{"id":2253,"date":"2019-12-24T02:33:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T00:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2019-12-24T02:33:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T00:33:12","slug":"replacing-a-non-replacable-laptop-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/2019\/12\/24\/replacing-a-non-replacable-laptop-keyboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacing A Non-Replacable Laptop Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spilling a drink on a laptop is a terrifying experience. If you&#8217;re lucky you&#8217;ll ruin just a keyboard, and if not, your entire machine could go up in smoke. Assuming you&#8217;ve just suffered the latter, you can still be out of luck, as many laptops come with fancy integrated keyboards that are not designed to be removable. It&#8217;s not always the case however, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidemylaptop.com\/replacing-only-keyboard-without-full-top-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as this ingenious hack from [InsideMyLaptop] bears out.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hack begins with removing the top case assembly from a HP Pavilion laptop. The keyboard is riveted into the top plate assembly, along with the trackpad, which would normally necessitate their replacement as a total unit. However, if properly armed with a soldering iron, these plastic rivets can be melted to allow the backing plate and keyboard to be removed. A replacement part can then be sourced, and the remaining rivet stubs can be remelted to hold the new part in place.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a simple hack, but one that goes to show one shouldn&#8217;t always take &#8220;<em>No User Servicable Parts Inside<\/em>&#8221; as an answer. We&#8217;ve seen other useful work from [InsideMyLaptop] before &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2011\/11\/23\/fixing-that-broken-laptop-power-jack\/\">like this power jack repair way back in 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>source <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2019\/12\/23\/replacing-a-non-replacable-laptop-keyboard\/\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2019\/12\/23\/replacing-a-non-replacable-laptop-keyboard\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spilling a drink on a laptop is a terrifying experience. If you&#8217;re lucky you&#8217;ll ruin just a keyboard, and if not, your entire machine could go up in smoke. Assuming you&#8217;ve just suffered the latter, you can still be out<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/2019\/12\/24\/replacing-a-non-replacable-laptop-keyboard\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Replacing A Non-Replacable Laptop Keyboard<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}