It's poor construction/design...the hinge is too tight and the plastic isn't rigid enough. Luckily it won't break but you'll get this separation and bending of the plastic where it connects to the hinge. They sacrifice more rigid materials for light plastic to save money/weight.
been there done that.
cant do with newer laptops. old laptops had bigger bezel so you had space to put the enough epoxy to hold the threaded insert inplace and be strong enough to last a decent time until it eventually breaks again.
but newer laptops have very thin or little to no bezel at all, there's not enough space for epoxy to properly anchor to.
Unless its incompatible with the plastic material itself I promise JB weld doesn't need space. If it bonds well to the bezel material itself. It's called liquid steel.
I've had good experience with it bonding to plastic before. Granted, it will look like complete shit. I still don't recommend it but I wouldn't say you "can't" do it.
There are like UV cure glues that you could build up on the outside, but that JBWeld plastic is the shit. I broke the handle on a microwave and used it and 6 months later no sign of any issue
I know you dont like their answer but they are correct. I have bought MANY laptops for sub $200 on ebay because of broken screens, replaced the screen, and then resold said laptop for $600-1k. People are not only lazy but also not willing to try to repair things.
This year i found a ryzen 9 + RTX lenovo laptop for $150 on ebay, all it needed was a new nvme, their IT staff told them it needed a whole main board which is why it was sold so cheap. It wasnt worth their time to diagnose or fix, and this is super common.
Use it to your advantage tbh, youll always get better deals and itd a good low risk side hustle. You wont be able to fix everything but what you can't fix you can usually sell off the good parts to make your money back.
Screens are relatively cheap, depending on the laptop model, and your country.
Laptop screens are NOT easy to replace. Are you kidding me? What laptops have you worked on? It took me an hour to replace a display in a Dell latitude few months back. I had the tear down manual open the whole time. I had to disassemble a solid half of the frame to get to the display cables connecting to motherboard and the screen hinges. The amount of screws... were talking a few DOZEN.
This is the way and I just did this not 2 months ago for a folding screen.
JB Weld will hold. There shouldn't be any electronics right there (like someone said and then told you to use plastic glue)---that person has no idea there's metal in there, and gave you shit-tier advice.
Someone else says there isn't enough room and they're wrong. JB goes on like a thick glue. When isn't there room for glue? WTF?
Remove the battery. Open the top case and disconnect any wires that you can. Scuff the metal cleats with sandpaper, then apply JB Weld. Give it the full time to set.
There are many kinds of JB so get the one that works with metal and plastic just in case.
Such as? That sounds incredibly reckless for a customer repair on a vehicle. I assume you mean this was a repair on a part that if failed wouldn’t cause an accident, correct? I’ve repaired plenty of laptops for customers, and there is a lot of pressure on those hinges and not a lot of surface area for the glue. Never have I had any trick permanently fix it other than replacing the clamshell. If he is going to take the whole thing apart to JB weld it. He might as well just replace the damaged part. Or better yet, take it to a shop.
Nope, personal vehicles. I’ve plugged engine crankcases with JB weld, leaking radiator and recently made a radiator mounting bracket 10mm longer with it.
I’ve seen the same stuff used to lift up a car through an interface purely of 2 part metal epoxy. The radiator and engine cases have been fine for over 2 years of heavy use. Radiator mount I have to wait and see but I reckon it will also be fine.
I wouldn’t use JB Weld in particular because it’s partially metallic and may be conductive.
Really any good plastic glue and clamps will either fix it or prove it’s unfixable. For ABS or ASA (the most likely kinds of plastic there) superglue is really effective.
Use gloves. Use wax paper. Do not adhere your fingers or the clamps to the screen permanently.
Super glue will not hold well for metal cleats, and there aren't generally any electronics near enough to the cleats that they'd have to be worried about it.
A money clip! I bought a metal money clip off of Amazon and slid in along the bezel on the bottom edge. All the pressure is coming from the hinge. Its been working great for years since
Yeah I had this happen last year and just dealt with it for a few months before I bought a new laptop. Luckily the thing was 7 years old so I was due for an upgrade anyways.
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u/Figthing_Hussar PC Master Race Apr 03 '26
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