Coffee spill

[MiBook84]

Hello,

A friend spilled coffee on his MacBook Air 2019 and the coffee soaked up into the monitor from the bottom right side. It seems to have entered through the black part below the screen and even though it was not much it has been sliding up into the screen to a size of about a football.

It should be possible to take apart the layers and clean the diffusers off but I'm not sure its even possible to take apart without breaking it as its glued shut.

Has anyone here tried and is it worth the risk? The screen works perfect otherwise, its just coffe stained brownish in the corner and as a result the backlight is dimmer above due to it sticking together and catching most light on the coffee itself.

Just curious as I like to do complicated repairs as a free time hobby .

 

[brdeveloper]

Hello,

A friend spilled coffee on his MacBook Air 2019 and the coffee soaked up into the monitor from the bottom right side. It seems to have entered through the black part below the screen and even though it was not much it has been sliding up into the screen to a size of about a football.

It should be possible to take apart the layers and clean the diffusers off but I'm not sure its even possible to take apart without breaking it as its glued shut.

Has anyone here tried and is it worth the risk? The screen works perfect otherwise, its just coffe stained brownish in the corner and as a result the backlight is dimmer above due to it sticking together and catching most light on the coffee itself.

Just curious as I like to do complicated repairs as a free time hobby .

I've seen people who are able to replace the glass part of a broken iPhone screen. This way they avoid third party screens which usually are of lower quality. I imagine there is some geek technician who are able to do this with Macbook screens, that is, it would consist on removing the glass, clean everything and glue it back.

 

[MiBook84]

I did some research and found that it isn't impossible to remove the LCD and as it is fixed to the glass its "just" about getting the glass off without it breaking - which is hard. But If I manage to do so then it should be pretty straight forward to clean the light spreading blades below the screen itself. I just have to decide if it is worth the risk as it works fine now, just a little brownish .

FUN project though!

 

[_Kiki_]

that's not possible, don't try to be "smart", the glass is fused with LCD, if you want replace the screen you need whole assembly which will be expensive, the latest model with replaceable glass was MBP from 2012