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"john hamilton" 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.

p.s.

if u look at this ebay auction of a laptop hinge

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ADVENT-3087-LE...6.c0.m14.l1318

the actual hinge is a pole underneath the black part in the middle.

Grease is used on it.

the WD40 may have degraded the grease.

I seem to semember that trying to loosen the screws was difficult.

It does need fixing though, because it puts pressure on the frame, screen
and surrounding plastics, causing cracks and eventually .....


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