Tools Introducing the Micro Tech Toolkit: Less Really Is More From iPods to Fitbits, gizmos keep getting smaller. So, we’re introducing a new toolkit to better handle modern devices. Armed with data from thousands of teardowns and repair guides, our… March 31, 2017 by Julia Bluff
Tools This 1945 Naval Tool Manual is Wonderful “Tools are your good friends. Why? Because they make it possible for you to do hundreds of jobs that you couldn’t with your own hands. They are extra hands—and eyes—which… November 30, 2016 by Taylor Whitney
Tools Master the Multimeter Basics If you want to start mastering the basics, look no further than our ongoing YouTube series on repair skills. In our most recent installment, iFixit’s resident tinkerer—Gwendolyn Gay—teaches you how… April 25, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Tools Introducing the Smother Bag: Never Hover Without It If you're one of the millions of people who use a hoverboard daily, you know a thing or two about looking hot. Literally hot. Like, spontaneously bursting into flame—again. We… April 1, 2016 by Kay Kay Clapp
Tools Gifts for Every Fixer on Your List The air is crisp, the evergreen bedecked, and we’re all blissfully shoveling sweets into our mouths unchecked. It’s Christmas time! But we know the holiday season can also be the… December 8, 2014 by Julia Bluff
Tools What’s in Your Tool Kit? When we visited the Oakland technology project space Tech Liminal after MacWorld | iWorld in January, some Fixit Clinic folks there let us dig around in their tool kits. Steve… April 15, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Tools The Hand Tool Shortage That Stalled WWII I wouldn't have thought that the powerful Allied forces could have been stalled by a lack of wrenches and hammers—just as I wouldn't have expected that American soldiers in Iraq… April 9, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Tools New iPad Opening Tool We’ve been searching high and low for a better way to get inside the iPad. Our current method requires industrial strength suction cups, a heavy-duty 1500 watt heat gun, a… April 1, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Tools iMac 21.5″ and 27″ Dual Hard Drive Kits! Our most-recent iMac 21.5" teardown revealed an interesting tidbit: unused mounting points that were curiously in the shape of a 2.5" hard drive. After a bit of investigating, we found… March 6, 2012 by Miro Djuric
Tools Secondhand Tools: Dozens of Drills At the Lajpat Rai electronics market in Delhi, secondhand tools wait for customers. The drills are so artfully displayed—I wonder how much packaging material it would save if Home Depot… March 4, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit