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my notebook have broken: http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/a...m/IMG_1614.jpg it's a metal frame and plastic around it have broken, everything else is fine.. is it possible to fix it somehow, say, "bandage" it with some metal plate? |
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"Alex Mizrahi" wrote in message
... hello my notebook have broken: http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/a...m/IMG_1614.jpg it's a metal frame and plastic around it have broken, everything else is fine.. is it possible to fix it somehow, say, "bandage" it with some metal plate? Looks like your hindge ceased and you forced it shut! Open the case very carefully, take the hindge apart with a screw driver, lubricate the hindge and put it back together carefully and not too tightly - just enough to stop the lid from dropping shut under its own weight. The plastic case will now always be flimsy, but you can remove the plastic lid and glue it back together, then always handle it with care! Don't try to glue it while it is still attached - you will never hold it in place properly while the glue grabs and binds. |
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"GT" wrote in message
... "Alex Mizrahi" wrote in message ... hello my notebook have broken: http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/a...m/IMG_1614.jpg it's a metal frame and plastic around it have broken, everything else is fine.. is it possible to fix it somehow, say, "bandage" it with some metal plate? Looks like your hindge ceased and you forced it shut! Open the case very carefully, take the hindge apart with a screw driver, lubricate the hindge and put it back together carefully and not too tightly - just enough to stop the lid from dropping shut under its own weight. The plastic case will now always be flimsy, but you can remove the plastic lid and glue it back together, then always handle it with care! Don't try to glue it while it is still attached - you will never hold it in place properly while the glue grabs and binds. Sorry, spelling mistage - *hinge*, not hindge. |
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"Alex Mizrahi" wrote in message
... hello my notebook have broken: http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/a...m/IMG_1614.jpg it's a metal frame and plastic around it have broken, everything else is fine.. is it possible to fix it somehow, say, "bandage" it with some metal plate? If there's enough of an overlap of the plastic shell and the hinge, remove the screws in the hinge and use JB Weld to glue the plastic shell and hinge together. Pretty strong stuff but you will need enough of the plastic shell to overlap to glue it to the hinge. Don't goop on the glue; otherwise, you may end up gluing the hinge permanently shut. Rather than gluing the shell onto the hinge, you could also cut out a piece of thick metal plate (the hardware store has them in strips so you would only need a hacksaw to cut to length), drill a hole in one end, loosely screw in the screw through the tang's hole into the hinge, make sure the hinge and plastic shell are in the closed position, glue/epoxy the metal tang to the outside of the plastic shell, clamp down the tang onto the plastic shell, and tighten the screw before the glue/epoxy sets. Might work but you also might need to get a longer screw and then have to cut it to length so it accomodates the extra thickness of the metal tang without extending any further beyond the hinge than it does now. |
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On Jul 19, 7:08 am, "Alex Mizrahi"
wrote: hello my notebook have broken: http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/a...m/IMG_1614.jpg it's a metal frame and plastic around it have broken, everything else is fine.. is it possible to fix it somehow, say, "bandage" it with some metal plate? You might opt to replace that hinge rather than attempt to repair it. Really the damage isn't that bad, I've seen MUCH worse. Still it should be fixed, when the screens get broken hinges, the wires connecting the screen to the computer can get buggered up, from stretching and rubbing, and you'd have a worse problem. |
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