Been given a MacBook with a duff keyboard to “fix”. Looks like something’s been spilled on it. Thought I might take the keyboard apart, clean it and re-assemble it. [Check out for disassembly instructions]. Bottom line? There’s no way to get at the back of the keyboard from the all-in-one “Upper Case”. I could slice the head of each plastic rivet and bend metal etc, but my experience tells me that I’ll spend two hours doing it, cut myself twice and still end up buying a replacement keyboard anyway. I decided to cut my losses and save the physical injury buy heading off to eBay, searching for “MacBook Upper Case” and ordering one from the States.
The back of a Macbook keyboard (they call this the “Upper Case”). Not much in the way of “user serviceable parts”, other than a complete replacement!
Here are the moulded/melted plastic rivets that signal there’s no point in taking this apart — you’ll never get it back together.
The front of the Upper Case showing the [escape] key recess. The plus side is that this recess looks like it will keep dust and crumbs away from the circuitry. The minus point is that liquid will get behind it, with no hope of being reached again.
Quick fix: replace keyboard/upper case
Long fix: replace keyboard/upper case