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I recently scratched my Nokia E61 quite badly. I decided to order replacement parts and to replaceme the cover and the case. I don’t like service points so I took the freedom to replace to cover on my own. The procedure will probably void your warranty, but then, how should they find out you changed the cover? As long you don’t brake things it probably wont void your warranty from an effective point of view.

In order to change the cover of my Nokia E61 I had to take it apart. I took a few moments to make pictures along the process. If you need instructions on how to remove the cover of your own E61, then follow the link to the E61 gallery.

http://blog.petralli.net/photos/v/takingapartmbp/

I had a little accident on my notebook a few weeks ago. While I was working very late (5-am in the morning) I poured a substantial amount of very sugared liquid over my two week old system . While the liquid in question shall stay unnamed, the notebook was a MacBook Pro 17 inch! You might guess my reaction… I was lucky to turn the system off immediately and shook most of the liquid out of the notebook. I also used some compressed air to get the liquid out of some nastier places of the new MacBook. Finally, and luckily(!) the system was running again flawlessly… until the keyboard started to annoy me after two more weeks. It got sticky and keys were not responding well anymore. As I pushed a key it took 1-2s for the key to pop out again. Since I really like to write fast on my keyboard this was starting to become a bigger problem.

So I decided to take the MacBook apart, disassemble the keyboard and wash it under flowing water.

As I found out on googling about similar accidents with liquids, they seem to happen quite often. So I decided to document the process with a picture gallery. Maybe you found this page because you had the same kind of luck I had or maybe you’re just here to see the innards of a new MBP 17-inch. Which ever way, enjoy the pictures .

A word of caution: DO NOT TRY THIS YOURSELF UNLESS YOU ARE WELL-ENOUGH SKILLED. YOU CAN BREAK OR EVEN COMPLETELY DESTROY YOUR MACBOOK. IF YOU ARE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH YOUR SYSTEM CONTACT APPLE SUPPORT FOR PROPER SERVICE. YOU ALONE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU ARE DOING WITH YOUR SYSTEMS!

http://blog.petralli.net/photos/v/takingapartmbp/