MMOBIELUltra-Thin Professional Stainless Steel Spudger Pry Repair Opening Tool with Rubber Grip Handle

I had a metal "guitar pick" that bent too easily. This is very thin but has not bent yet. It work better than anything else I have used in the past 10+ years.

This is a well-made tool, but not thin enough to get under the glued bottom panel of the Microsoft Surface Book keyboard. A video shows disassembly with a box cutter blade, which indeed was thin enough. This tool was better than plastic pics working around the perimeter.

These are pretty decent for simple repairs but the small tool is pretty flimsy so just don’t do anything too hard with it.

Very durable

I went shopping for a very thin spudger because I was about to open my 27" iMac. I have used the cheap black plastic wheel in the past for this task, but found that it was a real struggle to break open the foam tape that glues the glass LCD display to the iMac's aluminum enclosure. This time I thought I would try a spudger, and went looking for one that I thought was very thin to make easy work of cutting through the foam.Note that the third bullet item in the ad says "Ultra-thin ony (sic) 0.03mm Polished edges design..." I should have known that this was an absurd claim because 0.03mm = 0.0012", which is almost metal foil thick, but maybe it was some uber strong stainless steel and was really that thickness? The answer is no, it's clearly a typo because a micrometer measurement shows that it's 0.3mm = 0.012" thick. I.e., it is pretty stiff, hardly "ultra-thin." The black plastic wheel is about 0.42mm, or 0.017" thick, barely any difference. Oh well, live and learn.As I cut around the perimeter of the LCD panel to open the iMac up, I found that despite the "rubber handle," it's still too thin to hold comfortably, and that 12 mil edge is dangerous to your fingers if you push hard on it. I ended up wrapping several layers of masking tape around the handle for a better grip and to add some hand protection. Mmobiel would be better served if the handle were more like 1/4" thick rather than it's 1/16" thickness.Lastly, I learned a lesson the hard way: NEVER USE A SPUDGER TO OPEN AN IMAC!!!!! That's because at the top of the display sits some extremely sensitive circuitry, the column drivers for the 5k display. There are 2880 columns that span a distance of about 23.5". That means that there has to be a way to drive the individual columns that are on 0.008" centers. TINY! If you stick something too deep into the top of the display, like ... oh, I don't know, A SPUDGER, you might penetrate this area and destroy some of the column drivers.Which is exactly what happened. When I reconnected the LCD display, I had a bunch of black vertical bars in the display that were not there before opening it! The spudger managed to cut through many of the column drivers! I had to spend $350 to buy a new replacement display! That little black plastic wheel may be a pain to work with, but its simple design limits the depth of penetration to under 3/8". The spudger does not!So while the spudger does what it is supposed to do, I give it decent marks despite the mistaken claims of its thickness. Just be aware to never use in to open an iMac! You have been warned!

Opening tool was the main reason I bought this kit. My son and daughters iPads both had cracked screens. I was able to easily remove the glass with a dryer and this opening tool. I have replaced two screens so far and the tool is still holding up. I feel like I could replace many more with this opening tool before needing to be replaced.

Would buy again if I found myself in need of it.

I’ve done 3 total iPhone repairs. The first repair I did was without this tool, and it was very difficult and time consuming to remove the screen. The other 2 iPhone repairs I did using this tool, and it made the job much easier. I would definitely recommend this because it reduces your time and frustration of the fix.