Successfull Shell Swap, finished yesterday
Hey There Everyone!
I've decided to Shell Swap one of my steam decks to a gradient yellow-dark transparent shell and golden buttons. It was pretty laborious and took me about 8-9 hours of working, I wanted to share some thoughts and personal advice according to my experience and my SD model for the sake of helping the community.
My SD is the LCD with the black plate inside, I believe that's the reworked LCD version. The eXtremerate video I've followed was the one with the other LCD version, but it was fine except from 3-4 different steps I needed to figure out myself.
I have plenty of experience with hardware, so it wasn't the most difficult experience I've done so far. Here are some points I'd like to share:
- I've used a hairdryer to remove the screen, medium settings overall, it was fine, took me about 15 min or less to finish it. I used 0.5 guitar picks and the plastic ones that come with the kit.
- There's a screw in the bottom right corner of the Right track pad that's very close to the ribbon cable of the MB, you need to take care when removing it, could easily damage it (I think it's the video cable).
- I got a stripped screw when removing the APU dissipator, it was TOO stuck. I had to take it to a service shop to remove it.
Overall the experience was fine, I had to open it about 4 times cause the screen wasn't turning on (it was probably the video ribbon cable that was loosen with the assembling process, and the Right track pad wasn't working, so I disassembled the right daughterboard and cleaned the ribbon cable contacts and the pad itself, it got back working perfectly.
That's it, if there's any questions that you want to ask I'll be happy to help.