I should take my old computer apart.......

I used to love taking my tower apart and getting all the dust and cat hair out of it. One time I even replaced a fan. Can't do that with these laptops that's for sure.

We've changed the fan , memory & hard drives in a couple of our laptops.. of course only after the warranty expires, but our used/refurbished ones only have 90 day warranty anyway..

Mainly takes very small screwdrivers, I think they do that on purpose, use very tiny screws...and they will strip out easy too...
most of the internal pieces just pop in/out..
each part has it own little cover on most of ours.. so less likey to put something in the wrong place..

and make sure no static or magnetic screwdrivers are around.. although I have used magnetic ones by accident and nothing happened.. but I don't go touching anything important like the motherboard or the soldered connections on it.

uh oh.
That's probably what happened to my last one, the compaq.
I used a magnetic screw driver with much delight. It was on its last legs though. I can't believe I did that.

I remember years ago having to degauss a monitor after having vacuumed too close to it. Ah the things we do.

Sorry for going so off topic judi!

One of my favourite past times

Go for it!