Bondo a Notebook

is the lid plastic or metal. if metal what kind of metal? bondo sticks best to strip bare rough up with holes in it for better grip ( like 36 grit paper rough ). the other problem if its like a lot of dells the lid is made out of Magnesium        mm    aaaa a aa    ............ it's really tough to get paint to stick to it bare unless you prep it right. research how to paint magnesium it will give you a good idea.  if it is made of magnesium you might be able to get the bondo to stick fairly well if you just drill a bunch of holes in the depressed ares including if you can a couple at an angle in the circular groove area. other wise if you just bondo on paint it more likely to pop out if it ever gets dropped accidently or even a good hard plop on a desk. (got to remember who's recieving the laptop.).bondo has a terrible sticking quality to paint. also you might want to consider a fiberglass type body filler its like bondo but has  fiber glass strands in the mix. or use a fiberglass mat to fill most of the hole prep the area then soak the mat in some resin and hardner mix, then place in depressd hole area let dry. could use he left over resin hardner mix to fill in more  or bubble it up then sand smooth or leave just a little depressed and then fill with automotive body putty. also bondo quite heavy  compared with some of the newer fiber glass body fillers or even fiberglass. just a few thoughs on it. if  your lid is made of magnesium and you've stripped it bare you might be able to get around the acid washes need to prep magnesium for painting by using a etching primer.

ok. never have owned or worked on a clevo before still hoping. just started working on a Alienware Area 51 M5700I-R2. someone somewere once mensioned clevo were a basically the same as alienware internally. don't know if thats true or not but I sure like to find out. need a  part for that M5700I-R2 and alienware them selves was very less than helpful. I know its older ut you have to start building form some were started working on a bunch of early Dell latitude D series  than been slowly moving up. did several D600,  alot  of D800 still have a bunch of them then did a ton of LCD upgrades for D505's found a cheap way to give them a UXGA screen instead of there max SXGA and mostly 14 and 15 inch XGA's what a screen improvement it made then did a bunch of 810's  then 3 820's 1 830 doing 2 620 for two young nephews. got a rebuilt XPS M170. working on a XPSm1710 and that Alienware right now. oh and a few Inspirons and precissions clones of the D800 and D810's too.

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Originally Posted by qhn 

Pre 2006 we can see many cross-brand systems where the inside can be the same. Not so much anymore, especially where Alienware and Clevo concern.

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Hmm someone told me clevo - sager  - and Alienware were basically the same laptop and that clevo was the main builder. and thought the M5790-M5700I-R2 was released as a pre 2006 for 2006 model. might be wrong on that  though first alienware and all not up on them two well and infos alot hard to find or dig up then Dells stuff. loved the Dell breakdown manuals basically tells you how to trear one down to replace parts  down to the mainboard including scre locations and sizes.