Repairing a broken hinge of a laptop. I’m absolutely no expert on laptops :). Quick fix botchwork, you can as well call it “how not to fix a laptop” if you prefer. Gluing back and reinforcing the brass inserts (with inner thread for screws) that came loose out of the plastic. Trying the super glue and baking soda method.
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awesome, i also keep my laptop lid open and cover it with a cloth for years now for the same reason.. i don't want to wear the hinges down..
That will not last long you can see the metal fatigue on the framework
The laptops are designed with planned obsolescence as main objective. The fluid lubricating the hinges increases viscosity with time, making harder to open and close the lids, and after a few years breaking the hinges support. And with the end of moore's law there is a decrease in the necessity of changing computers. But at the same time the windows becomes crapier using more resources and delivering less pushing you to buy newer computers. That's in favour of linux wich you can use older equipments with better performance and lower resources comsumption than newer equipments.
Just use Premium Laptop, much better mechanics… ThinkPad x or t series (my persolal favorites ) or maybe HP elitebook
Business laptops are way better built than consumer ones. They are a lot more expensive of course, but you can still get a used one for a reasonable price.
I love this kind of video from you
Sorin of Electronicsrepairschool uses a slightly better method: Heat up the area and then pour a lot of hot melt glue on it. This makes a much stronger bond than just regular hot melt. Careful not to heat the LCD.
Hello Diode! I love your videos, but this one needs more saaaaaaaaaaaalt
It happened to my laptop too! The same thing unfortunately
I despise working on laptops like this. Working on some of the nicer ones with all metal frames is not bad, but even then I usually shy away from helping people fix their laptops. They're just not meant to be serviced and people treat them like crap.
Love your screw collection 😂
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiceeee! Thank you for the video.
Lol. I remembered reading a design article years ago claiming the reason monitor bezel is huge bc it is to protect the LCD from damage either from bumping on the screen edges or general rough handling like Mr DGW did. Manufacturers build laptop so flimsy, we now have bezel-less laptop! Don't believe everything designers and manufacturers says.
Thanks!
"Laptops work for 2,3,4,5 years and then you trash it", you forgot to add "because I'm a cheap skate and always buy the cheapest trash". MacBooks are made of Aluminium, no plastics, they easily last 10 years but how would you know if you always buy cheap trash?
I also will not work on "modern" craptops; which are really just billboards for M$ at this point, that only exist to be sold- not to truly endure. Just as you said- you can't even easily/regularly clean the fan. Yet the supposedly "obsolete" metal Dells of 8-10 years ago are out there still running! 😅
That hinge design is so bad that every laptop manufacturer wants it so they can sell more laptops or at least more spare parts.
The lid should be opened and closed slowly, people treat laptops as if they were books, most users open or close them in a second or less, I think 3 seconds is a good compromise between ripping off the hinges and people looking at you… Imagine that you are opening a bottle of soda that you have previously shaken and you do not want to end up wet.
Most HP laptops don't have battery charge limit. Yes don't buy HP laptops guys
Nice work.
A cause of hinge stiffness and one thing you did not do was to lubricate the hinges
hallaaaaw this laptop screen is brooooken
U are exactly my type my man ,like you from Indi
HPs are also notorious for their bad hinge designs.
All HP laptops I have used had this hinge problem. My new Asus laptop is much better.
A few years ago, I read that sodium bicarbonate catalyses the polymerization of cyanoacrylate glue. I rarely use super glue without it these days, it sets like concrete. It does get very hot though
@DiodeGoneWild –
Especially a problem in modern style laptops (since ~2007) with those intentionally wrong desinged hinges that just open ~120° instead of 180° like 20 years ago …
this happended only because the laptop is constructed wrong ! How to do it right? -> look at a 20 years old Lenovo / IBM laptops (with Windows XP) …
Good work. Something like that can never happen with my (expensive) laptop, it has been stationary on my desk for 4 years.
I hate how these types modern laptops are built. You cannot dissemble the keyboard or replace it for cleaning, most batteries are built in and are very expensive to replace unlike the old 18650 ones, and for some reason, they are becoming more fragile and harder to access to the inside.
Ik someone had the same laptop as this with the same problem, replaced the top part that holds the keyboard then it was good
thank you for the detailed guide, it helped me install this soft
I have had a very unpleasant experience related to this problem. The bracket was basically lifting up while opening and closing the laptop screen, and somehow the display cable got under it. After a while, a sharp edge managed to damage the cable, which also shorted. I got a burned hinge cover (cable caught on Fire and melted the plastic) and a dead motherboard too. Il literally fried the built-in GPU of the processor. I ended up replacing the PC entirely.
If only you had posted this video sooner… I had a cheap Lenovo laptop that had developed this exact problem. But it had gotten to the point where the metal strip snapped off of the hinge and later took a bite out of the LCD panel.
Sorin at Electronics repair school uses hotglue for this job. Strong and still a bit flexible is key to a long lasting hinge repair. Watch his videos. His repairs seems to last better than the OEM design anyway.
I want windows 11 on your laptop
When I saw 'Broken laptop hinge' I immediately thought 'HP'…
Got the a more recent model of the same line from work and first thing I did was install GNUslashLinux on it besides the standard winblows 11 cancer. Well, it's alright for a recent middle class model. Linux runs fine, besides some small bugs, the plastic housing makes a reasonable impression, it's got room for storage and memory upgrades – could easily slip a second harddrive into the DVD bay.
Nice to see that not every modern laptop is a chromebook/ultraslim cancer that doesn't even have USB ports anymore. Let's hope it doesn't fail in the same ways as yours.