Re: Oil for plastic laptop hinges

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From: Arfa Daily
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:08

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"Shawn Hirn" <srhi@comcast.net> wrote in message 
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> In article <g7p10c$9hg$1@registered.motzarella.org>,
> "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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> I suggest you contact Fujitsu's tech support to discuss this problem.

Dry graphite lock lubricant, maybe ? A tint squirt of wax furniture polish ?

Arfa

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