WD40 on laptop hinge

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8 years old.I'd throw it away.I'm just saying that's what I'd do.

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I had few months old Lenovo Thinkpad Edge, which had broken hinge. Tried to get it fixed by the warranty, which was not possible.

Therefore I just use every possibility that I have to encourage people not to buy Lenovo Edges.. not ever.

[That device cost me 20.000B and lasted for couple of months. Now my aim is to make losses for Lenovo worth of 2.000.000 baht.]

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Run a little cyanoacrylate/super glue into the crack in the plastic housing of the hinge. Wait a couple of minutes, cover keyboard/screen etc. with cloth/tissue, squirt the tiniest portion of WD40 [or cheap BigC/Tesco generic] using the plastic tube as supplied. Check your friction-free action!

Poo-poo to those nay-sayer posters who decry your redundant technology! AA

Yes, last night I put a drop of general oil - "Bosny Oil" - on all the places where the hinges were accessible. It appeared to help a little. I like the idea of dropping some super-glue into the existing crack to reinforce it. I may also try some silicone oil and/or WD40 in the hinges. Ensuring the oil goes only into the hinge is critical, but no real problem.

And as it is a fully functional laptop, which I use for surfing the web when I am not at home, I will certainly not be "throwing it out".

or try super glueing a piece of hard plastic over the crack....

Yes, that was one of my first thoughts to strengthen it, except I was going to use epoxy resin. I want to try to get all the hinge points loosened up first and then apply the strengthening ideas.

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I had few months old Lenovo Thinkpad Edge, which had broken hinge. Tried to get it fixed by the warranty, which was not possible.

Therefore I just use every possibility that I have to encourage people not to buy Lenovo Edges.. not ever.

[That device cost me 20.000B and lasted for couple of months. Now my aim is to make losses for Lenovo worth of 2.000.000 baht.]

Yeah, ditto for Samsung.

Appalling service can be found everywhere. My 80,000+ baht Apple PowerBook Pro was taken into the official Apple service agents in Bangkok,[ironically called iCare] to replace the hard drive [out if warranty, I dropped it, no argument about me paying]. Several weeks after getting it back and reinstalling everything I ran out of disc space and discovered they had replaced my 750GB drive with 500GB. No chance of getting these iCare shysters to remedy their fraud and to their shame Apple corporate was not prepared to intervene but a regional executive offered me a discount on an external hard drive. Gutless management and unwillingness to back up brand promises happens everywhere unfortunately

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Silicon spray is good, lubricates well, no smell and very clean. Super- glue a patch over the crack, then throw the whole lot in the bin and treat yourself to a new laptop.

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I had few months old Lenovo Thinkpad Edge, which had broken hinge. Tried to get it fixed by the warranty, which was not possible.

Therefore I just use every possibility that I have to encourage people not to buy Lenovo Edges.. not ever.

[That device cost me 20.000B and lasted for couple of months. Now my aim is to make losses for Lenovo worth of 2.000.000 baht.]

Yeah, ditto for Samsung.

Yes yes, encourage more people to buy Samsung [ cause you or someone else unknowingly dropped your laptop when it was inside a bag].

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First - on that picture, your screws and metal connectors have corroded. Throw it out.
Second - never use WD40 on plastic since it is a petroleum based product [although lightly so].
Third - yes I'm an Apple fanboy, but if you insist on a Windows based product, the Samsung Series 9/7/5, in that order, looks good. The Google Chromebook as well, although I guess a computer where everything is internet based will not be an awesome experience in a land like Thailand.
Fourth - I'd still like to suggest an Apple MacBook Air, MacBook Pro [or even an iPad if you don't use you computer for real heavy stuff]. Apple will announce new products and software updates today, at their World Wide Developers Conference so check those out. I used to be a hard core Windows guy who did real heavy lifting on my machines. I even tried the Linux route. After a few weeks with OS X, I hated myself for not switching years ago.

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Whenever you use any "super glue" type product, there's a real danger of permanently fogging over any plastic in the immediate vicinity. The hinge is so close to the screen and keyboard, you MUST cover these areas.

Eight years? You must really like your machine a lot. [Not that there's anything wrong with that!]

I don't mind if the glue/reinforcing plate doesn't look good, as long as it doesn't affect the functionality of the laptop. But obviously I will try to make it look neat.

My main PC is a desktop that I built a year or so ago. That cost just under 40,000 baht and is quick. But the laptop cost double that, 8 years ago, and works fine. Before I built the desktop, I used the laptop to download torrents at 1.5 Megabytes/sec, watch HD movies, do video editing, etc. But now I just use it for browsing the web when I'm out of the house.

The main drawback with the laptop is that it weighs a ton. But since the cd/dvd still works, the SD card reader still works, the Wi-Fi works, the LAN works, why not fix the hinge? It also has Bluetooth, but I've never used that.

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First - on that picture, your screws and metal connectors have corroded. Throw it out.

Second - never use WD40 on plastic since it is a petroleum based product [although lightly so].

Third - yes I'm an Apple fanboy, but if you insist on a Windows based product, the Samsung Series 9/7/5, in that order, looks good. The Google Chromebook as well, although I guess a computer where everything is internet based will not be an awesome experience in a land like Thailand.

Fourth - I'd still like to suggest an Apple MacBook Air, MacBook Pro [or even an iPad if you don't use you computer for real heavy stuff]. Apple will announce new products and software updates today, at their World Wide Developers Conference so check those out. I used to be a hard core Windows guy who did real heavy lifting on my machines. I even tried the Linux route. After a few weeks with OS X, I hated myself for not switching years ago.

Irrelevant that the screws are corroded.

As for those connectors, I don't use them as they are for a dock and an external monitor.

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First - on that picture, your screws and metal connectors have corroded. Throw it out.

Second - never use WD40 on plastic since it is a petroleum based product [although lightly so].

Third - yes I'm an Apple fanboy, but if you insist on a Windows based product, the Samsung Series 9/7/5, in that order, looks good. The Google Chromebook as well, although I guess a computer where everything is internet based will not be an awesome experience in a land like Thailand.

Fourth - I'd still like to suggest an Apple MacBook Air, MacBook Pro [or even an iPad if you don't use you computer for real heavy stuff]. Apple will announce new products and software updates today, at their World Wide Developers Conference so check those out. I used to be a hard core Windows guy who did real heavy lifting on my machines. I even tried the Linux route. After a few weeks with OS X, I hated myself for not switching years ago.

Irrelevant that the screws are corroded.

As for those connectors, I don't use them as they are for a dock and an external monitor.

Yes, irrelevant but telltale that it might be time to look for a new one.

Apple released a new MacBook Air today. Weighs very little. Fast as a bullet. Battery life is 12 hours for the 13 inch. Runs Windows too. We also got a sneak preview of the upcoming Mac Pro machine. Holy mother of gigaflops, it's a beast!

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Would it be an Acer? I had to prop the screen of mine up against a wall to use it until I upgraded. Sony has lasted much better!