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Ninja CE200 coffeemaker. Display crystals are not all functional and I want to alcohol wipe their zebra strip and contacts bar. But I can’t budge the button/display module from its mounting inside. It’s trim escutcheon holds it tight to the body and won’t let go of the module from the rear. The back half of the module pops off easily, but that’s no help. To get at the boards and crystal contacts I need to remove the whole module. How does one get it out of the machine? There’s bars on either side that it seems to slide tabs into, but bending them clear of the tabs still won’t allow the module to budge. Update (06/06/2022)
Update (06/06/2022) Escutcheon, module, and module cap (untabbed from module but not removed yet due to restrictive wires)
Aha! I managed to figure out how the circuit board module was fitted in there. It slides into grooves via tabs on its sides, and that part was obvious. Not so much, at first, was that the “chromed” escutcheon was then pressed in from the side opening, snapping onto the outside of the module with the typical multiple tabs around its edge. I managed to ferret a narrow blade screwdriver into the two barely visible slots on top of the module case, twisted, and forced the escutcheon back towards the side opening. Then I barely got the screwdriver into the first (and only other accessible) pockets down the case’s sides, and forced the tabs to let go. Getting those first ones loose put enough stress on the remaining ones that they finagled loose, and the escutcheon finally came out the side. Without the escutcheon holding it, the module easily slid up and out! Yayyy! Now to expose and clean the “zebra” strips, after reviewing videos I watched about that two months ago. Hopefully someone else with the same issue, and confounded by the same control box mounting I ran into, will come across this posting and have some encouragement. The escutcheon side “tabs” are very minimalist and with patience can be overcome.]
Note how slim the escutcheon tabs are around its rim. Their corresponding pockets on the module case are relatively deep, but that can allow more leverage for a narrow blade flat screwdriver, or the #4 blade in the iFixit Essentials Toolkit. Thanks to iFixit for coming up with that kit, so very handy for us non-professional home repair enthusiasts! Items needed for this job:
