My friend's iSight would turn on, give him 2 sec. of video, and then shut off. So he asked me if I could look at it .

As I was playing with the on/off switch, it sounded like it had a piece of sand in it. Sounds like it is time to take that thing apart. I love taking Apple stuff apart. It's like a Rubik's Cube.

Time to Dive In
Is it time to admit that I have no idea what I am doing?

I started by taking out the 2 small under screws.

Next I had to pull out the little white plastic piece on the bottom. I discovered that in order to do this, I first had to pull the front lens a little. to make a big enough gap to fit a screw driver in and pop the plastic piece out.

With that out, I was able to pull on the front lens and slip the camera out of its metal shell.

Once it was out, I still had to take off the lens to get the sand pebble out. Looking around the lens, I found three more screws that needed to be removed.

Once the screws were removed, I could not find any sand. Ummmmm... well it sounded like it was there. Now that I have it apart, let's see if it works. After plugging it into my Powerbook, it looked like it worked fine. Time to put it back together, but not before I take photos to show you all the insides (see below). Now with it all back together, it works and it sounds like the sand is gone, but I still can't find it.

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