my damn self

Sto­ry time: Af­ter months of not be­ing able to af­ford any sort of tech shop re­pair I fi­nal­ly gath­ered enough in­for­ma­tion about this ma­chine as would al­low me to fix it my damn self. 

Hinges broke away from cheap soft plas­tic that MSI uses with met­al hinges screwed to them to the back plate of the lid/screen as­sem­bly. Tiny pieces of plas­tic every­where and no way to keep a hinge con­nect­ed short of crazy epoxy but it took a while for BOTH hinges to go … A wire be­came ex­posed be­cause I was still try­ing to use it and move it around like the lap­top it is, and then the wire cas­ing wore down it would cause burn­ing and smoke to emit from that one ex­posed wire spot. 

Every­thing else about the ma­chine was fine, just un­us­able as a fire hazard. 

NOW I’ve tak­en it apart 3 times and reap­plied some much need­ed ther­mal paste while wait­ing for con­fir­ma­tion of the wire need­ing re­plac­ing from Cana­da and the screws I’d use to re­hinge my hinges from China. 

I had to or­der spe­cif­ic sized sheet met­al drill bit and the spe­cif­ic size ma­chine screws the likes of which could only be found in a box of the same size screw at dif­fer­ent lengths, pair that with the spe­cif­ic sized ma­chine screw hex nuts for the back. 

If I used epoxy, it would be­come quite an is­sue if I ever want­ed to re­place a wire or the screen in the fu­ture should any­thing happen. 

Thanks to my G‑Unit for the Ama­zon shop­ping help for such speci­fici­ty. I’m just glad this ex­pen­sive ma­chine in back in prop­er work­ing or­der so I can get back to work.

Here’s the time lapse.
 

—blu

Flom­mist Blu is an enig­ma. A metaphor wrapped in an al­le­go­ry. ‘I am Jack’s colon. If I get can­cer, I kill Jack.’ Copy­right © 2018 mechanizzm.

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