Does anyone have any idea how to open a Zebra H501? Searching here and the expensive forum have not yielded any fruit as of yet. I have an old Zebra H501w that crapped out some time ago and I’m of a mind to mod it/ fix it. As the frustration grows I am becoming more fond of the idea of passing a dowel up the battery tube and whacking with extreme prejudice and see if that pops the driver out. Before I go crazy and really trash it, I was wondering if someone might have a more intelligent approach. Any suggestions?
edit: Made the title a question, I didn’t want to accidentally give someone the idea that I had a clue if they were wondering the same.
So I got it apart. Scary easy until the gray epoxy thermal compound.
Here is how I started.
Turns out I just needed to lift right here under the stainless ring.
There is the little button.
Leveraging up under the board and then applying solder gun I was able to slide the board off of the wires.
So then I tool this screw out and started chewing away at the grey epoxy.
Then I got the heat sink /button stop thing out and exposed more epoxy.
Lots of tedious scraping with dental pick
So after scraping the bulk of the gray crap out I pushed the emitter into the head and this drove the driver and emitter down toward the bottom and I just coaxed it along.
This is the emitter before cleaning some more.
And the driver and emitter without gray crap.
That’s all I’ve got for now…