What you need
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Place the TV screen side-down.
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Using PH#2 screwdriver, begin to loose the eleven screws of the back-casing (highlighted in green boxes).
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Work your way around the TV until you can pull the back cover off.
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Note that two different type of polymers are molded together (red box). It is not possible to further separate them.
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Remove cables: Disconnect all twelve connectors (highlighted in red boxes) and separate the tapes used to fix cables to the metal casing.
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Remove Printed Circuit Boards (PCB): Using PH#2 screwdriver, begin to loose the thirteen screws (highlighted in green boxes) which fix the PCBs to the metal casing.
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Remove the speakers by extracting them manually from their mountings (blue boxes).
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Using PH#1 screwdriver, loose the only screw that fixes the front frame and the display unit (highlighted in green box).
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Place the TV facing screen up and remove the front frame.
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Again, as with the back-housing, the front frame contains two different polymer types molded together (red box).
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Using a slotted screwdriver, begin to lever the nineteen clips of the inner frame (highlighted in blue boxes) starting at the bottom of the TV.
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Continue to work your way around the frame counterclockwise until you can pull the frame off.
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Then, remove the already exposed polarized foils.
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Using slotted screwdriver, loose the four clips (blue boxes of the first picture).
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Remove the protective foil and access the backlight unit.
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Use your fingers to pry open the PCBs from the clips on the metallic casing (blue boxes of the second picture).
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In total, loose thirty-two clips starting with the four LED containing PCBs and ending with the connection PCB on the side.
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Using slotted screwdriver, loose twenty clips.
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Remove the plastic frame located inside the metal casing which is mounted in four pieces.
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