"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
07/15/2018 at 01:28 • Filed to: None
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"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
07/15/2018 at 01:28 • Filed to: None | 0
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Today I decided to rebuild my trusty old iPod nano 6G. The battery was shot and the display was broken in the corner from smacking into things, something that happens to every watch I own without fail.
Disassembly went fine, but it took a bit of work to do the battery. Rather than desolder and resolder on the circuit board I cut the wires and spliced them, and insulated with some heat shrink. It was a little tough thanks to those i tty bitty wires, but that got done.
I reassembled everything with the new screen, although I didn’t stick the screen back in place. It’s always going to be in that watch band, so I’ll just let the band maintain pressure on the screen, and this will make it a little easier to take apart when I eventually need to replace the battery again. This little shortcut is what will come back to bite me. The band, as you see from that image, will also do a good job of keeping me from cracking the new display.
I plugged it in and it started to take a charge. The screen responded fine, but there was a pressure spot in one corner. I thought that I was going to have to replace the screen, thinking I had damaged it during installation, but as it turns out the pressure was caused by the internal shield; I didn’t get it installed quite right and it was hung up on a lip. The screen looked great when the pressure was removed, so once the shield was back in the correct place I went to slide the iPod back into the band. That’s when it happened...
Being as old as I am I’ve finally realized it’s time for reading glasses, or more likely, bifocals. I had my glasses off and was just a few inches away as I slid the iPod back into the band. In my haste to reassemble I guess I didn’t apply enough pressure to get the LCD fully under the lip of the band, and as a result the screen exploded. Right in my face. Little glass shards into my mouth and eyes. Ouch. And n ot tasty.
Well, more like little particles to be honest , like very fine sand. I think I’m OK, and I don’t know if the minor pain in my eyes is just from being tired or from the glass. I guess I’ll know in the morning. Before I sleep, however, it’s time to hit FleaBay and order another screen...
Svend
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/15/2018 at 02:10 |
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If there’s any chance of glass in your eye, get it checked quick.
I was a little kid playing around on a wall, hammering my toys when some of the concrete chipped off into my right eye, it worked it’s way round the back and started cutting the back of my eye open, several hours in A&E (your E.R.) and a patch I had to wear for a week later I was fine (going to school with a patch over my eye was awful, but thankfully I was bullied a lot so don’t remember the names they used at that period, lol).
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> Svend
07/15/2018 at 02:13 |
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I did go to the kitchen and used the dish sprayer to rinse out my eyes. The overspray made a bit of a mess, but that can be cleaned up. Later. I think I’m OK, but I’ll check again in the morning.
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Svend
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/15/2018 at 03:25 |
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Are you alone? If not, put your head over a sink with the eye in question at the lowest point and tilt your head slightly up (say 15%) and get someone to run lots of water over it for about half a minute, trying not to blink too often.
If you wake with a tenderness or soreness in that eye, get yourself down to E.R.