Wacom Intuos Pen GP300E Disassembly

I went to use my Intuos tablet and found out that my Wacom pen is f'd up, it acts like it is always in the "clicked" position, the tip sensitivity still worked but it couldn't detect if the tip was being "clicked". The utility said that Button 1 was constantly ON, and only when I rapped it on the side would it flicker off just to come back on. So... $50 bucks for a replacement?? I might as well try to fix it myself...

Sooo I wrangled and pushed and pried to no avail, then... I bent more and more and more and...

D'oh, there was a circuit board right in there that snapped with it.

Anyway, this is how it should have slid apart, maybe if you pushed on the eraser end to help a bit it may come out easier. I really did try pulling the thing apart, just not hard enough I guess.



My hope is that somebody will stumble on this page if they are trying to get their stylus pen apart and do it the right way.






This is an old post which I thought I would place on this blog along with my post about the w580i