Okay. So I THOUGHT Id get lucky and NOT have the cracking monitor hinge problem....WRONG! So after reading all the posts, and wondering what to do. (You see I dont want to use my BB warrenty just yet, as there is nothing else wrong with my lappie! and no dead pixels on my screen.), I fixed it myself.
Its not "perfect" but here is what I did. (Sorry no pics yet....no camara with me.)
I had a hairline crack develope in the RIGHT hinge (sitting at the laptop looking back.) Playing with the hinge, I noticed that opening the lid on the lappie put pressure on the hinge that actually "closed" the crack. I decided to chance it and try something. I applied a bit of super glue to the crack (not the gel, the liquid) and put said pressure on the hinge so the crack would cure closed. It worked....for a couple of days. Then the crack came back. OK. Do it again. Again it worked for a couple of days.....crack came back....no bigger just the same.
OK....Here is where I get creative (and its held for 4 days so far no sign of wear....and I open and close the lid several times a day.)
When the crack came back, I decided to sand the hinge down a bit with VERY light grade sandpaper to get rid of some of the residual glue on the hinge......well, a strange put nice thing happened....The risidual glue, (now dust, settled in the crack (along with some plastic from the hinge itself. HMMM.. I wonder what would happen if I put some more super glue in the (now dust particle filled crack). I did it, put pressure on the crack by holding the lid towards open and letting it "cure". Cure it the special word here. I believe that what has happened is this:
We all now that super glue tends to "melt" for a lack of a better word, plastics. Well, I believe that when I applied the super glue to the plastic and old glue particles that settled in the crack, it "melted" the particles and adhered to the rest of the hinge. Thus bonding it back together. So no I have a hinge that, while does show "some" sign of repair is definetly better off than it was when cracked!
I have no idea how long it will last, but its doing good for now.
Hyestar
Its not "perfect" but here is what I did. (Sorry no pics yet....no camara with me.)
I had a hairline crack develope in the RIGHT hinge (sitting at the laptop looking back.) Playing with the hinge, I noticed that opening the lid on the lappie put pressure on the hinge that actually "closed" the crack. I decided to chance it and try something. I applied a bit of super glue to the crack (not the gel, the liquid) and put said pressure on the hinge so the crack would cure closed. It worked....for a couple of days. Then the crack came back. OK. Do it again. Again it worked for a couple of days.....crack came back....no bigger just the same.
OK....Here is where I get creative (and its held for 4 days so far no sign of wear....and I open and close the lid several times a day.)
When the crack came back, I decided to sand the hinge down a bit with VERY light grade sandpaper to get rid of some of the residual glue on the hinge......well, a strange put nice thing happened....The risidual glue, (now dust, settled in the crack (along with some plastic from the hinge itself. HMMM.. I wonder what would happen if I put some more super glue in the (now dust particle filled crack). I did it, put pressure on the crack by holding the lid towards open and letting it "cure". Cure it the special word here. I believe that what has happened is this:
We all now that super glue tends to "melt" for a lack of a better word, plastics. Well, I believe that when I applied the super glue to the plastic and old glue particles that settled in the crack, it "melted" the particles and adhered to the rest of the hinge. Thus bonding it back together. So no I have a hinge that, while does show "some" sign of repair is definetly better off than it was when cracked!
I have no idea how long it will last, but its doing good for now.
Hyestar
