bendy-wendy
October 11th, 2003 | Filed under Technology.Laptop’s all better now :-)
After opening the case, tightening all the screws, straightening the screen supports and applying copious amounts of Araldite to anything that looks Important And Vital I have a nicely working laptop hinge again.
No doubt it’ll break again one day, but providing I don’t cause any actual damage to the electronics or totally bugger the lid, I can fix it again… and again. It’s tempting to fibreglass the lid, but I’d then not be able to get inside again, and I’d probably get epoxy on the screen. The thing I don’t like is that the plastic back of the screen is structural, as is the main body of the laptop, and they flex quite a lot when bending the lid.
Mind you, given a bit of time and elementary fibreglassing lessons, I could probably make a new case to put the guts in (or just find somewhere selling cheap laptops and get a new one).
Hmm… I suppose it’s just the right size for making some sort of display panel - kind of like a tablet PC, but without the touchscreen.
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