Re: Oil for plastic laptop hinges

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From: Seerialmom
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:20

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On Aug 11, 2:32 am, "john hamilton" <blues...@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.

Haven't read the rest of these so there could be duplicates.  I'd try
some of that locksmith powdered slate; for the life of me I can't
think of the "name".

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