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Isnât battery adhesive the worst thing ever?
I remember fixing a few macbooks that had batteries like this. The batteries were gigantic and the adhesive was crazy strong. Dumping acetone behind them with a syringe, heat, and gently prying eventually got them out but it was quite nerve wracking. I guess you canât dump solvents in a steam deck though
Itâs so dumb. Adhesives make assembly easier but fuck over repairability. The only advantages are even distribution of pressure and vibration dampening, which are notable, but are not worth making the main wear item completely inaccessible and a nightmare to replace for the majority of people who donât have experience with heat guns and sliding cards/thin metal to cut the stupid fucking adhesive that couldâve been replaced by a screw making the product 0.5mm thicker and 0.1g heavier (if that)
Ehhh Iâve had some nightmare experiences with Samsung, LG (back when they made phones), ~~Xiaomi~~ (edit not Xiaomi, huawei), etc. a lot use pull tabs and when they work theyâre perfect but when theyâre old or you go just a bit too fast and they break youâre fucked and have to either heat it a ton, drown it in solvent, or slide a thin wire to cut it, all options suck
Funny enough the new apple phones actually have this weird electro conductive adhesive thatâs crazy simple to remove. The pull tabs are now terminals, you connect those to a standard 9v battery with alligator clips or whatever, and after a short bit of time (30 seconds iirc) the adhesive just releases and you can lift the battery out
There are videos of it on youtube, itâs pretty cool and the one adhesive I can potentially get behind. though I would want to see what people say about it after a few years of actual use. The initial teardown videos when the 16 came out made it look impressive but who knows if it holds up after 5-7 years
They also donât use it for laptops so far. They didnât even use it for all versions of the iphone 16 so itâs not exactly applaud apple time but if they roll that out to replace the nasty adhesives they were using for batteries across their product line it would be a great step in the right direction