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Pixel Cluster - help needed cant get it apart

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Pixel Cluster - help needed cant get it apart

Post by davrostavros » Sat Aug 05, 2017 11:41 am

Hello all,

Im being brave and decided to do this myself but I am stuck

There is fairly bad pixellation and from reading I think it is just the LCD ribbon so I have bough one off ebay.  That said, Ive removed the cluster and its sitting on my kitchen table but I cant seem to take it apart from there.

There are little plastic crosses that you seem to need to twist but when i twist them with the pliers they move but then twist back and as a result I cant get into the cluster to do the fix.  Is there something that I am doing wrong?  Help!!!

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Re: Pixel Cluster - help needed cant get it apart

Post by lezmtaylor » Sat Aug 05, 2017 2:33 pm

You will need to overtwist them, then they relax to the correct position to undo.
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Re: Pixel Cluster - help needed cant get it apart

Post by davrostavros » Sat Aug 05, 2017 8:45 pm

Thanks , I went brace and did the very thing, got it off and then realized I was out of time, another day and then I'll get it sortes

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