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Teardown notebook · for your own repair

Take it apart once.
Put it back right.

Opening a laptop, tower or console to swap a drive, a fan or a battery? Log each step as it comes apart: the part, how many screws, which driver, what to watch for. Benchtrail turns that into a reverse-order checklist for putting it back, a screw tally, and a tray sheet to print and lay on the bench.

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  • No account: a private link
  • Text only, nothing to install
  • Free for jobs of up to 12 steps (every feature free during preview)

Tray sheetExample: 14-inch laptop, SSD swap

  1. 1 Bottom cover Phillips #0 · 2 long at the hinge end
  2. 2 Battery connector no screws  
  3. 3 SSD bracket Phillips #0 · short, black
  4. 4 Fan Phillips #00

Drop each step’s screws on its own cell. Reassemble from the highest number down.

Benchtrail Pass $1.95/month · $19.50/year · $1.00 for 7 days Free during preview

What the Pass adds

One job, three views

Log it on the way in. Follow it on the way out.

The example below is the same four steps shown three ways, drawn by the same code a real job uses.

01

Teardown log

Each step gets a number. The number is also its tray, so screws never mix.

  1. 1

    Bottom cover

    10 × Phillips #0 · 2 long at the hinge end Tray 1

    • Plastic clips
    • Hidden screw (under a foot, sticker or pad)

    Two screws under the rear rubber foot.

  2. 2

    Battery connector

    No screws Tray 2

    • Battery connector: unplug first

    Unplugged before anything else inside.

  3. 3

    SSD bracket

    1 × Phillips #0 · short, black Tray 3

  4. 4

    Fan

    3 × Phillips #00 Tray 4

    • Ribbon / flex cable

    Fan cable lifts straight up.

02

Screw tally

Totals by driver, so the right bits are on the bench before the last screw comes out.

Screw tally

DriverScrews
Phillips #011
Phillips #003
All screws14

03

Put it back

The same steps in reverse. Tick each one; the count of screws still out goes down to zero.

  1. 4Fan 3 screws
  2. 3SSD bracket 1 screw
  3. 2Battery connector
  4. 1Bottom cover 10 screws

10 screws still out

What Benchtrail is, and what it is not

It is
Your own notes, kept in order, for one repair you are doing yourself.
It is not a repair shop
No technicians, no pickup, no quotes, no reviews, no addresses.
It is not a repair guide
It never says how your model comes apart. The maker’s service manual does; Benchtrail keeps your place in it.
It keeps
Text only. No photos or files are uploaded. Jobs not opened for 400 days are deleted.

Pricing

Free for a small job. A Pass for a big one.

Free

$0

  • Up to 12 steps per job
  • Teardown log, screw tally
  • Reverse-order checklist

Benchtrail Pass

$1.95/month or $19.50/year

or $1.00 for one 7-day job

  • Up to 80 steps per job
  • Printable tray sheet
  • Read-only share link for a helper

Free during preview: every Pass feature is on for everyone and nothing is charged.

Before the first screw

Bench habits worth keeping

Power off and unplug; disconnect the battery inside before touching anything else; ground yourself; photograph cables before you lift them. Plain, general habits, written down in one place.

Read the bench habits