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Orbi Satellite RBS750 Dissasembly
My RBS750 satellite was knocked off its wall stand and the Brass "nuts" located in the unit used to screw it into the stand have dislodged and are floating around within the unit. How do I disassemble the unit to reattach?
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Might check under the rubber footing at the bottom to see if there is any hidden screws there.
Checked and nothing there.
No visible screws under the rubber footing. Nothing under the sticker on the underside of the unit that lists model and serial either.
windyfinch225 wrote:
My RBS750 satellite was knocked off its wall stand and the Brass "nuts" located in the unit used to screw it into the stand have dislodged and are floating around within the unit. How do I disassemble the unit to reattach?
If you find instructions for opening the 750 case, please post them on the forum. I have searched (and searched) for how to open this model and found nothing. Very annoying that after all this time, nobody has come out with how to do this.
From the FCC, kind of looks like the front cover comes off somehow.
https://fccid.io/PY319400470/Internal-Photos/Internal-photos-4603355
Thanks for finding the FCC information on the RBR750. I still can't make any sense of "where to start".
Hi there, if you look at the photo on the FCC website (linked below in this thread), the two extrusions protruding from the bottom of the cover (to the right in that photo) are small cylinders that mate with posts on the chassis that hosts the cover. In my unit, it seems that the factory glued these two parts together; they glued the cover to the posts. Percussive Maintenance is required (I mean, it was dead anyway, innit?).
To note that if you are planning to pull your unit apart, you want to go in from the side with the Ethernet and Power connections.
In my case, the unit did not power on, and it appears that there was a small 'sizzling' moment in the area of the power input circuitry.
Is that solder flux from the factory? The shiny metal heatsink has very clear fingerprints on it. I cleaned up the board and AR221 is gone.
If anyone from Netgear reads these things, I've loaded the barcode from the Motherboard (Including Fingerprints). Could you tell me what goes in AR221? My component has rotted away.
Or I can pull open another one that is still working and measure it!
Thanks,
The RBR750 is similar to other Orbi routers. The screws which must be removed to open the case are hidden behind the label around the Ethernet ports. This guide explains the process for opening the case:
