Hot to disassemble Dell Inspiron 1525 pp29l and clean cooling system

My mother asked me clean her laptop. Well — no problem :)

How to disassemble Dell Inspiron 1525 pp29l and clean cooling system

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How to disassemble Packard Bell LJ 75 laptop and clean cooling system

In one frozen day of february 2010 I bought brand new laptop. It was Packard Bell LJ75 modification LJ75-JN-101RU based on, new for that time, Intel Core i3 processor and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 GPU. The first think that struck me in new laptop — it’s almost not heated, in comparison with my old Samsung R40. Packard Bell stay cold even on two hour of HD filming on sofa. It was really cool! But as time passed, I began to notice that temperature of my laptop is growing. It’s time to disassembly and clean my laptop.

How to disassembly Packard Bell LJ 75 and clean cooling system

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Canon 99 error or how to disassemble Canon 17-85 IS USM and replace diaphragm unit

Few month ago my Canon 17-85 lens started giving «Error 99» with my Canon 400D DSLR camera. Little googling, and I found the cause of this. Problem was in the diaphragm unit in the lens. Diaphragm unit connected to the lens motherboard with flatcable, which is damaged with time, when you use zoom ring. The only way out is to replace flatcable or diaphragm unit with flatcable assembly. Because now I live in Thailand, and I don’t have a copper, I ordered diaphragm unit assembly on EBay.

This is my lens. Beauty :)

Canon 99 error, disassembly canon 17-85 IS USM, change diaphragm unit

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