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Article #136Re: Oil for plastic laptop hinges
From: Jason
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:53
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:53
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Rod Speed wrote: > john hamilton <bluestar@mail.invalid> wrote: > >> The hinges on our Fujitsu laptop screen appear to be 'all' plastic and they get very 'difficult to move' making the >> screen difficult to fold up and down. > >> We have have tried 'WD-40', but that seems effective for only a very short time. > > And is bad for the plastic. > >> We are afraid to use ordinary oil as we thought it might effect the plastic. > > So does WD-40. > WD40 is nasty stuff with most plastics. It seems to get inside the plastic and it disintegrates suddenly and catastrophically at a later date. -- JJ
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