I decided to put an array of various thickness plastics together and use them instead. This could be relatively easily solved by looking at the gap between the iMac Aluminium Chassis and the Display. The information that I had was that you couldn’t cut more then ‘3/8 of an Inch’ which equates to ‘9.5mm’, the information that I didn’t have was how thick their cutter was. iFixIt doesn’t ship to Australia and their Australian Store didn’t stock the tool, a few cheaper alternates existed on eBay but they were like $20 or required a three week wait for it to be shipped from China, expensive or delayed wasn’t an option.īasically the tool that iFixIt offers is a pre-cut wheel that is a specific size so that when used like a pizza cutter around the iMac Display will cut just the right amount to remove the adhesive but not damage any internal components. What got me curious is the term ‘different tool’, what is a different tool? The only option discussed is the ‘ iMac Opening Tool‘. You risk severing antenna cables and causing serious damage’. If using a different tool, insert no more than 3/8″ into the display. On the iFixIt Tutorial it states this warning right from the get go ‘The hub on the iMac Opening Tool will keep you from pushing the wheel in too far. One of the first friction points that I stumbled across is in the very first step, removing the display. The points I will be discussing here are more of a DIY approach to what is on offer at iFixIt. I used the iFixIt Tutorial for this repair and I would have been stuck without it. While I will be discussing some alternates to the tools that iFixIt recommend, I still 100% support their work. The team at EveryMac give a solid overview of the model here. It’s Model Identifier is ‘iMac 14,2’ and it might also be referenced as ‘A1419’ or ‘EMC 2639’. The iMac Model that I will be referencing in this tutorial is the ‘ Late 2013 27′ iMac‘. Alternates to the iFixIt ‘iMac Adhesive Strips’.Do you need an ‘OWC In-Line Digital Thermal Sensor Cable’?.

Alternates to the iFixIt ‘ iMac Opening Tool‘ and ‘ Plastic Cards‘.

Now I’m going to run you through what I learned. So I decided to take a punt and go with what I thought might work.

There seemed to be a lot of grey areas that weren’t definitively covered which was frustrating. Recently when I purchased a second hand ‘ Late 2013 27″ iMac‘ I had a lot of trouble finding information online relating to certain aspects of the Internal Hard Drive Replacement Process.

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