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Amnesiac · 01-30-2011, 04:40 PM

... can't recall... but it wasn't a great success.

I took the nook apart and man you have to really take everything off and get back to bare pcb! Its held together mostly with double sided tape and getting the glued on aluminium back plate from the old screen was a nightmare.

I put the new one it, but, without fiddling with the pot' (as noted above) its unreadable, which means you need to take off (by heating gently with hot air) a metal cover (I'm assuming a Faraday cage) around the components with the adjuster pot'.

By that time the replacement Nook had arrived and I haven't had the time, with silly hrs at work kicking off during it all, that I've not gone back to it and finished it off (since I had a working Nook to read with).

It's on my list of unfinished jobs, but re-working my GPS for my SLR and some others are higher on the TTD list right now.

If you are desperate for it then PM me and I'll dig out the reference (which will have come from searching alibaba.com and contacting one of the factory reps) otherwise I'd say the uncertainty of getting a working screen out the back-end of it all makes it a hobby not a repair activity.

A.

01-30-2011, 04:40 PM	#9
Amnesiac Member Posts: 15 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: London, UK Device: Nook glowlight, Boyue T62+D, Kobo aura 1, Yota2, HiSense A6	I'll dig it out.... ... can't recall... but it wasn't a great success. I took the nook apart and man you have to really take everything off and get back to bare pcb! Its held together mostly with double sided tape and getting the glued on aluminium back plate from the old screen was a nightmare. I put the new one it, but, without fiddling with the pot' (as noted above) its unreadable, which means you need to take off (by heating gently with hot air) a metal cover (I'm assuming a Faraday cage) around the components with the adjuster pot'. By that time the replacement Nook had arrived and I haven't had the time, with silly hrs at work kicking off during it all, that I've not gone back to it and finished it off (since I had a working Nook to read with). It's on my list of unfinished jobs, but re-working my GPS for my SLR and some others are higher on the TTD list right now. If you are desperate for it then PM me and I'll dig out the reference (which will have come from searching alibaba.com and contacting one of the factory reps) otherwise I'd say the uncertainty of getting a working screen out the back-end of it all makes it a hobby not a repair activity. A.