Is it posible to clean the trackpad?
I have spilled wine on my trackpad and it does not click anymore but still works.Is there a easy way to clean it?
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You can actually pull the trackpad out of the topcase... it's not too difficult, you have to remove the battery which, if I'm not mistaken, requires the tri-wing driver. The trackpad is also a tri-wing. Once you have the trackpad out... be very careful with it and try a *little* water with a paper towel and clean whatever looks like it has wine on it. Do *not* use water on a circuit board. After cleaning it, let it dry for a few hours before reassembling it.
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When you say remove it from the topcase...you still have to open the computer from beneath right or can you remove it directly from the top of the trackpad?
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some macbook pro's click pad's use the same clicker piece as the ipod center button. havn't done this myself but my boss replaced that piece with one from a broken ipod 5th gen board to get the clickpad to work again.
this was on a 13 inch 2009 core 2 duo so if it's the same model and you take the track pad out and you look at the bottom side of it you will see what im talking about.
-it may depend what year yours is though because i noticed that they changed the design on the 2010 ones... may still use the ipod clicker though.
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