iPad Repair Adhesive

[NETWizz]

I need to know what a good iPad adhesive is for keeping a new digitizer down.

Basically, mine cracked a while back, so I replaced it. In doing the repair, I destroyed the WiFi antenna. Today I got around to replacing the WiFi antenna, which wouldn't come out even with heat, Doh!

The old one metled to the speaker and sunk in a bit, so I just slapped the new one on top, lol.

Long story short, the entire iPad now works, but it has been hell. Everything from a bent chassis that needed the corners ground with a Dremel, to getting a digitizer with bad home button, to this. It's been opened no fewer than three times.

Now, it's perfect, so I want to glue it shut any ideas?

 

[Krynn72]

I need to know what a good iPad adhesive is for keeping a new digitizer down.

Basically, mine cracked a while back, so I replaced it. In doing the repair, I destroyed the WiFi antenna. Today I got around to replacing the WiFi antenna, which wouldn't come out even with heat, Doh!

The old one metled to the speaker and sunk in a bit, so I just slapped the new one on top, lol.

Long story short, the entire iPad now works, but it has been hell. Everything from a bent chassis that needed the corners ground with a Dremel, to getting a digitizer with bad home button, to this. It's been opened no fewer than three times.

Now, it's perfect, so I want to glue it shut any ideas?

We learned this year that Apple uses tesa 61395 Tape during manufacture. This is the strongest adhesive I've found myself too. Ifixit just started selling it as a result. Good price too.
https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Parts/Tesa-61395-Tape/IF317-072-3

 

[gadgetfixup]

We use nothing but 3M 5907 Black tape. You can purchase it on eBay and couple other sources. It's the correct thickness and if you clean the surfaces, this stuff never lifts. I sorted this out about a year ago when so many people advertised good adhesives. You'll find the problem with many of them is they're the wrong thickness. If my memory serves me correctly you need 0.18mm. The stuff that is stuck on most replacement digitizers is half that thickness so they only adhere to bits and pieces of the frame and lift. The pain is you have to cut the 5907 sheets but I use a razor paper cutter and it works well to slice it up into strips.

I'll have to buy a roll of this Tesa tape to see how it compares. After re-doing so many lift jobs, I'm really stuck on the 5907 as we've never had one lift since we started using it.

 

[NviGate Systems]

I use Silicone, works wonders. I've used Permatex Blue Sensor Safe (Won't corrode) and I've also used Loctite Corrosion Free that I got from ALLSPEC.

You have to be sure that everything is perfect. You can rework, it just will be harder. One nice thing about silicone is it does add a small area of water resistance to the device. Not much, but enough that if an iPad was dropped in a bucket the only area it would seep in would be the home button. Mind you I've never tested that.

The only trick is to make sure you clean up excess and use clamps to keep the assembly down flush with the bezel.

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

We've used Bowler Tech without issue.

 

[NETWizz]

I got it... Just needed heat. I cleaned the inside really good then really set the adhesive with heat. Now the iPad is doing great. That said, I will never again fix an iPad. Everything about it stunk from scraping fragments of glass off stuck with adhesive to an aluminum chassis to dealing with the tiny connectors etc.

If they would have made a rubber O-ring and screws to keep it together it would have been much more serviceable.

 

[mikeroq]

If they would have made a rubber O-ring and screws to keep it together it would have been much more serviceable.

Now now, can't be making these products easy to repair now can we?