Nintendo Switch Lite Shell Swap / Complete Teardown & Reassembly 

Thank you! And now you have learned this handy trick as well. 😊

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It's the few people who will use this video as a guide that made it worth the effort. 🙂 Thank you for your kind words!

Was it difficult??

Thanks for using my video! 😁 I hope it goes smooth for you.

@@MichaelClarke91 Glad I could help. Thanks for the compliment! 😀

You are very welcome! Thank you for using this video as a guide, and for the kind comment!

Fantastic! Great job on doing it yourself, and thank you for using my video!

Thank you! That's exactly the purpose for making this video.

Good luck brother. You got this!

Got all the way down to where you remove the cartridge reader and they have a screw so tight i stripped it trying to unscrew it. 🥴 So I have no idea if I'll be able to continue lol

@@EastSide_LB There always has to be something that goes wrong during a project. Lol. Maybe if you get all the other screws out, then you can rotate the entire reader a little bit to force the screw to turn loose???

​​​@@MakeStuffDoMoreWas actually able to finish the job without having to remove the last screw. Made it slightly inconvenient to plug in the 2 ribbon cables but definetly doable. Took alot of the day due to it being my first whole shell swap lol but with the help of my GF was able to get it done. On a side note, she says when you're concentrating you sound like Matthew McConaughey on Dazed and Confused. 😂 Thanks again for the detailed video brotha! Watched it another 20 times today while doing the tear down/rebuild. 🙏

Thank you! My next video with a very unique joy-con mod is almost complete, and my goal is to have it up this weekend.

That's actually what I'm doing this weekend! I'll be shell swapping the Joy-Cons and the back cover on the Switch.

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The tape. So simply, yet so profound. 😁 Thank you for watching and commenting! 😀🙂

Thank you so much! I really need to work harder to get my next videos uploaded.

@@MakeStuffDoMore how do you mod your switch without a puce picofly ?

There is a soft mod that can be done on units that are old enough and not already patched. Thank you for the idea on another video. 😁

Thank you for the compliment. I hope you can get that part attached again. I've seen one before that somebody accidentally detached. It took the pins off the board with it, but the solder pads remained usable and I was able to solder it back on with a very fine tip on my iron @ 280°C. Not sure if this helps, but I'm guessing that's what you're gonna be dealing with.

@@MakeStuffDoMore thank you! Surprisingly, I was able to find a replacement board on Amazon for $10! Watched your video again for installing it. Can’t thank you enough!

@@michellemccormick1766 This is too good to hear! Great job on the shell swap with included repair. It's not for the faint of heart and you totally won.

@@cesarherrera2703 I haven't noticed any rattling but I did notice that the ExtremeRate stuff doesn't fit together quiet as well as the stock stuff, so probably normal.

You're welcome 😁

It's really good that your system mostly works after your first time ever tackling a project like this. It's possible that the heat and stress of removing the screen was the culprit, but you might get lucky and find that a ribbon cable isn't seated and locked in just right. Either way, congrats on taking on such a project. It's definitely not for the faint of heart, and you'll get better every time you do something like this.

Hey, it was the ribbon cable! The fat one under the card reader. Finally everything works. So so happy now. Couldn't have done it without thr help from your video.

@@josephshatrowsky That's fantastic! Great job brother! Perseverance is a powerful thing. Shame on RU-vid for not notifying me of this wonderful comment.

The one in the video was a gift, but you can find these on Amazon.

@@MakeStuffDoMore thanks bro, I just found one on our local online shop!

You're welcome!

Great question! It's always a good idea to remove any SD card or game cartridge before disassembly to avoid damage or loss of data.

I had my reflow station set at minimum temp, which is 95°C and maximum air flow. It took a while at that low temperature, but I didn't want to risk overheating the display panel or digitizer.

@@MakeStuffDoMore thanks for answering

I used Arctic Silver 5 just because I already had it and it was a good match.

You'll have to do your own research on that one. All I have is a cheap one I picked up at Microcenter. 😬

That is correct. The new glass is just a screen protector with some grey paint on it.

I would guess that the reduced thermal transfer would result in slower performance. You might have success re-using the old stuff though.

So true. I think a darker purple one would have been really nice.

Thank you for pointing this part out. The problem (besides my camera angle) is that the plastic bumper will catch on the button and force it backwards and crooked when it should be floating right over the top of it. Basically I just put an exacto blade in between the button and the plastic bumper, so that the bumper is forced to slide over the top of the button. Good luck on completing it, and thank you for using my tutorial. 🙂

Did you ever figure out the bumper issue? I’m having the same issue, the bumper button is way too tight and it’s pressing into the PCB button permanently.

@@fluffybutt35I didn’t man, I ended up just using the oem bumpers on both sides.

Isopropyl alcohol. 99% is best, but a lower concentration is fine. The lower concentration has more water, so you just have to make sure that it's fully dry if you happen to get it all over the circuit board.

Good question. I generally just try to have a very thin layer that covers the entire die, but isn't too much that it'll squish out all around it when the heat sink goes back on. You can see in the video how sloppy of a job I did, and it probably did squish out all around it, but it's perfectly fine and works just the same as before the shell swap.

@@MakeStuffDoMore awesome thanks for replying so fast👌will let you know how I get on first attempt at something remotely like this

@@hollywood2038 Oh, now that's what I like to hear. Somebody getting into this type of thing for their first time.😁 Thanks for using my guide!

really novice question as I know yours turnt on whilst re assembling,would you let the thermal paste "set" before use??

@@hollywood2038 I wouldn't worry about that at all.

I didn't have much of an issue with that while doing the switch lite, but I had that problem when shell swapping the joy-cons. I hope ExtremeRate's QC department isn't the issue here.

Maybe there's a ribbon cable that's not seated properly, or not clipped in. That's the first thing I would check.

Thank you for the comment. May I ask what invoked the word "yikes"?

@@MakeStuffDoMore because it’s a lot more work than what I was thinking.

@@yonye. That's kinda what I was thinking. It definitely was a fair bit of work. I think I spent around 25 hours between doing the shell swap and making the video. Thank you again for the feedback!

I actually wouldn't mind doing these for people. I'll have to get a P.O. box setup for people to send things for repair or modification.