“You need to buy this special heater pad to break the screen adhesive!”

No, I think you will find that in fact I don’t.

  • recklessengagement@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Holy shit. I do a fair bit of small electronics repair on the side, the cost of a decent heat pad is about half that of a 3d printer… This may be what finally inspires me to get a 3d printer.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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        27 days ago

        I realize this is a joke…

        But don’t do this. Really. The fdm layers are unhygienic, and there’s a not-insignificant risk of things snapping off and leading to awkward emergency room visits.

        A better solution is printing a 2 part mold and casting silicone.

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      27 days ago

      Sadly not.

      I was told. Without asking. By a long lost friend of a cousin you wouldn’t know.

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      27 days ago

      Seeing as you can do the exact same thing with a hairdryer, it’s inventing a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.

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        27 days ago

        The heated bed is coupled to a thermistor. I’d argue controlling the temperature in order to not accidentally overheat parts of the phone is a step above a hair dryer.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    Doesn’t that require a much higher temperature than most beds would be able to safely achieve.

    I had to take the screen off of a Pixel not terribly long ago to replace the battery. I used a heat gun and I remember it requiring a temperature of like… 240C° or some such? And when I’m printing PLA, my printer bed only gets to 60C°. (Not saying it couldn’t go higher, but 240C° seems way higher than 60C°.)