The idea came to me during the first months of being hired at a repair store when a co-worker gave me a screwmat to repair an iPhone 4. I liked the fact that the screw mat showed you where the screws came from in order to make disassembly/reassembly much easier, but it still couldn’t help me when I wanted to do a specific repair since it shows the screws for the entire phone, not just for a specific repair. For an example, the iPhone 4 screen repair is considered the hardest iPhone repair to do since it requires disassembling the entire phone. The iPhone 4 is built in layers. The screw mat only shows where all the screws go, it never shows how to take off each part to get to the screen. So in the case of the iPhone 4, the screw mat was useless. So I analyzed how the iPhone was supposed to be taken apart and made an exploded view of the iPhone. I labeled each part in order and drew lines from where the screws should come from. Suddenly, I realized that this was the best way to display a complex layered repair. Suddenly, the beginnings of a better screw mat were made. I applied this to all iPhones and eventually I will make more for iPads and other devices using the same visual aid. My dream is to have this repair kit made for many more consumer electronics and be used by all repair stores and technical schools across the world.
-Phillip Aiken
CEO of Repair X