He didn't forget, he removed it when he said it was an issue, hot glue went over where the ribbon was if not mistaking, so unless he's a magician, I think it was by choice to leave it out
3 month ago i fixed a snapped hinge by soldering it with a wick and used some hot glue . I use that laptop everyday for background music and the hinge still is holding like its brand new. Thanks for helping us out with your knowledge sorin 🤝
Hey Sorin, in our shop where we deal with home appliances repairs and i get broken ABS plastics all the time. Happily i'm using cyanoacrylate adhesive (superglue), just put a drop between the broken pieces, then one more drop on the inside and then we sprinkle either sodium bicarbonate (the one we use on food) or cigarette ash, which is making the glue instantly bond and creates more area for the adhesion. Then, depends the space we have we repeat the steps until we are happy. Many times i take some extra steps to finish it either with some sandpaper or using the diamond scraping bits on my rotary tool! Last but not least thanks for your time an effort, but over all, the great community you've build around electronic repairs, i appreciate that you sharing all the knowledge and experiences with us for free.
When the hinge starts to get stiff take the back off, clean it with ipa dry and apply some grease. If it is still tight you can loosen the nut on the hinge slightly until it’s loose enough. I’ve often wondered if the nut had tightened up through use over time. So now I usually remove the nut and pop a bit of thread lock on to prevent that.
Well...probably for some "smart" people in chat that call these fixes a scam, they'll repair these problems for $40 dollars laptops by purchasing new case for laptops with hinges that cost them $200 in order to fix a 40 dollar laptop. They are very smart :) This guy spent literally $6 dollar in materials and fixed laptop. BTW Sorin, a little tip about plastics, there are some ABS plastics from cases that can be fused even better with hot glue if you add a bit of acetone on the plastic parts before and come fast with hot glue after acetone. But is not working with all plastics. I know this from 3d printing field. ABS plastics will melt abs with tiny amount of acetone and fuse them stronger. Advantage also is that acetone can fill micro cracks and bond them.
I have fixed the hinges in my Thinkpad X1 Tablet with this method after seeing it in your videos. Works great! I think it ist not so much the actual 'gluing' which does the trick but the fact that the hotglue fills the whole space inside the shell of the Laptop around the hinge. This way, the hinge has nowhere to go and stays in place. Thank you very much!
Sorin, you could try plastic welding with the soldering iron and the right colour cable tie. A bit tricky but stronger. Or car filler if it's really bad damage. Both work and strong!
You don't need a new top cover. The very same cover, that has a broken corner can be fixed with metal from a stapler, they are melting in the middle of the crack, and then you will put super glue and it will be stronger than before !
Personally, I always use two component glue like "poxypol". Works great. There is a tricks to make a job perfect. First - use hard paper or cardboard to form some sort of decking. Second - use transperent (polyethylene) tape to cover areas that should not stick to epoxy permanently, like hinges, wires, charging ports,circuit boards. Remove it after epoxy hardened. Third - put some oil at the bolts threads and you may stick them directly into epoxy even without corresponding nuts. Poxypol is very strong and can hold bolts and nuts very firmly. Sometimes its hard to undo bolts, so you can use soldering iron to heat it and then undo. After using poxypol I get results better than factory moldings. No returns, no complains, easy service to device. Yes its much longer job than just hot glue everything, but result is much much better and i'm sure that it will never break again.
The reason why some people think using hot glue to do a repair is wrong is because they dont understand that you dont use a hot glue gun, you need to use hot air from a rework station as it's a lot, lot higher temperature as you need the glue to melt a lot more than a hot glue gun can handle. Hot glue is flexible - other glues/resins that people try to use are not and it needs to be firm and flexible else it will snap and break whatever you repair.
Sorin does not scam people he makes the most permanent fix for the least amount for a cheap machine that was unusable, but now will last for years. Just not sure about hooking the ground to the lead on wifi. But he said the signal was high so good.
I learned the hotglue trick from you Sorin 👍🏻 And people who state that it is fake probably never fixed things themselves. I used to get annoyed by these non-fixers but these days I laugh at them and go on with what I was doing. 🤝🏻🇳🇱
I fix multiple laptops with hotglue after first time seeing you doing that. At first I also didn't think it would last for very long but all of them are fine years later. Edit: I hope you open it again and return that ribbon cable to its place. returning laptop like that would be dodgy :)
My story was the same 🙂 I'm using now the hot glue but for the wood. It has higher melting temperature, and it makes stronger bond and it is more flexible. I tested it with the simple/universal hot glue stick - and it is better/stronger.
@@Radek__ That's good to know, I never thought of using them. Do higher melting temperature cause problems if you need to open them later? With regular sticks 100 degrees is enough so there is no damage to case.
@@gorjy9610 maybe, but in the other hand - the regular stick is melted quicker and in lower temperature, right? BUT what about a state BEFORE melting point? Very often the heatsink chamber with fan is close to hinge, so it will not going to melt that glue but that bond made with regular stick become WEAK during normal laptop usage. Or during very sunny day, the laptop casy/cover can get 30-40degrees and than that glue bond become weak (not melted but very weak) I saw that you can find a stick with high melting point (200, over 200 degrees), but I didn't tested. I tested only regular one, then for wood and for metal. Regular one is weak. I can remove it easly using the flat screwdriver. The stick for metal is too hard (less flexible), but that one for wood is strong and flexible. I've read somwhere that some of types of stick for wood has a little bit rosin inside (that thing which i leaking from the tree core) I don't know. But anyway - when you hold cold stick for wood and play with it, you feel that it has good compromise between flexibility and solid state. Also higher melting point means, that you will have to heat it longer until you see liquid, but then that liquid will be close to the melting point of the plastic with you are tryging to fix/glue. So when you apply it - it will make stronger bond (mix) with the plastic. BUT if you do it with regular stick, the temerature of liquid is too low to "bite in" in plastic. Maybe I'm wrong. The thing is the stick for wood are produced by so many different manufacturers so I cannot put my word that all of them are perfect.
@@Radek__ I'll try it next time. I don't do things like that professionally anyway so even if some damage occur on next opening is easy for me to say "it must be like that" :)
Hotglue is great if you can release the tension on the hinge and bond/sandwich the two parts. Also very forgiving if you need to get back into the laptop. I have had jobs were the same laptop comes back with the original repair still intact but different hinges and also the screen side and motherboard side now damaged. With newer laptops were there is no metal hinge spine up the side of the screen and hotglue just won't cut it then it has to be epoxy. If I need to get back into it, fingers crossed I don't need to, then it costs them more for the time. Not time getting in because I find if you freeze the epoxy repair it becomes more brittle compared to the laptop plastic and can be popped apart. Freeze spray is cold enough. After getting back in you do have to spend time picking the old epoxy away before re-sealing it. Hotglue is a great first go to and Sorin is the king 🤴 of the hotglue repair 👍🏻
The problem I have experienced with hot-glue in laptops is the heat. Once I added a magnetic reed switch to enable/disable the graphic card on a MBP by using a small magnet on the back. It worked "in the lab" but once it got hot the switch got loose. The solution was superglue.
Macbooks have famously inadequate cooling solutions, so that is completely believable. I would probably use silicone sealant before CA glue. Less brittle. Polyurethane sealant for a non-brittle but *permanent* adhesive.
10:01 the better and more cleaner way to remove hot glue is not by heat, but by using IPA alcohol. Just put a lot of alcohol on the area where hot glue was applied, and wait 1minute. Then you will be able to remove it, like a sticker. It will pill off from the surface in one piece
@@Mark_C1 yeah :-) anyway - I was talking more about motherboard, less about plastic/cover. I saw few people trying to remove hot glue from motherboard (fixed sockets/ connectors/ jump-wires, etc) by apply heat. It was so hard - because melted hot glue did a mess, like a sticky pudding mess :) A lot of people don't know that better is to use IPA alcohol
21:28 this is true. I had jobs where someone used epoxy, or hard resin glue on the hinge, but under it was a small board with power switch. Later the switch stoped working and I had to cut that glue, drill it to get that board out. So many bad words I said in that time, because that glue was strong, hard as a rock. ... The good service-technician is that one, who is fixing things in the way, that in the future you will have access to that place again. But if you fix things in the way that it looks like welded, rock solid cement - then you are a lazy egoist without imagination
Personally, I always use two component glue like "poxypol". Works great. There is a tricks to make a job perfect. First - use hard paper or cardboard to form some sort of decking. Second - use transperent (polyethylene) tape to cover areas that should not stick to epoxy permanently, like hinges, wires, charging ports,circuit boards. Remove it after epoxy hardened. Third - put some oil at the bolts threads and you may stick them directly into epoxy even without corresponding nuts. Poxypol is very strong and can hold bolts and nuts very firmly. Sometimes its hard to undo bolts, so you can use soldering iron to heat it and then undo. After using poxypol I get results better than factory moldings. No returns, no complains, easy service to device. Yes its much longer job than just hot glue everything, but result is much much better and i'm sure that it will never break again.
@@Evhen_Velikiy @Євген Великий did you mean "poxipol" made in my country - Poland? Before I watch Sorin do to it with hot glue - I was using also, only epoxy glue "poxipol". But one day I made few observations. One of them was IF on that glued plastic surface is applied tension / pressure - then that hard solid glue (expoxy) will hold everything in place only for some time. When you continue to apply force/tension/ movement - then it can peels off / jump off from that plastic. Because epoxy is NOT flexible at all, and DOESN"T bite in plastic/ bond / mix with plastic. IT is on top of it. ok - it can create very strong solid structure, but only when that plastic is stable, when is not moving. Sometimes you have a well made laptop (or the older one) were the hinges or plastic sockets for nuts and surrounding area are made of thick, stiff plastic then your method with epoxy (poxipol) is perfect. But today, laptop are made in the cheap way, so the plastic is thin and very flexible. When you open the laptop lid, or write on the keyboard - everything is "dancing" moving. So that hard as rock, solid epoxy glue will jump off from that plastic in some day. That is why in today's days the better solution is hot glue. But the main issue is that you have to learn (practice) how to do it correctly. You cannot use a typical hot gun - beacue the temperature will be too low. The glue has to be in boiling state to bite in plastic, mix with it. So you have to use hot air or solder iron to increase glue temp. And when the hot glue will be cold it can "dance" "move" with the plastic. The key is flexibility. I made few experiments and hot glue is better that epoxy. Epoxy will keep the hinges on the place but with short time. the hot glue will keep it forever but only IF you keep the water or the alcohol away from that glued area ( and the heat from the heatsink as well) When I first time saw Sorin, using hot glue to fix the hinges I started to laught. But I made few experiments and I was blown away. Today I'm using only hot glue. Try to buy a hot glue stick for wood, or eventually for metal, these have higher melting temp. and are stronger (don't use that cheapest universal one - these can peel off from the surace more easly) And the last thing - never trust 100% in situations like "there wasn't no single warranty return - so it means the work was well done". -because there is a lot of people who are going to fight with you, to request another fix, for again broken hinges , but there is also a lot of people (including my colleagues) who spend money for fix laptop only once. And if the fixed issue is comeback again, then they simply throw that laptop away and buy a new one, without calling to service and complain or ask for refund or warranty fix. Believe me - some of the people must repair their stuff forever no matter how many times it fails, and some of the people want to do it only once, and then feel that it is waste of money to rapair it again, and some of people never accept any repairs.
@@Radek__ Well. Poland is great! I want to thank Poland people for your immeasurable help and assistance for Ukraine! We are appreciate it very much! But i dont think there is any relations between poxipol and Poland. :) Poxipol is a product name for two component glue and may be its name made of two word epoxy and polymer. Regular epoxy is like glass when its hardened but not poxipol, its properties more closer to usual plastic. Hot glue is great too, i know it. Especially when overheated it can do very tough bound to surface. Even tougher if you heat surface near to melt before applying hot glue. But its still too soft to hold nuts and you cant drill and tap a hole with threads for bolts or screws like you can do with poxipol.
@@Evhen_Velikiy thanks for kind words about Poland. I didn't know that poxipol has polymers, so you probably have right. You also have right about hardness, drilling, polishing the surface of dry poxipol, but the issue what I had with it, was the fact that if I apply it on a laptop plastic case, then wait to dry, then start to make a surface tension -the plastic will start to move/dance because it is very flexible and then the glue will pop up in one big piece. So the glue is very good, very strong, hard, etc, but the surface cannot be flexible or provide stretch tension. that is why I found that hinge nuts, which were repaired with epoxy in laptop case will be ripped out / ripoff soon. When I started doing it with hot glue with stick type for wood, it never comeback. I don't know. I had to do test again. maybe the key is amount of hardnener which you have to add from the second tube.
The C660, C650, C655, C665 but C50 and C55 were the worst. I fixed so many of these with epoxy steel resin. Very poor design also common with 6-8th gen HP 15 models. 😡
Regarding the adjustment of hinges, I understood from other ytbe vids. , has to be done as the screen panel can be opened with one hand only, and the base remains on the surface. Except for trial and error, is there another method ?
there are various qualities of hot glue in the market. i have used low quality ones and some best quality ones. the low quality ones always peel off or break off very soon. the high quality ones last years. i have used high quality ones on my personal laptop and it hasn't even detached a bit over 2 years. The person calling this a scam has probably used low quality ones.
05:25 a piece of dust or something like that jumps over the screen from right down corner and moves to middle. You didn't recognize and clean it. So, dirt piece is a part of the laptop now on.
I have an inquiry professor, if I may, sir. Is it possible to change out the screen of a IPad, or is it time to scrap and melt in acid bath for precious metals?
01:16 I FIXED ONE LAPTOP TODAY WITH HOT GLUE, WAS PROPER DESTROYED HINGE AND KEYBOARD BASE AND CUSTOMER DID NOT WANT TO SPEND MUCH MONEY ON IT. THE COMMENT YOU MENTIONED IS ITSELF A JOKE. LOLZ
I am looking for a little help. I have a samsung np365e5c laptop which has strange problem. The laptop is unable to wake from sleep or restart. I have to shut it down, remove the battery and start it to work. What is the problem? Someone Please explain.
Sorin, why don't you create a universal dongle for charging port and have 2 wires ready to clamp alligator clips to or even more professional have connectors directly on the power supply, that way you're hands free :) PS. great fix with hot glue.
Sorin is pranking us again That Ribbon cable and the battery will be fixed i know it fore sure He wants us to go off our minds so we can laugh together on all the comments
yo uso cianocrilato con algodon y se hace una roca y no se rompe ni despega y en algunos casos el acrilico con curado por uv que usan las mujeres para las uñas esculpidas
you forgot to place back the ribbon cable 11:10 , nice job as always.
lol it happens
He didn't forget, he removed it when he said it was an issue, hot glue went over where the ribbon was if not mistaking, so unless he's a magician, I think it was by choice to leave it out
Ya but they don't need all those USB ports anyways ;)
I learnt this technique from you Sorin, it's doing wonders. I pulled off some of the most complicated repairs with hot glue. Thanks once again.
Hello Sorin, you forgot to put back the ribbon cable after the soldering of the antenne cable.
Indeed.
Ya but they don't need all those USB ports anyways ;)
3 month ago i fixed a snapped hinge by soldering it with a wick and used some hot glue . I use that laptop everyday for background music and the hinge still is holding like its brand new. Thanks for helping us out with your knowledge sorin 🤝
Hey Sorin, in our shop where we deal with home appliances repairs and i get broken ABS plastics all the time. Happily i'm using cyanoacrylate adhesive (superglue), just put a drop between the broken pieces, then one more drop on the inside and then we sprinkle either sodium bicarbonate (the one we use on food) or cigarette ash, which is making the glue instantly bond and creates more area for the adhesion. Then, depends the space we have we repeat the steps until we are happy. Many times i take some extra steps to finish it either with some sandpaper or using the diamond scraping bits on my rotary tool!
Last but not least thanks for your time an effort, but over all, the great community you've build around electronic repairs, i appreciate that you sharing all the knowledge and experiences with us for free.
I can remember using superglue and bicarb over 20 years ago on a vga monitor it lasted for ages
i'm looking forward for the flame about the ribbon cable left unconnected dropped somewhere inside : ) Sorin, be brave!
The antenna solder trick is also very useful. I got a case of failing wifi which I can think can be solved with Sorin's technique.
5:26 something fell into the screen :S
İ saw that too. Even now, one year, later i still urge to remove that little thing from there. :))
When the hinge starts to get stiff take the back off, clean it with ipa dry and apply some grease. If it is still tight you can loosen the nut on the hinge slightly until it’s loose enough. I’ve often wondered if the nut had tightened up through use over time. So now I usually remove the nut and pop a bit of thread lock on to prevent that.
Well...probably for some "smart" people in chat that call these fixes a scam, they'll repair these problems for $40 dollars laptops by purchasing new case for laptops with hinges that cost them $200 in order to fix a 40 dollar laptop. They are very smart :)
This guy spent literally $6 dollar in materials and fixed laptop.
BTW Sorin, a little tip about plastics, there are some ABS plastics from cases that can be fused even better with hot glue if you add a bit of acetone on the plastic parts before and come fast with hot glue after acetone. But is not working with all plastics.
I know this from 3d printing field. ABS plastics will melt abs with tiny amount of acetone and fuse them stronger.
Advantage also is that acetone can fill micro cracks and bond them.
I have fixed the hinges in my Thinkpad X1 Tablet with this method after seeing it in your videos. Works great! I think it ist not so much the actual 'gluing' which does the trick but the fact that the hotglue fills the whole space inside the shell of the Laptop around the hinge. This way, the hinge has nowhere to go and stays in place. Thank you very much!
Good old Sorin, but as other mentioned, need to reopen and put the ribbon cable 😀
Sorin, you could try plastic welding with the soldering iron and the right colour cable tie. A bit tricky but stronger. Or car filler if it's really bad damage. Both work and strong!
I'm a simple man, old-school like Sorin.
If I see anything above Core 2 Duo and with separate graphics it's a nice laptop 😂😂
Thank you master , whoever call you scammer is scammer.
Another great fix Sorin, ignore anyone calling you a scammer, your hot glue repairs are inexpensive and effective.
You don't need a new top cover. The very same cover, that has a broken corner can be fixed with metal from a stapler, they are melting in the middle of the crack, and then you will put super glue and it will be stronger than before !
i watch all your videos and your not a scamer you just good in what you do
Personally, I always use two component glue like "poxypol". Works great. There is a tricks to make a job perfect. First - use hard paper or cardboard to form some sort of decking. Second - use transperent (polyethylene) tape to cover areas that should not stick to epoxy permanently, like hinges, wires, charging ports,circuit boards. Remove it after epoxy hardened. Third - put some oil at the bolts threads and you may stick them directly into epoxy even without corresponding nuts. Poxypol is very strong and can hold bolts and nuts very firmly. Sometimes its hard to undo bolts, so you can use soldering iron to heat it and then undo. After using poxypol I get results better than factory moldings. No returns, no complains, easy service to device. Yes its much longer job than just hot glue everything, but result is much much better and i'm sure that it will never break again.
watch again 21:34
@@Arvidje read my comment again.
The reason why some people think using hot glue to do a repair is wrong is because they dont understand that you dont use a hot glue gun, you need to use hot air from a rework station as it's a lot, lot higher temperature as you need the glue to melt a lot more than a hot glue gun can handle. Hot glue is flexible - other glues/resins that people try to use are not and it needs to be firm and flexible else it will snap and break whatever you repair.
Sorin does not scam people he makes the most permanent fix for the least amount for a cheap machine that was unusable, but now will last for years. Just not sure about hooking the ground to the lead on wifi. But he said the signal was high so good.
If the hot glue doesn't fix your problem, then probably you don't use enough hot glue.
love watching these type of repairs from Sorin :)
I learned the hotglue trick from you Sorin 👍🏻
And people who state that it is fake probably never fixed things themselves. I used to get annoyed by these non-fixers but these days I laugh at them and go on with what I was doing. 🤝🏻🇳🇱
Awesome idea! Thanks for the heads-up.
I fix multiple laptops with hotglue after first time seeing you doing that. At first I also didn't think it would last for very long but all of them are fine years later.
Edit: I hope you open it again and return that ribbon cable to its place. returning laptop like that would be dodgy :)
My story was the same 🙂 I'm using now the hot glue but for the wood. It has higher melting temperature, and it makes stronger bond and it is more flexible. I tested it with the simple/universal hot glue stick - and it is better/stronger.
@@Radek__ That's good to know, I never thought of using them. Do higher melting temperature cause problems if you need to open them later? With regular sticks 100 degrees is enough so there is no damage to case.
@@gorjy9610 maybe, but in the other hand - the regular stick is melted quicker and in lower temperature, right? BUT what about a state BEFORE melting point? Very often the heatsink chamber with fan is close to hinge, so it will not going to melt that glue but that bond made with regular stick become WEAK during normal laptop usage. Or during very sunny day, the laptop casy/cover can get 30-40degrees and than that glue bond become weak (not melted but very weak)
I saw that you can find a stick with high melting point (200, over 200 degrees), but I didn't tested. I tested only regular one, then for wood and for metal.
Regular one is weak. I can remove it easly using the flat screwdriver. The stick for metal is too hard (less flexible), but that one for wood is strong and flexible. I've read somwhere that some of types of stick for wood has a little bit rosin inside (that thing which i leaking from the tree core) I don't know. But anyway - when you hold cold stick for wood and play with it, you feel that it has good compromise between flexibility and solid state. Also higher melting point means, that you will have to heat it longer until you see liquid, but then that liquid will be close to the melting point of the plastic with you are tryging to fix/glue. So when you apply it - it will make stronger bond (mix) with the plastic. BUT if you do it with regular stick, the temerature of liquid is too low to "bite in" in plastic.
Maybe I'm wrong. The thing is the stick for wood are produced by so many different manufacturers so I cannot put my word that all of them are perfect.
@@Radek__ I'll try it next time. I don't do things like that professionally anyway so even if some damage occur on next opening is easy for me to say "it must be like that" :)
The hot glue is worth more than the laptop 🤣🤣🤣doggy sometimes, but Never a scammer 👍
Nice work Sorin 🙂
You can inlay fibreglass mesh into the hot glue to add strength to larger repairs. E.g. thin coat render mesh.
Pls try bond with backing soda and super glue mixture
Very solid.
Excellent 'real world' fix!
Hotglue is great if you can release the tension on the hinge and bond/sandwich the two parts.
Also very forgiving if you need to get back into the laptop.
I have had jobs were the same laptop comes back with the original repair still intact but different hinges and also the screen side and motherboard side now damaged.
With newer laptops were there is no metal hinge spine up the side of the screen and hotglue just won't cut it then it has to be epoxy.
If I need to get back into it, fingers crossed I don't need to, then it costs them more for the time.
Not time getting in because I find if you freeze the epoxy repair it becomes more brittle compared to the laptop plastic and can be popped apart. Freeze spray is cold enough.
After getting back in you do have to spend time picking the old epoxy away before re-sealing it.
Hotglue is a great first go to and Sorin is the king 🤴 of the hotglue repair 👍🏻
The problem I have experienced with hot-glue in laptops is the heat. Once I added a magnetic reed switch to enable/disable the graphic card on a MBP by using a small magnet on the back. It worked "in the lab" but once it got hot the switch got loose. The solution was superglue.
Macbooks have famously inadequate cooling solutions, so that is completely believable.
I would probably use silicone sealant before CA glue. Less brittle.
Polyurethane sealant for a non-brittle but *permanent* adhesive.
lovely jubbly. Don't you just love Toshibas, such sweeties to fix, compared to many others
good to see in the comments that i'm not the only one noticing the missing ribbon cable 😎
Excellent. But didn't you leave one flat cable nor connected?
10:01 the better and more cleaner way to remove hot glue is not by heat, but by using IPA alcohol. Just put a lot of alcohol on the area where hot glue was applied, and wait 1minute. Then you will be able to remove it, like a sticker. It will pill off from the surface in one piece
Absolutely, but sadly not so easy if the surface is hidden due to the laptop being put back together. I suppose you could dunk it in iso 🤣
@@Mark_C1 yeah :-) anyway - I was talking more about motherboard, less about plastic/cover. I saw few people trying to remove hot glue from motherboard (fixed sockets/ connectors/ jump-wires, etc) by apply heat. It was so hard - because melted hot glue did a mess, like a sticky pudding mess :) A lot of people don't know that better is to use IPA alcohol
Baking soda+ flexbond glue is best mad strong method
Hot glue hero strikes again lol. Love your dodgy Sorin. Ty you have great channel.
What do I think? You are the HOT GLUE HERO!!!
thanks, don't worry about them, we know you're correct
Did you put the ribbon cable back ?
what temperature u use on hot glue to melt it first time?
I use some paper clips and melt them to connect broken plastic parts together
Good job mate 👍
why didn't you solder the wifi cable to the connectors. was it necessary to solder them directly to the cards?
21:28 this is true. I had jobs where someone used epoxy, or hard resin glue on the hinge, but under it was a small board with power switch. Later the switch stoped working and I had to cut that glue, drill it to get that board out. So many bad words I said in that time, because that glue was strong, hard as a rock.
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The good service-technician is that one, who is fixing things in the way, that in the future you will have access to that place again. But if you fix things in the way that it looks like welded, rock solid cement - then you are a lazy egoist without imagination
Personally, I always use two component glue like "poxypol". Works great. There is a tricks to make a job perfect. First - use hard paper or cardboard to form some sort of decking. Second - use transperent (polyethylene) tape to cover areas that should not stick to epoxy permanently, like hinges, wires, charging ports,circuit boards. Remove it after epoxy hardened. Third - put some oil at the bolts threads and you may stick them directly into epoxy even without corresponding nuts. Poxypol is very strong and can hold bolts and nuts very firmly. Sometimes its hard to undo bolts, so you can use soldering iron to heat it and then undo. After using poxypol I get results better than factory moldings. No returns, no complains, easy service to device. Yes its much longer job than just hot glue everything, but result is much much better and i'm sure that it will never break again.
@@Evhen_Velikiy @Євген Великий did you mean "poxipol" made in my country - Poland?
Before I watch Sorin do to it with hot glue - I was using also, only epoxy glue "poxipol". But one day I made few observations. One of them was IF on that glued plastic surface is applied tension / pressure - then that hard solid glue (expoxy) will hold everything in place only for some time. When you continue to apply force/tension/ movement - then it can peels off / jump off from that plastic. Because epoxy is NOT flexible at all, and DOESN"T bite in plastic/ bond / mix with plastic. IT is on top of it. ok - it can create very strong solid structure, but only when that plastic is stable, when is not moving.
Sometimes you have a well made laptop (or the older one) were the hinges or plastic sockets for nuts and surrounding area are made of thick, stiff plastic then your method with epoxy (poxipol) is perfect.
But today, laptop are made in the cheap way, so the plastic is thin and very flexible. When you open the laptop lid, or write on the keyboard - everything is "dancing" moving. So that hard as rock, solid epoxy glue will jump off from that plastic in some day.
That is why in today's days the better solution is hot glue. But the main issue is that you have to learn (practice) how to do it correctly. You cannot use a typical hot gun - beacue the temperature will be too low. The glue has to be in boiling state to bite in plastic, mix with it. So you have to use hot air or solder iron to increase glue temp.
And when the hot glue will be cold it can "dance" "move" with the plastic. The key is flexibility.
I made few experiments and hot glue is better that epoxy. Epoxy will keep the hinges on the place but with short time. the hot glue will keep it forever but only IF you keep the water or the alcohol away from that glued area ( and the heat from the heatsink as well)
When I first time saw Sorin, using hot glue to fix the hinges I started to laught. But I made few experiments and I was blown away. Today I'm using only hot glue. Try to buy a hot glue stick for wood, or eventually for metal, these have higher melting temp. and are stronger (don't use that cheapest universal one - these can peel off from the surace more easly)
And the last thing - never trust 100% in situations like "there wasn't no single warranty return - so it means the work was well done". -because there is a lot of people who are going to fight with you, to request another fix, for again broken hinges , but there is also a lot of people (including my colleagues) who spend money for fix laptop only once. And if the fixed issue is comeback again, then they simply throw that laptop away and buy a new one, without calling to service and complain or ask for refund or warranty fix. Believe me - some of the people must repair their stuff forever no matter how many times it fails, and some of the people want to do it only once, and then feel that it is waste of money to rapair it again, and some of people never accept any repairs.
@@Radek__ Well. Poland is great! I want to thank Poland people for your immeasurable help and assistance for Ukraine! We are appreciate it very much! But i dont think there is any relations between poxipol and Poland. :) Poxipol is a product name for two component glue and may be its name made of two word epoxy and polymer. Regular epoxy is like glass when its hardened but not poxipol, its properties more closer to usual plastic.
Hot glue is great too, i know it. Especially when overheated it can do very tough bound to surface. Even tougher if you heat surface near to melt before applying hot glue. But its still too soft to hold nuts and you cant drill and tap a hole with threads for bolts or screws like you can do with poxipol.
@@Evhen_Velikiy thanks for kind words about Poland.
I didn't know that poxipol has polymers, so you probably have right.
You also have right about hardness, drilling, polishing the surface of dry poxipol, but the issue what I had with it, was the fact that if I apply it on a laptop plastic case, then wait to dry, then start to make a surface tension -the plastic will start to move/dance because it is very flexible and then the glue will pop up in one big piece. So the glue is very good, very strong, hard, etc, but the surface cannot be flexible or provide stretch tension.
that is why I found that hinge nuts, which were repaired with epoxy in laptop case will be ripped out / ripoff soon. When I started doing it with hot glue with stick type for wood, it never comeback.
I don't know. I had to do test again. maybe the key is amount of hardnener which you have to add from the second tube.
@@Radek__ Case is that poxypol is a two component glue, not a pure epoxy, so it's has different properties. It's more like plastic when hardened.
"That's a nice laptop!" -Sorin 2023
The C660, C650, C655, C665 but C50 and C55 were the worst. I fixed so many of these with epoxy steel resin. Very poor design also common with 6-8th gen HP 15 models. 😡
You crack me up with, "This is a nice laptop", are you kidding me? 😂
Hi guys,what kind of hotglue do u use?Thk :)
16:00sorin you forgot to connect the daughterboard ribbon cable 😂😂😂 nice job btw.
Captain Hotglue did it again ! Big smile.... Sitting and wait for the comments to come 🙂
Regarding the adjustment of hinges, I understood from other ytbe vids. , has to be done as the screen panel can be opened with one hand only, and the base remains on the surface. Except for trial and error, is there another method ?
You can now play worms with the piece of stray hot glue behind the digitizer 😁😁
you forgot to place back the ribbon cable😁
Hot glue is perfect ! Like you ! 🤣 Have a good week !
there are various qualities of hot glue in the market. i have used low quality ones and some best quality ones. the low quality ones always peel off or break off very soon. the high quality ones last years. i have used high quality ones on my personal laptop and it hasn't even detached a bit over 2 years. The person calling this a scam has probably used low quality ones.
nice job. Do you not work at the Shop anymore?
Very impressive
If it looks stupid but it works,
It is not stupid
Companies uses tons of glue to hold parts together in their products but nobody calls them scammer.
05:25 a piece of dust or something like that jumps over the screen from right down corner and moves to middle. You didn't recognize and clean it. So, dirt piece is a part of the laptop now on.
I have an inquiry professor, if I may, sir. Is it possible to change out the screen of a IPad, or is it time to scrap and melt in acid bath for precious metals?
love your hot glue repairs
Why not 2 component epoxy glue ?
I've used it many times successfully.
Hot glue is a budget friendly way to keep these low end computers going. I'm sure the owner would be happy to keep their devises going.
yesterday i repair a same laptop with a same issue .
Resume: 10 years experience with hot glue hinge repair. 💪💪
Hey sorin you forgot to replace the ribbon cable for the sub board
you forgot something at 16:02 , the riven cable.
I noticed you let the ribbon cable off
do you use the hot air + glue stick instead of a hot glue gun for any particular reason? I was just wondering
hot glue gun doesn't melt the glue to be like liquid . you can use it but the bond won't be stronger
@@Customer22374rt oh really? Interesting
01:16 I FIXED ONE LAPTOP TODAY WITH HOT GLUE, WAS PROPER DESTROYED HINGE AND KEYBOARD BASE AND CUSTOMER DID NOT WANT TO SPEND MUCH MONEY ON IT. THE COMMENT YOU MENTIONED IS ITSELF A JOKE. LOLZ
I think the wifi antenna connector base is ceramic.
That was an excellent answer to why every laptop its a nice laptop .it has electrónics😂😂😂😂
Nice & easy, the great Toshiba laptop's TOP!
theres a ribbon cable not connected, you left it lying in side and never fitted it?????
Baking soda with 1 second glue (there is even a much stronger combination but forgot the name) or hot glue ,which one is stronger
Fix a few busted computers with hot glue 👍Even used superglue and soda for holes.
Sorin you could've soldered the wifi cables back to their remaining pins
There are still laptops with a HD inside ??
Sorin you forgot to connect the flat cable before closing the laptop.
Nice
hot glue dont last. i use melted plastic from scrap laptop and it bonds and last better to attach the broken corner
Perfect a la hot glue
We can rebuild this, we have the technology
I am looking for a little help. I have a samsung np365e5c laptop which has strange problem.
The laptop is unable to wake from sleep or restart. I have to shut it down, remove the battery and start it to work.
What is the problem? Someone Please explain.
remove the battery and the power.and put the power button for 60 sec.after give the power and after put the battery .reset bios
Your not a scammer
Sorin, why don't you create a universal dongle for charging port and have 2 wires ready to clamp alligator clips to or even more professional have connectors directly on the power supply, that way you're hands free :) PS. great fix with hot glue.
I use a universal power supply I have about 20 connectors
Mulțumim !
UV resin is better than hot glue but yeah more expensive
You forgot put back flat cable!
you miss the flat cable, you close the laptop without the flat cable near de power buton.
Sorin is pranking us again
That Ribbon cable and the battery will be fixed i know it fore sure
He wants us to go off our minds so we can laugh together on all the comments
yo uso cianocrilato con algodon y se hace una roca y no se rompe ni despega y en algunos casos el acrilico con curado por uv que usan las mujeres para las uñas esculpidas
Ribbon cable not placed back ;)
WELL ........
I also think hot glue is not strong enough to hold the properly for long time
EPOXY ADHASIVE is strong enough
you forgot big flat cable ?
just watched again this video and gone to write that and saw to i written that 4 months ago when you been working on it haha :D
Sorinh you left that small cable off