[GTALUG] laptop repair in GTA/Markham?

Don Tai dontai.canada at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 15:27:07 EST 2019


OMG This is a new low for non-serviceable tech. I hope I never have to use
a knife and glue gun to repair a keyboard.

On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 14:14, Tim Tisdall via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> I removed the battery again and took a closer look at the keyboard.
> It's definitely melted plastic rivets holding it to a plastic framing
> that everything else screws into.  I really don't want to start
> cutting into plastic.  (here's a video of someone cutting and
> glue-gunning in a replacement:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUnwW1mQ6aI)  It seems like a few
> places sell the casing with the keyboard
> (
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/US-keyboard-for-Asus-ZenBook-UX305CA-UX305FA-Dark-Grey-Palmrest-Topcase/152878737232
> )
> so I'll look around and see who best to order that from.  There's so
> many models and sub-models that I need to be very careful with which
> one I order.
>
> I tried calling ASUS to see how much they'd charge for a repair and
> they want a whopping $540 to just replace the keyboard.
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