Quote Originally Posted by Kejross View Post
okay so i saw this mod in another post and after asking around and not getting much if any response i decided to just tear into it and see what happened. and why not? i got nothing but time = outta work for 4-6 months from a bike wreck and massive shoulder surgery

so first off take out and completely apart til it looks like this:
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then cut all these pins like this to flip the lcd open:
(i didnt wanna desolder all those but its an option)
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then remove the backing of the lcd with a razor like this:
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then i used carb cleaner but paint thinner would be better to remove the red coloring from the piece


next step i took a generic dvd case that was blue and cut a piece to put behind it like this:
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then just stuck them behind the lcd and resoldered the pins on the side really sloppily like this:
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then i went and bought my leds from two different radio shacks cause they didnt have enough at one store. i got 10mm blue leds for behind lcd and red leds for behind the buttons and some 560ohm 1/2 watt resistors like these:
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then drilled out the openings a bit with a 3/8"s bit and tucked them in like this:
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now when putting them in the polarity matters so i had to go plug it in and check and this is what i found out:

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keep in mind the longer of the two leads is the positive side...

continued:
When he says he used carb cleaner to clean the piece. What piece does he mean? The actual screen? And do you need to be careful at all while doing that?