Laptop Screen Non-repair

Ricky C · 2020-05-14T23:16:01+00:00

I had mentioned that my laptop was falling apart, literally. The top hinge was loose, almost to the point of bothering me. Our ever lovable Jeff sug gested I should attack it with implements of destruction like screwdrivers and such to tighten the hinge screws. See, that's why Jeff gets the big bu cks, he knows stuff like this. I, in my reluctance to do anything remotely like work and knowing any time I attempt to do work with screwdrivers and other implements of destruction, I am as likely to permanent destroy something as I am to fix it. Slightly less so if I turn off the power first. So I grabbed my largest small screwdriver and removed the two tiny philips head screws (is that capitalized? My spell checker seems to think so) on t he sides of the top. Prying plastic from metal is always the hard part and this was no exception. Not having an adequately large crowbar I used the very sharp points of a pair of fine, wire cutters (the flat, very sharp, st amped kind, not the forever blunt forged kind) and pried it apart both gent ly and when still not succumbing to my efforts, not so gently. Ultimately the ends of the top were only slightly marred and the touch screen was layi ng on my keyboard revealing the assorted screws. Now that I had a target to actually use the screwdriver on, I attacked the hinge screws with glee. Several were quite loose along with some screws ho lding the LCD to the heavy part of the lid. All were tightened, but one wa s missing! Well, maybe not actually missing, more like broken off. I gues s that is why this laptop found its way to eBay, it had already been opened for repair and someone even more ham-fisted than myself managed to sheer a #4 screw! (btw, ham-fisted seems be spelled with a hyphen rather than one or two words, but the verdict is not unanimous, rather the weight of the G oogle first page hits say so). So after not being able to clean the touch screen properly I closed the dis assembled array...

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Phil Hobbs 6 years ago

I usually assume that a used laptop or UPS battery is junk, and get a $50 Chinese one.

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Phil Hobbs

Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 http://electrooptical.net http://hobbs-eo.com

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Steve Wilson 6 years ago

EBay claims the batteries are new. They appear to be.

The issue is how do you charge them?

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Phil Hobbs 6 years ago

Never had a problem with it, though I've bought at least a dozen of them on eBay over the years.

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Phil Hobbs

Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 http://electrooptical.net http://hobbs-eo.com

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