Syringe with acetone, have 2-3 ready especially if you have small syringes
Open the macbook, take the bottom off, and place it upside down so it’s it’s in a upside down V shape
Dump a bunch of acetone behind the battery with the syringe so that it pours down toward the bottom, away from keyboard. Let it sit for a minute. Apply gentle heat. Apply more acetone, let it sit.
Start to try to pry it with a spudger (gently) while squirting in acetone around where you pry. If it doesn’t budge repeat the above again. Pry and squirt, pry and squirt. Slow and steady. Keep in mind each cell pack can kind of flex around so when you get past one you kind of start over.
I used both the plastic spudgers and the thin metal kind and always preferred the latter. Plastic works and is safer but the metal kind just work better
Having a contingency plan for if it fails but I never did tbf
Edit: alternatively I remember reading about pulling a thin sharp metal string behind the battery to cut the adhesive. Like a high note piano wire. Never tried it but heard it works. You tuck it behind the battery and slowly drag it down, pulling it left to right so it cuts the adhesive. Seemed sketch to me so I never tried, like it would potentially cut into the battery?
I tried the wire method on one before and it worked well, but took FOREVER to get through. It felt riskier than the spudger method to me, so I never did it again.
I was just always afraid that because of the inherent angle of me pulling the wire towards the battery that I would end up pulling the wire into the battery and slicing into it. I don’t know how easy it is for a wire to slice into a battery casing, I assume it’s somewhat hard, but I wasn’t trying to find out
I ended up getting somewhat decent at these battery swaps though. There was a time where I could do it in like 20 minutes or so.
The worst part was when someone needed a trackpad replacement haha. It wasn’t common but when it happened it was like so do you want a new battery? because I’m gonna have to do all this pain in the ass shit anyway
I’ve done a number of these
Discharge the battery as much as possible
Syringe with acetone, have 2-3 ready especially if you have small syringes
Open the macbook, take the bottom off, and place it upside down so it’s it’s in a upside down V shape
Dump a bunch of acetone behind the battery with the syringe so that it pours down toward the bottom, away from keyboard. Let it sit for a minute. Apply gentle heat. Apply more acetone, let it sit.
Start to try to pry it with a spudger (gently) while squirting in acetone around where you pry. If it doesn’t budge repeat the above again. Pry and squirt, pry and squirt. Slow and steady. Keep in mind each cell pack can kind of flex around so when you get past one you kind of start over.
I used both the plastic spudgers and the thin metal kind and always preferred the latter. Plastic works and is safer but the metal kind just work better
Having a contingency plan for if it fails but I never did tbf
Edit: alternatively I remember reading about pulling a thin sharp metal string behind the battery to cut the adhesive. Like a high note piano wire. Never tried it but heard it works. You tuck it behind the battery and slowly drag it down, pulling it left to right so it cuts the adhesive. Seemed sketch to me so I never tried, like it would potentially cut into the battery?
I tried the wire method on one before and it worked well, but took FOREVER to get through. It felt riskier than the spudger method to me, so I never did it again.
I was just always afraid that because of the inherent angle of me pulling the wire towards the battery that I would end up pulling the wire into the battery and slicing into it. I don’t know how easy it is for a wire to slice into a battery casing, I assume it’s somewhat hard, but I wasn’t trying to find out
I ended up getting somewhat decent at these battery swaps though. There was a time where I could do it in like 20 minutes or so.
The worst part was when someone needed a trackpad replacement haha. It wasn’t common but when it happened it was like so do you want a new battery? because I’m gonna have to do all this pain in the ass shit anyway