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Feedback request: OEM MacBook feet removal

This guide replaces the original I made when I was 14 (Yes, it’s bad): https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/(Archived)+...

I tried to revive this, but I couldn’t see a reason to do it once I thought about it for a while. I made the decision to kill it as a fix on 6/15/19. As the 3rd party replacements are mostly anti-slip, there was no reason to finish fixing it.

The replacement guide can be found here: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/(Inner+plug...

I will keep the old guide up until the end of the month and then retire it permanently by making it private, unless it still makes sense to preserve it in public form and I don’t see it.

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Hey there @nick even though the guide you created back in 2010 might not be up to your standards, I think you should archive it instead of permanently marking it private. Some users in the future may find it helpful to use your older guide, and any helpful information should be made available to the public. In addition, your older guide has over 23K+ views and is viewed 200 times monthly, so I think it's best to just archive the guide and leave it public since it's already helped so many people. Thanks for all your hard work and I appreciate what you do for this community!

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@jogihara the reason I looked into pulling it is the furniture feet leave glue on the bottom case and in order to try again WITHOUT making a further mess, you need to use Goo Gone to get rid of a mess that really shouldn't have been a problem to begin with, but is a problem because it's cheap and nasty tape. I may leave it up as I finalized it because I made it clear that guide will never be fully revised and where to find the current version. That old guide was made when replacement feet could only really be bought from Apple and you needed to buy the same crappy feet that will always fail.

That old guide's procedure didn't age well over time since good 3rd party OEM style feet are readily available - I'm not opposed to leaving it up as it does help cool the dGPU MBP's down, but the endurance of the feet isn't as good as I'd like - nor does the heat these absorb help the matter.

I've looked into an update, but now that I can get rubberized 3rd party feet easily (and if the set is failing, break the surviving feet off and do it as a set) I didn't want to move forward so in this case the old guide benefitted by being partially updated. Archived to me just means I'm no longer updating it (but provide a final update)*, but it doesn't stop someone with a Mac they're okay with getting dirty to replace my photos from cleaning it up.

*If the error is potentially serious I'll fix it on a case by case basis and not update the rest of the guide

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@jogihara I'll leave it up with the caveat errors found after 6/15 (archive date) are here to stay unless it causes expensive issues like chassis damage and is common (not by Apple standards, thankfully :P). Seems like a fair compromise.

That said if I find a serious error that needs a rewrite, I'm pulling it (I used a 17" machine; I use a 13" now since the 17" '11 is unreliable and the '12 15" Hi-Res is hard to find). It has also been fixed by 6 different people in the past on Step 2 (8 for 1), so it will need to be treated as a written from scratch cleanup because of how many attempts have been made. I can generally do a discrete device change with nobody noticing (outside of the edit history), but it isn't as easy as it seems to mask it that way. That device change mask was a total printer change (C309g->B210a). Needed new photos (nothing can carry) and a new print test unless I wanted it to be obvious since I went from a 5 color PK printer to a CMYK 4 color.

I don't see any immediate errors, so it's fine for now to keep it up.

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