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HP Spectre X360 30th September 2015
by Larry
PennEngineering®
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HP Spectre X360
Details & Findings
Pictures and Description of the
HP Spectre X360 and the
Disassembly Process.
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HP Spectre X360
Teardown – Bottom cover Total eight M2 screws with T5 Torx drivers are removed from bottom cover of the notebook. These 8 screws are engaged in female threads on middle main chassis. Two screws located in hinge corners area are longer than others. The screw details are as below: •Thread: M2 •QTY: 2pcs •OAL: 7.9mm
•QTY: 6pcs •OAL: 3.9mm
•Head Thickness: 0.4mm •Head Diameter: 3.35mm •Nylok: Yes (Blue) •Plating: Pearl Nickel •Driver: T5 Torx •Material: Carbon steel
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Teardown – Bottom cover
Aluminum bottom cover
After remove the bottom cover, all components of battery, speakers, fan, hinges and integrated main PCB can be seen on main chassis.
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Teardown – Battery Total four M2 screws with Phillips drivers are removed from female thread in main chassis, then remove the connector between main PCB and battery, the battery can be disassembled. The screw details are as below •Thread: M2 •QTY: 4pcs •OAL: 4.13mm •Head Thickness: 0.74mm •Head Diameter: 4.36mm •Nylok: Yes (Blue) •Plating: Black Nickel •Material: Carbon steel •Driver: Phillips
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Teardown – Battery
After remove the battery, we can see the touch unit on main chassis. A soft PCB is used to connect mail PCB with touch unit.
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Teardown – Speakers
Total three M2 screws with Phillips drivers are removed from female thread in main chassis, then remove the connector between main PCB and speakers, the two speakers can be disassembled. The screw details are as below •Thread: M2 •QTY: 3pcs •OAL: 2.8mm •Head Thickness: 0.44mm •Head Diameter: 4.34mm •Plating: Black Nickel •Driver: Phillips •Material: Carbon steel
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Teardown – Touch unit Total five M1.6 screws with Phillips drivers are removed from female thread in main chassis, then remove the soft PCB between main PCB and touch unit, the touch unit can be disassembled. The screw details are as below •Thread: M1.6 •QTY: 5pcs •OAL: 2.42mm •Head Thickness: 0.35mm •Head Diameter: 3.8mm •Nylok: Yes (Blue) •Plating: Bright Nickel •Driver: Phillips •Material: Carbon steel
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Teardown – Fan Total two M2 screws with Phillips drivers are removed from standoffs (see page22) on keyboard then remove the connector between main PCB and fan, the fan can be disassembled. On the fan, two M1.6 self-tapping screws are used to fix the top sheet in plastic body. The screw details are as below
• Thread: M2 • QTY: 2pcs • OAL: 4.13mm • Head Thickness: 0.73mm • Head Diameter: 4.34mm • Nylok: Yes (Blue) • Plating: Black Nickel • Driver: Phillips • Material: Carbon steel
• Thread: M1.6 Remform self-tapping • QTY: 2pcs • OAL: 2.5mm • Head Thickness: 0.26mm • Head Diameter: 2.4mm • Nylok: Yes (Blue) • Plating: Black Zinc • Driver: Phillips • Material: Carbon steel
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Teardown – SD card reader One M2 screw with Phillips driver is removed from female thread in main chassis then remove the soft PCB between main PCB and SD card reader, the SD card reader can be disassembled. The screw details are as below •Thread: M2 •QTY: 1pcs •OAL: 2.71mm •Head Thickness: 0.34mm •Head Diameter: 4.46mm •Nylok: Yes (Blue) •Plating: Black Nickel •Driver: Phillips •Material: Carbon steel
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Teardown
Above picture is taken after remove bottom cover, battery, speakers, touch unit, fan and SD card reader.
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Teardown – Heat Sink
Total four M2 screw with Phillips driver is removed from stainless steel standoffs (see page19) , then the heat sink can be disassembled. The screw details are as below •Thread: M2 •QTY: 4pcs •OAL: 2.70mm •Head Thickness: 0.34mm •Head Diameter: 4.32mm •Plating: Black Nickel •Driver: Phillips •Material: Carbon steel
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Teardown – Main PCB
Total two M2 screws with Phillips driver are removed female thread in main chassis and keyboard, then the main PCB can be disassembled.
The screw details are as below •Thread: M2 •QTY: 1pcs •OAL: 2.53mm •Head Thickness: 0.59mm •Head Diameter: 7.0mm •Plating: Black Nickel •Driver: Phillips •Material: Carbon steel
The screw details are as below •Thread: M2 •QTY: 1pcs •OAL: 4.1mm •Head Thickness: 0.74mm •Head Diameter: 4.26mm •Plating: Black Nickel •Driver: Phillips •Material: Carbon steel
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Teardown – Main PCB
Total two M2 screws with Phillips drivers are removed from two blind SMT standoffs (see page18) to disassembly two sub-PCB’s. The screw details are as below •Thread: M2 •QTY: 2pcs •OAL: 2.76mm •Head Thickness: 0.41mm •Head Diameter: 4.34mm •Plating: Black Nickel •Driver: Phillips •Material: Carbon steel
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Teardown – Main PCB
Two blind SMT standoffs are installed in mail PCB to attach two sub-PCB’s. The standoff details are as below •Thread: M2 •QTY: 1pcs •OAL: 3mm •Shank Diameter: 3.05mm •Barrel Diameter: 2.84mm •Flange thickness: 0.38mm •Shank Height: 0.5mm •Plating: Tin plating •Material: Brass
The standoff details are as below •Thread: M2 •QTY: 1pcs •OAL: 4mm •Shank Diameter: 3.05mm •Barrel Diameter: 3.48mm •Flange thickness: 0.38mm •Shank Height: 0.5mm •Plating: Tin plating •Material: Brass
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Teardown – Main PCB
Total four standoffs are installed in 0.5mm panel then the panel is adhered with main PCB. The standoff details are as below •Thread: M2 •QTY: 4pcs •OAL: 2.9mm •Hex: 4.0mm •Barrel Diameter: 3.45mm •Panel thickness: 0.5mm •Material: 303 Stainless steel
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Teardown – Keyboard
Hinges &
Earplug
Hinges &
Power plug
After remove main PCB, we can see the keyboard is fixed in main chassis by screws.
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Teardown – Keyboard Keyboard front side view
Total 56 screws with Phillips drivers are used to fix keyboard into male thread in main chassis. The female threads are tapped in aluminum chassis. The screw details are as below •Thread: M1.2 •QTY: 56pcs •OAL: 1.45mm •Head Thickness: 0.37mm •Head Diameter: 2.33mm •Barrel Diameter: 3.45mm •Plating: Black Nickel •Driver: Phillips •Material: Carbon steel
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Teardown – Keyboard
Total 5 standoffs are installed in 0.2mm thickness keyboard cover panel by flaring installation. The standoff details are as right
•Thread: M2 •QTY: 5pcs •OAL: 2.5mm •Flange Thickness: 1mm •Flange Diameter: 5mm •Barrel Diameter: 3.45mm •Barrel Height: 1.05mm •Material: 303 Stainless steel
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Teardown – Hinge & Earplug & Power Plug
Total 6 screws with Phillips drivers are used to fix hinges, earplug unit and power plug unit with main chassis.
•Thread: M2 •QTY: 1pcs •OAL: 4.15mm •Head Thickness: 0.76mm •Head Diameter: 4.35mm •Nylok: Yes (Blue) •Plating: Black Nickel •Material: Carbon steel
•Thread: M2 •QTY: 1pcs •OAL: 2.15mm •Head Thickness: 0.46mm •Head Diameter: 4.91mm •Nylok: Yes (Blue) •Plating: Bright Nickel •Material: Carbon steel
•Thread: M2.5 •QTY: 4pcs •OAL: 4.1mm •Head Thickness: 0.76mm •Head Diameter: 6.74mm •Nylok: Yes (Blue) •Plating: Bright Nickel •Material: Carbon steel
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Fasteners Summary
The notebook of HP Spectre X360 has a very beautiful cosmetic design and the design is easy to do teardown and repair. Total 106 fasteners are used in it. The list is as below: • Clinch Standoffs: 4pcs
• Self-Tapping Thread Screws: 2pcs
• Machine Thread Screws: 93pcs
• SMT Standoffs: 2pcs
• Flaring Standoffs: 5pcs
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Alternate Solutions
PennEngineering® recommendations of alternate hardware and cost savings
opportunities.
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Alternate Solutions
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Total 56pcs M1.2 screws are used to fix the keyboard with main chassis. The screw driver is #00 Phillips. The following pages are to introduce PEM TackPin parts with advantage and capability to replace the screws.
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Alternate Solutions
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Low-
profile
head
Interference
fit eliminates
hole
tolerance
Tapered
tip assists
location
Positive engagement,
360˚ metal contact.
Will not loosen.
With Screw
Typical screw related issues include
costly tapping, cross-threading,
torque control and vibration backout.
With TackPin™ Fastener
TACKPIN™
How to work?
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Alternate Solutions
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TACKPIN™
What’s the benefits? Tackpin vs. Screws
Ease of Use • No cross threading
• No risk of driver bit
“cam out”
Cost Savings • Locking thread patch
not required.
• Faster assembly -
Just press - Automation
• Reduce scrap
Performance • Stronger in pullout than
the thread strength of a screw
of the same length.
• Less weight than a screw.
• Full metal contact for
grounding/conductivity.
• Smaller head footprint
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Alternate Solutions
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Where can use TackPin? The TackPin application needs ductility bottom panel material like as aluminum and copper. The top panel can be any material. Below two pictures are typical applications. PEM believes the TackPin parts can be used to replace 56 screws with excellent advantages.
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Alternate Solutions
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PEM TackSert Parts:
As below, the top panel of fan is fixed in bottom plastic case by self-tapping screw.
In the case, PEM TackSert parts can be used in the application. The installation will be more
easy and fast by press-in. The total cost will be low by high efficiency and no driver bit cost, also
there is no driver bit “cam-out” issue.
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Alternate Solutions
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Clinch standoffs alternate solution:
PEM can provide standard MSO4 clinching standoffs made by
different materials and sizes to meet more limited application area,
and the minimum sheet thickness could be 0.3mm.
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SMT standoffs alternate solution:
To two used SMT standoffs, PEM can provide two options. One is to use
snap SMT part, this can save one component and remove sub-PCB by
manual. Another is to use PEM design hex standoffs, this can achieve
much higher Torque-out performance.
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Alternate Solutions
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Flaring standoffs alternate solution:
To five flaring standoffs for 0.2mm panel thickness, PEM MSOFS product
line also can be used in the application or even thinner to 0.1mm.
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Alternate Solutions
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Micro Screws alternate solution:
PEM can provide all off these screws of both machine thread and self-
tapping thread with different design solutions. PEM has license with Torx
and Torx Plus driver and self-tapping thread patent as like TAPTITE,
FASTITE, REMFORM and REMFORM “F”.
TAPTITE 2000® "SP"™
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Conclusions and Summary
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The HP Spectre X360 is notebook with excellent design.
Cosmetically, the full solid aluminum body is perfect. The
design also provides easy repair. Most fasteners are
screws and the mated female threads are tapped in the
main chassis. Most screws are used to fix the keyboard
with the main chassis.
PEM has provided alternative solutions to these fasteners,
and we believe our solutions can help our customers
recoup their costs.
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