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top tip: use an ice cube tray to hold all the screws you remove. I remove the first set, put them together in the first cube hole and continue. then just revers
by ljf 15y ago
top tip: use an ice cube tray to hold all the screws you remove. I remove the first set, put them together in the first cube hole and continue. then just reverse the order of cubes when you are putting it back together.
- billswift 15y agoTrays for mixing artists' paints have wells that are a lot shallower than ice cube trays and easier to get screws and other little parts out of.
- aquark 15y agoAnd use wide masking tape over each cube as you are done so that when you (or the cat or the kids) knock it the screws don't disappear into invisible cracks in the floor.
- lallysingh 15y agoActually I tend to have strips of tape attached to my desk, with the sticky-parts up. The ends are turned over and stuck to the desk. I stick the screw heads to the tape. They stay pretty well, are easy to get-to, and it's easy to arrange them as you want. I usually put them in a compacted form of the layout they were on the board.
- derekp7 15y agoI just put the screws back into the screw holes that they came out of, after removing the component that it was holding in place. And take lots of pictures along the way.
- pacemkr 15y agoI just use my collection of slightly larger screws to put it back together.
- ezy 15y agoI actually draw a small outline on a piece of paper of the components I'm unscrewing and tape the screws to the correct spots. :-)
- shabble 15y agoI've been bitten by that scheme after I'd carefully disassembled my laptop, putting all the screws on a neatly labelled sheet of paper, only to later attempt to blow out some dust, and have them scatter across the desk and floor. Double-sided tape, or actual compartments, sound like a much better idea.
- marshray 15y agoYep, keep 'em spatially oriented. Another strategy is to screw them back in, lightly, into the same holes they came out of (after removing the thing they were holding down of course). Not practical with a lot of gear though.