Smartphones and tablets aren’t known for being easy to fix. To keep a slender profile, glue is often used to hold parts together, making components difficult to remove. And then there’s getting inside the chassis in the first place. Pentalobe screws, Apple? Where am I supposed to find those?
If you want to do a simple fix yourself, it’s nigh on impossible if you can’t properly open the device and remove screwed down parts. Luckily, the folks over at iFixit have made the difficult-to-find tools they use for their famous teardowns available to the masses. Perhaps one of the most useful is the company’s 54 bit driver kit, a handy toolkit housing, you guessed it, 54 different drivers that magnetically attach to an adapter.
Inside, you’ve got 12 varieties of driver tips, including nut, hex, square, torx, and pentalobe. Each of these are available in a handful of different sizes. The kit also includes a SIM ejector tool and a magnet -- useful for collecting those itty bitty screws once you’ve removed them from your phone or tablet.
Now, if you need to replace a cracked screen or some other faulty component, you can be armed and ready with whatever teeny, tiny screwdriver you may need. You can grab the kit for $25 over at iFixit’s website.
