"Halmyre" wrote in message
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On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 9:38:24 AM UTC+1, Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 01:04:54 -0700, Halmyre wrote:

On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 4:20:03 AM UTC+1, Simon Mason wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire S7 and the DC power socket is goosed so I looked
up the part on ebay and it is only £4.50. However, the youtube video
on
fitting it lasted 50 minutes so I took it to a repair man who said the
job would take HIM about 1.5 hours.

What a palaver for such a simple part - still he'll only charge me
£20.

That'll be 40 minutes to undo all the screws and prise the case open,
10
minutes to change the part and 40 minutes to put the bugger back
together again.

I have done that job on multiple Lenovo laptops. Yes, can take up to an
hour, although I'm getting faster!

(well, only two. But the same one three times, and the other one twice.
Son is careless with them)


On my Lenovo the power socket is (was) partly held in place by a thin
plastic lug, part of the casing. Sudden jolt to the plug = broken lug =
loose socket; as a temporary (hah) bodge I've fed the socket outside the
casing on its stub of cable (which keeps breaking off and needing
resoldered). At some point I'll apply a large lump of Araldite to try and
fix it in place and then replace the 50-odd screws that hold it together,
trying to remember which of the dozen-odd different shapes and lengths of
screw goes where.

That last is one area where a decent phone with a camera or other electronic
camera helps heaps now.