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iMac Intel 27" EMC 2546

iMac Intel 27" EMC 2546 Adhesive Strips Replacement

iMac Intel 27" EMC 2546 Adhesive Strips Replacement

30 minutes - 2 hours

Moderate

My Problem

My HDD started failing, so I decided to replace it with a SSD.

My Fix

Went well. The detail of the walkthru is excellent.

My Advice

One hiccup, which was my fault. Step 14 suggests removing the adhesive backing from the strips on the chassis, but I decided to try to leave these on as I was positioning the screen in Step 15. After that bottom adhesive had made good contact, I found that the two vertical strip backings (#13 and #16) could not be fully removed! I did what I could to remove as much as possible, but there still exists a couple centimeters of backing entombed between the screen and chassis. This seems to pose no functional problem, and is not even cosmetically visible, but it was irritating trying to fish out backing during the most critical part of this repair (holding the screen high enough to reconnect cables). Overall, would do again.

iMac Intel 27" (2012-2019) Adhesive Strips Image
iMac Intel 27" (2012-2019) Adhesive Strips

$19.99

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