkit? I've pretty much just used a small screwdriver set.

 

[Gunbuster]

Call dell and get the plastic case pry thing. I call him Mr Pointy.

Really all you need is a torx driver. this: http://www.swissarmy.com/Multi...ourself&product=53919& and a longer philips I got free from toshiba is all I have ever needed.

 

[datalink7]

This aught to do it.

 

[l0cke]

Wiha makes the best small screwdrivers, ever, period.

http://www.wihatools.com/pro_Precision.htm

They are just so much better than any other of those cheap "jeweler's screwdrivers" it's not even funny.

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: Gunbuster
Call dell and get the plastic case pry thing. I call him Mr Pointy.

This + a micro screw driver set is all you really need.

Here's one: Text

 

[WildHorse]

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[CZroe]

I had to take apart a laptop to fix the very same issue. Two of the four screws holding the heat dissipation plate (that contacts the heat pipes/heat sink) had their heads twist right off. I salvaged it by re-arranging the screw posts so that the two remaining screws & posts were opposite each other diagonally. I told the owner to buy a universal power adapter with replaceable tips and epoxy one of those tips into the repaired connector because, otherwise, it would break again (we almost always saw DC jack repairs return). The idiot didn't listen to me, it broke again, he brought it back, I opened it up... and a third screw head twisted off, making it impossible to functionally put back together. I warned him.

Now, I've always wondered... what laptop tool kit could prevent that? Something to heat/cool the screw so that the threads loosen?

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Need a laptop dissassembly toolkit

Really?

 

[Eureka]

I took apart my laptop with one screwdriver and my fingers. Then reassembled it with a new casing from ebay. If you need anything, its an ESD strap.

Originally posted by: PlasmaBomb

Need a laptop dissassembly toolkit

Really?

That is just awesome.

 

[Paperlantern]

The red and black Husky multi bit screwdrivers (small ones, these aren't the standard multi bit screwdrivers, they have a black and a red handle cap with a gray handle), along with a plastic case opener, a set of pliers (like a set of 4, small pliers), a magnet tool, a dental pick set and as someone else said, a "case cracker", or plastic case tool, is what my toolkit for the last 6 years has consisted of. Its all Ive ever needed for EVERY laptop IVE EVER worked on since then. I also have a set of bits and and a multi bit screwdriver as well. With all that and the screwdriver, ive also had no issues with any printer anyone's thrown at me either.

CZroe: What type of laptop was this? There are a couple brands that used a locktight resin no thier assembly screws that when heated over and over would harden and literally cement the screws into the posts, normally this isnt an issue, but not when the torque needed to twist the screw out of the post exceeds what the entire POST can handle before it twists completely free of the motherboard.

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: Paperlantern
The red and black Husky multi bit screwdrivers (small ones, these aren't the standard multi bit screwdrivers, they have a black and a red handle cap with a gray handle), along with a plastic case opener, a set of pliers (like a set of 4, small pliers), a magnet tool, a dental pick set and as someone else said, a "case cracker", or plastic case tool, is what my toolkit for the last 6 years has consisted of. Its all Ive ever needed for EVERY laptop IVE EVER worked on since then. I also have a set of bits and and a multi bit screwdriver as well. With all that and the screwdriver, ive also had no issues with any printer anyone's thrown at me either.

CZroe: What type of laptop was this? There are a couple brands that used a locktight resin no thier assembly screws that when heated over and over would harden and literally cement the screws into the posts, normally this isnt an issue, but not when the torque needed to twist the screw out of the post exceeds what the entire POST can handle before it twists completely free of the motherboard.

IIRC, it was some kind of Toshiba. The VAST majority with DC plug issues were Compaq 1200 series (this was ~2003), but this one wasn't. Also, it wasn't the posts that twisted off their threads, it was the screws that go into them. The posts were arranged around the four corners of the CPU socket and raised just high enough for the heat spreader to be screwed down over the CPU with four screws going through the spreader and into the threaded holes in the top of the posts. They were tiny little screws with somewhat thing "large enough" heads. The screwdriver had a firm lock and a nearly effortless turn would just twist the head right off the screw threads, leaving that part stuck inside the post.

 

[Paperlantern]

Ahhhh, i see what your saying, no, Ive never had that happen. The posts the screws were screwed into would twist right out of the motherboard, or the screws would keep thier heads, but the head would round out the philips head making it impossible to get a bite anymore. I feel for you on this issue. Honestly i wouldnt have even allowed him to use it with only two screws, course, I was trained by toshiba to never use a machine without a COMPLETELY properly seated heatsink assembly.