notebook kaput

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Alex Mizrahi said:
hello

my notebook have broken:

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa12/killerstorm/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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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.
 
GT said:
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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Sorry, spelling mistage - *hinge*, not hindge.
 
Alex Mizrahi said:
hello

my notebook have broken:

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa12/killerstorm/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?
Click to expand...


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.
 
hello

my notebook have broken:

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa12/killerstorm/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?
Click to expand...

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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