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Article #160Re: Oil for plastic laptop hinges
From: Gordon
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:56
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:56
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"john hamilton" <bluestar@mail.invalid> wrote in news:g7p10c$9hg$1@registered.motzarella.org: > 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. > > We are afraid to use ordinary oil as we thought it might effect the > plastic. We were thinking of using olive oil, but somebody has told us > that olive oil 'degrades' and goes sticky, over time. > > We have got some Camellia oil that was given to us, and it's made from > Camellias and it comes from Japan and is suppose not to 'degrade'. > Still it's an unknown quantity to us. > > Does anyone know what would be a suitable and safe lubricant in this > case? Since we dont want to cause any problems with the plastic on > this lap top. Grateful for any suggestions, thanks. > > Do you have a hobby shop in your area? Esp. one that caters to Model railroaders? You can buy a Plastics Compatible Lube there.
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X-Google-Thread: 1131b0,c2280d0f17bcf6c4 X-Google-Thread: faa3c,c2280d0f17bcf6c4 X-Google-Thread: f6c48,c2280d0f17bcf6c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid1131b0,gidfaa3c,gidf6c48,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: Gordon <gonzo@alltomyself.com> Newsgroups: sci.electronics.repair,24hoursupport.helpdesk,misc.consumers.frugal-living,uk.d-i-y Subject: Re: Oil for plastic laptop hinges Followup-To: sci.electronics.repair,misc.consumers.frugal-living Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:56:10 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Your Company Lines: 27 Message-ID: <Xns9AF78398B55EAgreederxprtnet@194.177.96.26> References: <g7p10c$9hg$1@registered.motzarella.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: EOENzrmltwnBiPkKA5aVpA.user.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25