Re: Oil for plastic laptop hinges

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From: d
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:38

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"john hamilton" <bluestar@mail.invalid> wrote in message 
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> 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.

If you can get the hinge covers of, you may find a few screws holding the 
hinge-proper in place.

You could try loosening these, or even dismantling the hinge and cleaning 
it. They will be metal parts,

You may find a manual for the laptop on the Fujitsu website.

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