Thanks for the video, i spilled water over my keyboard about a year ago and with your tutorial i was finally able to fix my laptop and everything works perfectly thanks so much !!!!
Well, I tried and failed. I have neither a heat gun, nor a variable temperature soldering iron. Tried it with what I have, a wood burning iron, which is functionally identical to a soldering iron. My idea was to turn it off once it started melting the plastic, and turn it on again when it got too cool. Plastic ended up sticking to the iron bad, making it difficult to get the new keyboard in place due to all the missing plastic. Had to melt the waste plastic onto what was left of the tabs to form the rivets again, and even then they were brittle when cool. After that I find out the keyboard I installed was faulty, or I damaged it during my shoddy install (several keys don’t register unless pressed very hard and double type sometimes). I’m going to put a Bluetooth keyboard on top of my keyboard and call it good. I don’t think I’ll attempt this again without better equipment 😅
Sir, a question. You soldered the rivets after putting the keyboard. Would that deform the rivets which will not fit for the metal case? I wonder how you got some rivets out
The only thing worrying my about doing this are the plastic rivets. You think its possible to remove them like you did with a blowdrier? I saw in another video someone removing the rivets with a box cutter and then soldering when reassemblying, but I was unsure if he was using solder and if thats ok for the laptop.
Dang, mine just started to break some months ago after almost 5 years of hard use. I thought I could repair it as good as new but with this kind of heatgun needed I guess its impossible for me.
Thanks for the video, i spilled water over my keyboard about a year ago and with your tutorial i was finally able to fix my laptop and everything works perfectly thanks so much !!!!
Great to hear! Good job!👍
Well, I tried and failed. I have neither a heat gun, nor a variable temperature soldering iron. Tried it with what I have, a wood burning iron, which is functionally identical to a soldering iron. My idea was to turn it off once it started melting the plastic, and turn it on again when it got too cool. Plastic ended up sticking to the iron bad, making it difficult to get the new keyboard in place due to all the missing plastic. Had to melt the waste plastic onto what was left of the tabs to form the rivets again, and even then they were brittle when cool. After that I find out the keyboard I installed was faulty, or I damaged it during my shoddy install (several keys don’t register unless pressed very hard and double type sometimes).
I’m going to put a Bluetooth keyboard on top of my keyboard and call it good. I don’t think I’ll attempt this again without better equipment 😅
Thanks alot for a detailed walkthrough i did same and achieved great results
That’s great to hear! 👍🏼
Sir, a question. You soldered the rivets after putting the keyboard. Would that deform the rivets which will not fit for the metal case? I wonder how you got some rivets out
The only thing worrying my about doing this are the plastic rivets. You think its possible to remove them like you did with a blowdrier? I saw in another video someone removing the rivets with a box cutter and then soldering when reassemblying, but I was unsure if he was using solder and if thats ok for the laptop.
I prefer the heating method so there’s no need to cut any material. But both ways work.
Dang, mine just started to break some months ago after almost 5 years of hard use.
I thought I could repair it as good as new but with this kind of heatgun needed I guess its impossible for me.
Why they made the keyboard replacement so complicated 😤
How much does the keyboard replacement cost
I bought new keyboard, not original, ~30$
insanity how difficult to replace keyboard
I agree, there's no point to make it that difficult.🤷♀
omg...
Oh this isn't something I'll be doing. Might as well throw the whole god damn thing away
Not difficult task?omg 😅