chdorr

As usual, ifixit nails it. I just got done replacing the thermal paste on my MBP A1211. This beast had been unable to deal with any video for more than two minutes without sputtering and failing, the fans were screaming and it was so %#*@ hot. One benefit of doing the teardown was cleaning out the mass amount of crud in the fans which obviously was a big problem. Anyhow, the most difficult part of this process was getting the tape off of the left fan, other than that, piece of cake and it fired right up, can't even hear the fans and I'm ten minutes into a full screen movie and no issues. Whoo hooo!!!!

Oh yes, the egg carton for the screws was perfect. I labeled 8 bins for the steps with screw removal as follows (multiple step numbers means they were combined in one egg bin; for step 20 I made three bins separated by color):

2,4

5

6,7,8

12

17,18

20 - orange

20 - green

20 - red, yellow