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Tearing Down

Some time in June 2003, the AC power connector in my PowerBook Pismo stopped working. Around that time, I decided not to repair the connector. Instead, I purchased an extra battery and an external charger, and put off the actual repair until ‘later’. Well, I’ve finally rounded up enough money to buy the part I need, and tonight I started the disassembly of the PowerBook. This is not for the faint of heart, and tearing down a laptop is much more difficult than tearing down your basic tower-style PC. The part I need to replace was located at the deepest regions of the machine, so I had to literally take everything else out to get at it. You can see photos of the process here.

The next step is to send my old part in to Pre-Owned Electronics. Once they receive it and verify that it’s repairable, they will send me out an already-repaired, refurbished, and tested part. Hopefully it should come in at around this time next week. Until then, we’ll be without the PowerBook. We’ll deal… we have two other computers.