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Article #166Re: Oil for plastic laptop hinges
From: George
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:08
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:08
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"john hamilton" <bluestar@mail.invalid> wrote in message 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. > > The hinges on LTs are not plastic but have a plastic covering over the steel hinges. Loosening the will result in the screen lid not staying in the position thats required of the user. If you must loosen them then do it the proper way,get it serviced. If its out of warrenty then try and find out how to remove the plastic covering of hinges,normally this can be done without having to dismantle the whole casing?
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