Glove Winner: DIY iPod Repair And Upgrade
By Chuck Cage
Though he wasn’t exactly clear what was damaged (or unsatisfactory) in the first place, we thought we’d toss a pair of gloves Karl Palutke’s way for having the guts to tear into his slightly-older iPod with nothing but hand tools and hope — and post the photos to Toolmonger’s photo pool.
Hopefully the project ended as well as it started. And Karl, if you have a moment, why not stop by and fill us in on the details in comments?
Toolmonger’s Photo Pool [Flickr]
December 17th, 2007 at 11:03 am
The ipod in question was accidentally dropped into a bucket of buffer solution. Upon retrieval, solution literally poured from the headphone jack and the power connector. The ipod was DOA.
I disassembled it, and cleaned all of the individual pieces with isopropyl alcohol, then let them dry for a couple days under a heat lamp to try to get all of the moisture to evaporate. After reassembly, the ipod worked when connected to external power, but the battery was ruined. I purchased a battery on-line, and swapped with the original. After replacement, the ipod functioned normally. At least until the hard drive died a few months later.
December 17th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Some of the solution is visible on the right-hand half of the shell in the picture.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Awwww, you mean to tell me that I might have won some gloves if I had documented my Blackberry LCD replacement earlier this week?
I was joking around with my boss and asked when I was getting a Blackberry, so he rummaged around and found a new, but broken BB whose backlight was dead. I looked around and found another dead BB that had a good screen, cracked them open (not literally, I had to go out and buy a precision screwdriver set), and swapped screens and the case (the other one had fewer dings and scratches that the one I received)
oh well, I’ll have to remember that next time.
December 23rd, 2007 at 4:55 pm
i recently replaced my ipod battery too. It worked fine for a while afterwards but now I think the hard drive is just about gone because it is acting very flaky. It might make more sense to just buy a new ipod than go down the path of replacing the battery. It seems like by the time the battery goes south the hard drive isn’t far behind.
January 1st, 2008 at 4:04 am
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