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The rust fucked up a lot of things.
One of the screws is just dead, and the weird thing is that all the screws I put back in are defacto greased with car grease made for tires.
And even with that there was this issue.
happened ?I'm gonna have to try and restore this shit with cyanaocrylate and baking powder.
The only positive thing is that the rusted USB ports are modular and I just have to order the module.
baking soda
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@mangeurdenuage how do you prepare it? my attempts at using it as a hardener weren't working.
>how do you prepare it?
Apply backing soda, then apply the cyanaocrylate, it gets hard in 10 seconds as you can see at second 21, and as you can also observe at second 25 the back soda who didn't go any is unchanged.
The main issue in this is to be able to break the surface tension so that it soaks directly the powder instead of running off of it as you can see in the beginning.
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thanks for the video!
seeing this maybe my cyanoacrylate wasn't runny enough, maybe it was too old. maybe i should just get some disposable syringes with needles the next time so i can inject it right into the baking soda. that should work better than my last attempt, especially regarding surface tension.
where/how do you apply the baking soda if you want to glue something with it, like the loose nut you have on that laptop?
>where/how do you apply the baking soda if you want to glue something with it, like the loose nut you have on that laptop?
I entirely depends on how the thing is broken.
Apply the best you can, sometimes you have to create a whole mount with baking soda for the screw to be at the correct place.
A recommendation is to put grease on the screw and then screw it in the nut, without passing on the other side, when you'll put the nut back into it's place if you added to much of cyanoacrylate it won't go in the thread of the nut since you added the screw plus the grease to avoid the fluid to come back up.
@mangeurdenuage
> Apply the best you can, sometimes you have to create a whole mount with baking soda for the screw to be at the correct place.
i'll try that the next time, maybe i was just too hesitant. can vacuum of remainders anyway.
> A recommendation is to put grease on the screw and then screw it in the nut, without passing on the other side, when you'll put the nut back into it's place if you added to much of cyanoacrylate it won't go in the thread of the nut since you added the screw plus the grease to avoid the fluid to come back up.
that's clever! :)
@mangeurdenuage i don't even own wd40 currently as it's shitty except for the thing it was designed for, water displacement :) for oiling stuff i usually use ballistol (which is fine for most stuff, but alcalic, so not for everything). for grease i have a tin of ball bearing grease, albeit a bit smaller than yours ;)
I started with the easiest part which is a hole that seems to made by some corrosion.
I added some backing soda into it and then added the cyanoacrylate.
But before that, since there is a hole with a nut above, I used cotton bud drenched with isopropyl alcohol so that if the cyanoacrylate were to be in contact with the bud it wouldn't be absorbed and spread inside the nut hole.
Now for the 11 hardest parts
> I started with the easiest part which is a hole that seems to made by some corrosion.
I added some backing soda into it and then added the cyanoacrylate.
But before that, since there is a hole with a nut above, I used cotton bud drenched with isopropyl alcohol so that if the cyanoacrylate were to be in contact with the bud it wouldn't be absorbed and spread inside the nut hole.
i really should start a notebook/wiki/etc. with such hardware repair and other tips. often i can remember some parts like "baking soda and cyanoacrylate" but not the finer points :)
> Now for the 11 hardest parts
i think you have enough tricks up your sleeve to manage those! ;)
>i think you have enough tricks up your sleeve to manage those
I'm not that smart sadly.
Anyway here's another example.
The issue here is that I don't have the cover that separated, it's lost.
I have some but I don't have enough.
So again I used a cotton swab. But this time I didn't soak it because if I did the baking soda would have absorbed the solution in the cotton too.
Thus it will inevitable stick to the cyanoacrylate and baking soda, but it's not an issue in this case since it's the screw that is inserted in this.
So after putting the cotton, I added baking soda on top and then applied the cyanoacrylate.
After that I drilled a hole with the correct drill size then used a file to flatten the thing.
I just messed up a bit the centering but that's fixable.
Tbh it's maybe easier to do this than to try and put back the plastic plate.
@mangeurdenuage hey you managed to repair the thing with baking soda, cyanoacrylate and cotton swabs. i'd call that tricks up your sleeve ;)
Note: I recommend to avoid using greases like wd40 for what I explained.
Thus I recommend using picture related or any similar.
As long as the viscosity isn't fluid.