Print on clear transparency and lay it on magnetic sheet (steal from frig!)
This idea is just a special case of using jigs for keeping screws and parts organized when disassembling any complicated device (not just laptops). I always used a variation of pill-box method. Buy yourself a box of chocolates, eat them, then keep them box which is now empty except for the flimsy plastic sheet with the little cups (like a cupcake tin-pan). I put the screws in the cups in order I remove them if I have a step-by-step procedure. And see below for ideas about slipping a magnetic-sheet in the candy-box.
Nobody mention magnets (I think... I didn't read every post). Anyways, When working on the car engine, appliances, instruments or any other bigger device, I just use a steal cupcake tin with a magnet in each cell. Those screws stay where I put them with those strong magnets!
Haven't tried it, but a similar method might work for those tiny laptop screws...
I have lots of magnetic business-cards, calendars, etc on my refrigerator.
Put these magnetic sheets under the plastic-cup-sheet, so screws stay in the cups and get magnetized.
If you wanted to get fancy, could print out the screw-chart on transparency film (like for overhead projector). Put it on top of the white magnetic sheet(s).
You can get photo-sized (and hopefully also 8.5-inch-by-11-inch) bulk magnetic film with white surface useable with wet/dry erase markers. (Google model#
Or if you need it bulk, try something like: MODEL#[PER-10-2-3-PVC]
One Roll of Perforated Flexible Magnetic Strip with PVC surface
Pre-scored to 6" long labels.
Great for labeling on steel shelves, file cabinets, drawers, machines, trays, doors, racks and vehicles! Length: 10 Feet
Width: 2" inch
Thickness: 0.03 inch
Not sure if the inkjet magnetic would hold strong enough, and printing would be permanent, so not useful unless you do the same model all the time.
Ideal would be a transparent pill-box with a 8.5x11 foot print and maybe each cell 1-inch-by-1-inch. (88 cells or so). Maybe even each cell with it's own locking cover. Probably overkill, but that way you could pick it up and move it elsewhere if you had to without worrying about losing screws.
I really like the idea of being able to use a fine-point eraseable marker to make notes right next to a particular screw or location on the jig. Be it the transparency, or the white magnetic sheet, whatever. For example, "Was very tight", "Strips easily!" or "needs loctite", etc. Always a good idea to take notes or record things as you go, and don't leave any details out... sometimes an observation that seems inconsequential or very minor turns out to be a major life-saver when re-assembly time comes. Especially if you cannot re-assemble the same day or so, and the short-term memories are gone. And maybe your long-term memory is not so good anymore either, like mine! Enough said.
This idea is just a special case of using jigs for keeping screws and parts organized when disassembling any complicated device (not just laptops). I always used a variation of pill-box method. Buy yourself a box of chocolates, eat them, then keep them box which is now empty except for the flimsy plastic sheet with the little cups (like a cupcake tin-pan). I put the screws in the cups in order I remove them if I have a step-by-step procedure. And see below for ideas about slipping a magnetic-sheet in the candy-box.
Nobody mention magnets (I think... I didn't read every post). Anyways, When working on the car engine, appliances, instruments or any other bigger device, I just use a steal cupcake tin with a magnet in each cell. Those screws stay where I put them with those strong magnets!
Haven't tried it, but a similar method might work for those tiny laptop screws...
I have lots of magnetic business-cards, calendars, etc on my refrigerator.
Put these magnetic sheets under the plastic-cup-sheet, so screws stay in the cups and get magnetized.
If you wanted to get fancy, could print out the screw-chart on transparency film (like for overhead projector). Put it on top of the white magnetic sheet(s).
You can get photo-sized (and hopefully also 8.5-inch-by-11-inch) bulk magnetic film with white surface useable with wet/dry erase markers. (Google model#
Or if you need it bulk, try something like: MODEL#[PER-10-2-3-PVC]
One Roll of Perforated Flexible Magnetic Strip with PVC surface
Pre-scored to 6" long labels.
Great for labeling on steel shelves, file cabinets, drawers, machines, trays, doors, racks and vehicles! Length: 10 Feet
Width: 2" inch
Thickness: 0.03 inch
Not sure if the inkjet magnetic would hold strong enough, and printing would be permanent, so not useful unless you do the same model all the time.
Ideal would be a transparent pill-box with a 8.5x11 foot print and maybe each cell 1-inch-by-1-inch. (88 cells or so). Maybe even each cell with it's own locking cover. Probably overkill, but that way you could pick it up and move it elsewhere if you had to without worrying about losing screws.
I really like the idea of being able to use a fine-point eraseable marker to make notes right next to a particular screw or location on the jig. Be it the transparency, or the white magnetic sheet, whatever. For example, "Was very tight", "Strips easily!" or "needs loctite", etc. Always a good idea to take notes or record things as you go, and don't leave any details out... sometimes an observation that seems inconsequential or very minor turns out to be a major life-saver when re-assembly time comes. Especially if you cannot re-assemble the same day or so, and the short-term memories are gone. And maybe your long-term memory is not so good anymore either, like mine!
Enough said.
You can pick the sheet up and move it with no problems, the screws stay put 
