You know, I just wanted to fuck with my wifi antennas. Is that too much to ask, Dell? That if I fiddle with my antennas and have to take apart the lcd/hinge to get at them, that it should be able to go back together?! I’ve heard that same complaint from a number of other hardware hackers about the Vostro 1000, so it’s not just me being fuck-tarded and breaking my stuff due to my sheer ability of stupid. ( it’s a $400 business laptop from Dell Dell Vostro specs and review  )

Here is my solution for the damn hinges not working anymore … it is better then having to hold the screen up with one hand and <insert computer related task> with the other.

Vostro 1000

All I used to fix this was ::

+ some trimmings from a roll of velcro wire wrap

+ some super glue

I added two small strips to the side of LCD where the rubber bits should have been. ( if I hadn’t ripped them off ) I then added two long strips along the side of the keyboard for a large selection of screen angles. To finish, I cut two strips of the same length, about 8 or 9 inches long, then connected one end of the velcro strips to the velcro bits on each side of the screen. The other end of the strips get velcroed to a specified angle onto the adjustment strips.

vostro 1000

vostro 1000

- satat

Tags: crap, crappy, ghetto, hack, hinge, hinges, laptop, satat, straps, velcro, vostro 1000

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