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Swapped keyboard with great success

Adam Hupp -

Retina MacBook 2017

Retina MacBook 2017 Upper Case Assembly Replacement

Retina MacBook 2017 Upper Case Assembly Replacement

2 hours

Moderate

My Problem

My daughter spilled a pile of sand in her keyboard and I wasn't able to get it out with canned air etc.

My Fix

It went great, with the exception of a few issues described below.

My Advice

My only issues:

1) a few spots that called for Philips #00 where mine was actually #000.

2) The removal of the microphone looked tricky, requiring an Opener device w/ heat that I don't have. I just skipped that step, and luckily the replacement upper case had the microphone attached already. Not sure this step is necessary?

3) Powering up was scary since it took a while to come back on. The comments saying I need to charge it were really helpful here, it took two tries and only worked with a USB-C PD charger (which might be all that works with this laptop, I just didn't think of that at the time).

MacBook 12" Retina (Early 2016-2017) Upper Case with Keyboard Image
MacBook 12" Retina (Early 2016-2017) Upper Case with Keyboard

$199.99

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