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heat gun Alternative for the glue

Hey guy's why didn't you use a flat iron like for ironing clothes to remove the back of the BT keyboard?

The first time i used it was for my Palm III once to replace the battery pack. I can imagine that this will work with this keyboard too.

Mine left bottom corner was disabled by a small dog that put his feet on it to look out of the window and i need to remove the back too. the whole corner from the caps lock to the cmd key doesn't work anymore. so i think a flat iron will work better with a paper in between if needed to solve the the glue issue.

Most heat guns are at least 150 or 300 degrees Celcius wich is way to hot for that stuff.

Grts

Z

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Here's the teardown I did on this keyboard. Even using a glue solvent, I don't know how you repair it:

Apple Wireless Keyboard (A1255) Teardown

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I'm guessing because the heat form a heat gun can be controlled easier since the heating element isn't in direct contact with the plastic. Using a flat iron on plastic and electronics sounds like an inherently bad idea to me, not only because if what i wrote above but also since it emits steam, not exactly what you want in your electronics.

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Not all Iron soles emits steam, on the lowest setting it doesn't you can always replace the paper with á towel.

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