前天本本的右屏轴坏了，痛心死了。原准备让他坚持工作到从德国回来以后再退役的，谁知道他在去德国前两月不幸患病。前两天它就开始吱吱呀呀的呻吟了，经过小李叔叔的一番恶意破坏之后完全坏死，右屏轴彻底裂开！不过UID的各位叔叔还真是So nice！小李叔叔、张叔叔、刘老大、倪叔叔分别对它进行了拆卸、诊断和提供维修信息以后，我要干的似乎只剩下带着本本去指定地点看病。
海龙的经理叔叔很友善，聊天时不小心透漏了我在西门实习的事情，结果真让我吃惊，他不但请出了他们的主任工程师帮我换屏轴，还主动答应帮我免费清理。看来西门子还是相当有面子滴！
今天上班偷闲浏览一位国外设计师的Blog，打开一看，差点吐血！这位设计师的本本跟我的一样，也是右屏轴坏了，可是看看人家，哎，那叫一个专业！
Well, one day it fell down and the hinge + cover broke at the right side - a problem a lot of notebooks have as parts like the hinges, their covers and the TFT display often brake on notebooks. As a consequence of this, spare parts for such problems are available on Ebay & Co. but require a little investment in terms of at least US-$ 30 and if the battery is also run down, it doesn’t make sense to invest more money in an older machine. In case you have no other (stationary) use for such an inmobile computer (print/file server, router, etc.), it is wiser to sell it as a broken item for those guys who are willing to refurbish it again or use the remaining parts to repair other notebooks.
Since Irene didn’t have any proper use for it, and since she didn’t have the time to sell it locally, she gave it to her mother who took it back to Kenya and from there I picked it up and took it with me to Germany. Imagine this notebook has travelled many many miles just to be repaired!
Hinges for DELL notebooks are expensive - I followed some auctions on Ebay and realized that I’d be too greedy to invest something like EUR 30,- ++ for a (2nd hand!!) hinge - a part which consists of poor aluminium and isn’t that big. The jua kali spirit in me suggested something different…
While chatting with Hash last night, I realized I could use a TUSKER bottle cap to repair that hinge.
The bottle cap of course proved to be too small - although I have to admit I was dying to see a TUSKER item being used for the reparation of the broken hinge. Well, maybe next time.
The next piece of (ma)bati I sighted in the kitchen was an old cookie box - for some ppl that’s just rubbish but for me it equals a source of clean, thin sheet metal that I could use for the repair.
I cut out the desired size, double-layered it (to improve stability)….
…and used flat pliers to mold it around the remaining parts of the hinge.
After some small adjustments, the “new” hinge just fit in perfectly well:
Two screws and some glue add to the stability…
It isn’t THAT strong of course, but compared to what it looked like before, it just works and that’s all I wanted to achieve.
DELL Latitude C600 + Kubuntu. Perfect!
Now, anyone in need of a refurbished notebook? :-) | 
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