Screwed!

[tamaranth]

reddragdiva, when you screwed the base onto this laptop, you may not have considered that Mere Mortals might wish to take it apart and look at the shiny insides replace the keyboard ...

Nearly all of the Development Department have had a go. (Though not the chap who wanted to melt the casing away.) And we cannot shift the final two [EDIT: five] screws.

Given previous laptop mishaps, what I really need to apply is probably an affectionate cat.

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[reddragdiva]

aieee!

Actually, I don't think I ever opened yours ... mind you, if I get you a second one it will be one I have in fact opened.

I must find a key, I know. Buh. LIFE OUT TO GET ME.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

I have a new shiny laptop with all the keys!

Just no way to unite it with dear, battered but hardworking, cat-mangled laptop ...

[reddragdiva]

Are you trying to replace the keyboard or just extract the hard disk or what?

Getting the back off a 560X is in fact a bugger. There are fourteen screws to extract, and three of those are hidden - you'll see little circles of plastic where the service manual says they should be.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

you mean these little circles of plastic?

*points*

*telepathises*

We are only trying to replace the keyboard ...

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

(Though not the chap who wanted to melt the casing away.)

I didn't realise you worked with latexiron.

From the School of Appropriate Simile

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

I feel sure they would get on like a house on fire.

Colleague has just described how he 'accidentally' set fire to himself with petrol.

Re: From the School of Appropriate Simile

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Are you certain it's not latexiron?

[reddragdiva]

There are fourteen screws to remove. If you think there are nine or eleven, find the others.

Two of them (on the corners, I think) are bloody difficult.

Re: From the School of Appropriate Simile

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

It is an astonishingly good disguise if so. +hair, +accent, -nosering, -daft car ....

Re: From the School of Appropriate Simile

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

But ... that's exactly what he'd want you to think ... [grin]
Maybe it's one of those Mission Implausible style latex masks - pull his nose to find out ...

Re: From the School of Appropriate Simile

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Ah, but which bit of himself did he set light to? Let's SO not go there.

Which reminds me - last night I learned more about "that" area of Mathias than, I realise in retrospect, I ever wanted to know.

Re: From the School of Appropriate Simile

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

I am not asking.

See me not asking.

Re: From the School of Appropriate Simile

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Worry not - see me not saying.

Re: From the School of Appropriate Simile

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

It's excellent to find out that we have a spare, should we ever need one.

Re: From the School of Appropriate Simile

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

Look, she wants to continue working there, latexiron or no latexiron...

[kjersti.livejournal.com]

yiu need a plasma cutter5 obvioisly

[kjersti.livejournal.com]

this was obviously not me (just look at the spelling!) - guess who?

Re: From the School of Appropriate Simile

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for planting the notion that we might, someday, need a latexiron for something.

This one is much prettier.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

oooh, no, I couldn't possibly guess ...

Do you think it might be safer to duct-tape his fingers together?

[kjersti.livejournal.com]

I'm sure he'd find something Bad and Wrong to do anyway.

Re: From the School of Appropriate Simile

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

there was really no other simile to choose, was there ;-)