I replaced my decade old MacBook Pro battery with battery purchased from iFixit. It was quite a painful process: 1. disassemble the entire logic board, 2. clean up the old adhesive residue (most painful part...) and 3. I accidentally broke off the backplate of the trackpad too...
I am planing to use the MacBook as a web server, so it might be harsh for the battery and I might need to replace it again. So when I put on my new battery, I decided to use some corn starch to make the adhesive on the new battery to lose their adhesiveness, this way if I ever want to remove the battery, I don't have to do the whole thing again.
Because I am using it as a server there is no moving around. Also I am planning to put some thermal pads between the battery and the case which should help both make battery cooler and hold the battery in place if I ever need to move it.
Does this sound like a good idea, are there caveats I didn't think of?