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Extend your laptop's life! Clean the dust out of its heat sink.

Step 2Remove inner cover

Remove inner cover
When the first cover comes off, here's what you see. Up top is the copper heat sink that sends off heat through many vanes as air passes through it.

I don't know why these two fans are different. Maybe someone can leave a note and educate us?

The five circled screws are small phillips head. I made extra sure not to drop these while removing them.
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Feb 19, 2011. 12:38 PMkaterbater19 says:
I don't think that they are different I believe one blows air in and the other blows air out so one is upside down and the other isn't. Thanks for making this btw!!!

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