Originally Posted by plantsower
Oh man, you made me laugh. I may take a hatchet to it if I can't find the perfect screwdriver to undo it for cheaps.
I'll try to pull all the pieces together...

Aside from facilitating working with connectors, a spudger is non-conducting to prevent shorting anything out as you work. Since your MBP is dead, though, you could use a butter knife with no ill effects.

The screws all look the same, but they differ in length.

As for the SSD, it depends on whether you want to save it for possible future use in an external enclosure or just yank it and trash it. If the former, you'll need the Torx, but if the latter, you can save the money and just pry it out with a screwdriver.

Here are the two cheapest 5Ps I found on eBay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/132149833276?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/295519126941?


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