Very interesting hinge assemblies. I really thought that new hinges were in order. Too bad that has to go back to the customer, what that laptop needs is a new loving home. 😹
There are many varying opinions to refurbishing old hinges. I tend to go the lubrication route and then use threadlocker compound to make sure the hinge screws won't come loose again, but other arguments can be made that it can overtighten the hinges and rip the threads out especially if you were to take it apart again before the compound loses its grip. As for Acer laptops, that is what I find as well. Some of them after a refurbishment job turn out to be genuinely useful and not bad for the money, while others may be permanently stuck with a low end Pentium or Celeron and will always be a potato.
Hi Graham! I have an older HP G62 which had an i3 370M CPU and the hinge mounts were totally busted up by the previous owner, I got it for $20. I then bought another HP G62 (for the case/hinges) which is in great condition with the same processor for $25 CAD. I also bought an CPU to upgrade my laptop to a i5 540M for $17 on eBay which also has a better Video GPU which is the basic Intel HD Graphics on the die that is a little better than the i3 370M variant which has the express 965 GPU chip. I also had a 500GB SSD sitting around which only runs at SATA-II speeds on this laptop but is far superior to a SATA-II platter drive. So now I have a more or less a mint HP G62 with a chassis/case that is in great condition, and a faster CPU (about 15-18% faster and a SSD. I also just got a brand new 5 hour battery brand new on Amazon for $22 CAD. So for about $120 I got a fairly decent Laptop (not good for gaming beyond the Project 64 Emulator or older DOS games. But intended on just using it for basic office stuff and internet/UA-cam etc. I got the idea from your chassis replacement videos, But it took some time to get the best possible deal on used parts. Thanks for the Inspiration. Cheers!
For cleaning i also use car shampoo with wax. It comes in bottles and i prepare it myself in a spray device used from window cleaning solution. Usually 3-5 bottle caps at around 700-1000 ml water. You will need a liquid shampoo - do not use ones that have honey texture. Using this products will also leave a very nice plastic shine because of the wax and will also protect it for few months 😁
once did a really janky fix for a friend the plastics on the bottom had all snapped so the hinge wouldnt have anything to screw through so i screwed through and used tiny nuts and bolts through the bottom plastic and put rubber on the bottom and it worked great for a few years
i got two of this same model, 8th gen i5 and very good trackpad, but i did not buy the replacement back, just used longer screws with the nut on the other side
Last year I disassembled and repaired / upgraded almost the same laptop (from the same series but i7 7700HQ with Nvidia 1060) and thank The Lord those screws were still there in the hinge. Great repair and to be honest... Not a bad laptop as you said. Thanks for all your explanation how you repair laptops etc. You learn something new every time and watching it works hypnotizing haha. Greats!
If you would make a ASMR Channel with all the cleaning bits fully uploaded it would probably do great, it's honestly so relaxing. I wish they weren't sped up most of the time.
I actually recorded like, 10 videos to do exactly that, but I never got around to uploading them. I'll take another swing at it soon. Need to make an OBS profile for it so I can upload them directly off the recording rig with zero need to edit/process.
@@Adamant_IT Yes, do it like that and add captions Anyway your videos are all wonderful without "ASMR" since British accent are the best english accent
Lol, I had afeeling that when you snapped the old broken bezel off at the beginning saying, "Don't need that got a new one of those" you'd find the new one didn't fit or something. Of course the old one was already useless but just felt like you tempted fate there.
Let us know if the costumer got the ssd upgrade. seems trivial but I like these small upgrades you put in.. Big quality of life improvements for little effort are very satisfying.
Yea I always do. This laptop was a customer's spare (they'd replaced it due to the hinge damage) so they didn't want to spend more on an SSD, they just wanted it to work. But I can see it getting done at some point in the future - this device has plenty of mileage left in it.
The best cleaner I've ever used is my own mix of tap water (or deionised water), homebrew ethanol and a tiny amount of washing up liquid mixed in (a few drops, not much). It's much better than most glass cleaner formulations and doesn't leave any streaks. The ethanol has to be around around 40-55% to work the best. Best of all, it's cheap as chips. No need to ever buy "professional" cleaners ever again.
Can any one help . I can not start windows with any usb drives plugged in . I Can not get in bios . Even the bios message don’t show . I have to unplug them , start window then plug them back in . I ask 4 pc repair shop they don’t no how to fix it .
I wonder why no manual tells the laptop user to check for loose screws recently. Ever since I pick up every laptop in our shop every month, and tighten the screws, hinge problems are gone here.
I was wondering if it was going to be economically viable to repair when I first saw it. I’m now of a thought that this would have been cheaper than upgrading the RAM or hard disk. I'm presuming your client was aware of the ding in the top, that they were after better not perfect? I know you’re far too professional not to mention it and discuss the pros and cons with your client. I’m guessing this has been in a tough working environment and not sitting safely on a side in a little old lady's bungalow. I used to set up a photography studio at the charity I worked for, nothing professional but it used to raise money for them. As I'm clumsy due to my disabilities I bought an Acer Aspire to work tethered. I was liable to drop it which I did several times and I didn’t want to go dropping my decent laptop. It survived about 5 or 6 years of very rough treatment only recently dying, I then proceeded to sell it off for parts including 8 Gb DDR3L ram. I'm pretty sure I got almost as much for the parts as I paid for it originally. I wouldn’t dream of trying to edit images on it, but for most non gamers there’s value this type of machine.
Repairs like this usually come in at £70-100 including my labour. So cost effective depends on the spec of the laptop. This one was worth doing I think. Sometimes people will pay to fix a cheaper laptop though, because £80 is still a lot less than the cost of a new laptop, or they don't want the trouble of switching to a new laptop. I usually steer people away from repair if the laptop is a real potato, it's not pleasant to have a customer stuck in the sunken-cost fallacy, you just feel like you're ripping them off.
@@Adamant_IT Hello and thank you for the detailed reply. I was thinking along the same lines, but some people don't want the hassle as you say, sometimes its sentimental. Although, other times it can feel like repairing Triggers broom!
I replaced the whole screen on a Acer aspire once it had a pentium 4 inside it it was that old. Getting the plastic off the sides of the screen was the worst part once done and clicked on to new one it was easy to install it. But one hinge was also broken luckily eBay was my answer with people selling parts I hate today's laptop design where they no longer have the door to the HDD/SSD or ram so you can't upgrade it with ease. They don't want you too and want you to buy a new one which for me is just causing more e-waste over time
I see no reason why not. I don't think WD40 will help them though, as it'll run off. Possibly a dry lube like silicone spray, or even graphite powder. I've not really tested this though, I usually just brush them down and refit. A lot of jobs like this involve replacing the hinges anyway.
I've had success with some really thin oil...Singer sewing machine oil is what I've used before with a really notchy hinge. Had the nut to allow slackening as well which helped.
My intel i3 10th gen laptop, which I bought last year, have both hinges broken, so do I need to by Bezel and back panel or hinges too? because metal hinges are totally fine, the plastic screws were broken, and please suggest where I could buy these items.
Usually just the "Top lid" (back of the screen, but top of the laptop when closed) is the only critical part, assuming that's where it's broken from anyway. I get parts from eBay, you can also usually find everything on Aliexpress if you don't mind waiting for delivery from China.
@@Adamant_IT I checked on both websites, ebay is unavailable, ali-express has the parts at low costs, but my Indian govt has applied very high duty taxes so the delivery cost is 600% of the product, total pain
It’s strange to see how Acer has deigned their laptops to look like it’s lost in time with the same chassis design for many years 😜😂😉. Cheapout!!! An SSD to any laptop is a MASSIVE UPGRADE to performance …… a little more ram will definitely help with multi-tab browsing or multitasking 😇👍
hello mate are u in uk i wanted to see how much roughly it costs me if i send you my kids laptop which had dark picture ,she used to use hdmi to tv so i promised her to repair i bought new lcd but no fix now i dont even get hdmi picture either .
It's a love-hate relationship for me. Routine stuff like this pays the bills, but at the same time I hate the fact that it's just an inevitable failure on most modern cheap/mid range laptops - it's not acceptable from a consumer perspective.
I was recording this same job with a HP today, and I remarked along the lines of; "I've never been a fan of the phrase 'built-in obsolescence', but even if they're not built to fail, they're definitely not built to last." It's frustrating. Malpractice or gross negligence, take your pick.
@23:11 You're a great technician and I respect what you do, but I'd never do what you just did here. I doubt that you used 100.0% alcohol there, and the circuit board has power, doesn't it?
I use 99% iso, but I'm fairly confident you could drop all the way down to like, 70% rubbing alcohol and not have any issues. The water content of cleaning agents will be deionised, which reduces conductivity to the point of insignificance, and also removes the contaminants that will leave residue. I actually put this to the test a few years ago where I stuck bench power supply probes in a tray of alcohol, the glass-cleaner I use, and tap water. The alcohol, but more surprisingly the water-based glass cleaner, were both functionally non-conductive at low voltage (30v). As a control test, the tap water was passing current. Don't know that I'd trust them for high-voltage stuff, but there's no high voltage in a laptop anyway.
@@Adamant_IT I'd like to know more about deionized water being used, I know it exists but never thought manufacturers would care enough to use that. Nice to see that you tested it, in that case you're absolutely right. One thing I don't get though, is why isopropyl alcohol leaves so much residue. I've seen it before and it just baffles me. What is in that stuff? Why can't someone sell us an alcohol cleaner that actually 100% evaporates? In labs they use, among other solvents, demineralized water and nitrogen gas to clean glassware. I'm not aware of anything else that leaves no trace at all.
Yea I'm not sure what the answer is to that one. Aside from leaving tide marks, I find alcohol just isn't actually very good at cleaning anyway. It's more suited as a mild solvent for sticky stuff, flux residue, etc...
@@TheSpotify95 In this case when it's a spare laptop, you could probably find one for free and put it in. I fix laptops from time to time, and I have a small stack of SSDs in stock always, from 60GB to 250GB, M.2 and SATA.
Why people don't clean there laptops makes no sense what so ever. If I was having something serviced I'd at least try to make it look like it wasn't in the trash.
Very nice job Graham! I love it when older stuff gets a second chance! Regards Nico.
Thanks!
I usually fix the broken hinge screws on the old cover and loosen the hinge but it's nice to see the whole cover replacement. Love your videos ❤️
Very interesting hinge assemblies. I really thought that new hinges were in order. Too bad that has to go back to the customer, what that laptop needs is a new loving home. 😹
There are many varying opinions to refurbishing old hinges. I tend to go the lubrication route and then use threadlocker compound to make sure the hinge screws won't come loose again, but other arguments can be made that it can overtighten the hinges and rip the threads out especially if you were to take it apart again before the compound loses its grip.
As for Acer laptops, that is what I find as well. Some of them after a refurbishment job turn out to be genuinely useful and not bad for the money, while others may be permanently stuck with a low end Pentium or Celeron and will always be a potato.
Hi Graham! I have an older HP G62 which had an i3 370M CPU and the hinge mounts were totally busted up by the previous owner, I got it for $20. I then bought another HP G62 (for the case/hinges) which is in great condition with the same processor for $25 CAD. I also bought an CPU to upgrade my laptop to a i5 540M for $17 on eBay which also has a better Video GPU which is the basic Intel HD Graphics on the die that is a little better than the i3 370M variant which has the express 965 GPU chip. I also had a 500GB SSD sitting around which only runs at SATA-II speeds on this laptop but is far superior to a SATA-II platter drive. So now I have a more or less a mint HP G62 with a chassis/case that is in great condition, and a faster CPU (about 15-18% faster and a SSD. I also just got a brand new 5 hour battery brand new on Amazon for $22 CAD. So for about $120 I got a fairly decent Laptop (not good for gaming beyond the Project 64 Emulator or older DOS games. But intended on just using it for basic office stuff and internet/UA-cam etc. I got the idea from your chassis replacement videos, But it took some time to get the best possible deal on used parts. Thanks for the Inspiration. Cheers!
Great video, thanks so much, you saved my bacon with your detailed and clear explanations.
Thank you - I really enjoy watching you fix stuff - amazing! - that customer will be very happy I'm sure.
love the "oh we don't need that bit" yeet
For cleaning i also use car shampoo with wax. It comes in bottles and i prepare it myself in a spray device used from window cleaning solution. Usually 3-5 bottle caps at around 700-1000 ml water. You will need a liquid shampoo - do not use ones that have honey texture. Using this products will also leave a very nice plastic shine because of the wax and will also protect it for few months 😁
once did a really janky fix for a friend the plastics on the bottom had all snapped so the hinge wouldnt have anything to screw through so i screwed through and used tiny nuts and bolts through the bottom plastic and put rubber on the bottom and it worked great for a few years
Exellent job bud,well done
i got two of this same model, 8th gen i5 and very good trackpad, but i did not buy the replacement back, just used longer screws with the nut on the other side
Last year I disassembled and repaired / upgraded almost the same laptop (from the same series but i7 7700HQ with Nvidia 1060) and thank The Lord those screws were still there in the hinge.
Great repair and to be honest... Not a bad laptop as you said. Thanks for all your explanation how you repair laptops etc. You learn something new every time and watching it works hypnotizing haha.
Greats!
Good insight in to hinge replacement. Excellent vid as always, cheers.
That thing was being held just by HOPES and DREAMS. I am amazed.
If you would make a ASMR Channel with all the cleaning bits fully uploaded it would probably do great, it's honestly so relaxing. I wish they weren't sped up most of the time.
I actually recorded like, 10 videos to do exactly that, but I never got around to uploading them. I'll take another swing at it soon. Need to make an OBS profile for it so I can upload them directly off the recording rig with zero need to edit/process.
@@Adamant_IT Awesome!
@@Adamant_IT Yes, do it like that and add captions
Anyway your videos are all wonderful without "ASMR" since British accent are the best english accent
Did not expect a video today. Thank you!
"Do we have any battery power... naw, that was too much to ask for "... lol
It's really rewarding when you can take what looks like junk and turn it back into stylish. nice. 🙂
Lol, I had afeeling that when you snapped the old broken bezel off at the beginning saying, "Don't need that got a new one of those" you'd find the new one didn't fit or something. Of course the old one was already useless but just felt like you tempted fate there.
What do you mean “the bottom right corner isn’t important “. ?
Of course it’s important, that’s where the clock is ;)
Let us know if the costumer got the ssd upgrade. seems trivial but I like these small upgrades you put in.. Big quality of life improvements for little effort are very satisfying.
Acer's got some hinge problems lately , even latest swift models in fact😅😅
Luckily my old 2016 Acer E5-475G still opens up fine ❤️❤️
Does anyone know the specification of the 3 big screws per hinge??? tried googling them cant find it
Great video; instructive as always. I trust a RAM + SSD upgrade is in the offing?
Yea I always do. This laptop was a customer's spare (they'd replaced it due to the hinge damage) so they didn't want to spend more on an SSD, they just wanted it to work. But I can see it getting done at some point in the future - this device has plenty of mileage left in it.
Nice job keeps it out of landfill 😁 what keyboard is that you use?
It's a Royal Kludge RK100 👍
Do you have model of you cordless electric screwdriver? Do you like it so far?
"Long-screwing" will possibly get you a letter from Rossman.
where do u find the hinge screws for this acer i need one
An Aspire is a jolly good fella - if equipped with an external display, keyboard & mouse.
The best cleaner I've ever used is my own mix of tap water (or deionised water), homebrew ethanol and a tiny amount of washing up liquid mixed in (a few drops, not much).
It's much better than most glass cleaner formulations and doesn't leave any streaks. The ethanol has to be around around 40-55% to work the best. Best of all, it's cheap as chips. No need to ever buy "professional" cleaners ever again.
This is why you shouldn't open the lid in one of the sides. You should always open it in the middle, so both the hinges get the same amount of stress.
My Toshiba Satellite hinges are in the process of failing - I'm hoping you make that video repair.
where can i find a display for that model
1st world problem - long screw damage.✌
Wow u clean the fan
Can any one help . I can not start windows with any usb drives plugged in . I Can not get in bios . Even the bios message don’t show . I have to unplug them , start window then plug them back in . I ask 4 pc repair shop they don’t no how to fix it .
I wonder why no manual tells the laptop user to check for loose screws recently. Ever since I pick up every laptop in our shop every month, and tighten the screws, hinge problems are gone here.
Where should I buy the hinges from
And how will I know the correct one
I was wondering if it was going to be economically viable to repair when I first saw it. I’m now of a thought that this would have been cheaper than upgrading the RAM or hard disk. I'm presuming your client was aware of the ding in the top, that they were after better not perfect? I know you’re far too professional not to mention it and discuss the pros and cons with your client. I’m guessing this has been in a tough working environment and not sitting safely on a side in a little old lady's bungalow.
I used to set up a photography studio at the charity I worked for, nothing professional but it used to raise money for them. As I'm clumsy due to my disabilities I bought an Acer Aspire to work tethered. I was liable to drop it which I did several times and I didn’t want to go dropping my decent laptop. It survived about 5 or 6 years of very rough treatment only recently dying, I then proceeded to sell it off for parts including 8 Gb DDR3L ram. I'm pretty sure I got almost as much for the parts as I paid for it originally. I wouldn’t dream of trying to edit images on it, but for most non gamers there’s value this type of machine.
“Stiff with age”
“Long screw”
What am I watching??
Hello Adam. Was this a cost effective repair? Regards Mark
Repairs like this usually come in at £70-100 including my labour. So cost effective depends on the spec of the laptop. This one was worth doing I think. Sometimes people will pay to fix a cheaper laptop though, because £80 is still a lot less than the cost of a new laptop, or they don't want the trouble of switching to a new laptop.
I usually steer people away from repair if the laptop is a real potato, it's not pleasant to have a customer stuck in the sunken-cost fallacy, you just feel like you're ripping them off.
@@Adamant_IT Hello and thank you for the detailed reply. I was thinking along the same lines, but some people don't want the hassle as you say, sometimes its sentimental. Although, other times it can feel like repairing Triggers broom!
That must be a sentimental laptop, otherwise, junk that thing!
I replaced the whole screen on a Acer aspire once it had a pentium 4 inside it it was that old. Getting the plastic off the sides of the screen was the worst part once done and clicked on to new one it was easy to install it. But one hinge was also broken luckily eBay was my answer with people selling parts
I hate today's laptop design where they no longer have the door to the HDD/SSD or ram so you can't upgrade it with ease. They don't want you too and want you to buy a new one which for me is just causing more e-waste over time
That poor laptop is abused on the daily by the looks of things.
Is it safe to use lubricant or WD40 on display hinge nuts?
I see no reason why not. I don't think WD40 will help them though, as it'll run off. Possibly a dry lube like silicone spray, or even graphite powder. I've not really tested this though, I usually just brush them down and refit. A lot of jobs like this involve replacing the hinges anyway.
Never use WD40 as a lubricant. It attracts dust/dirt and will just gum up hinges etc.
I've had success with some really thin oil...Singer sewing machine oil is what I've used before with a really notchy hinge. Had the nut to allow slackening as well which helped.
My intel i3 10th gen laptop, which I bought last year, have both hinges broken, so do I need to by Bezel and back panel or hinges too? because metal hinges are totally fine, the plastic screws were broken, and please suggest where I could buy these items.
Usually just the "Top lid" (back of the screen, but top of the laptop when closed) is the only critical part, assuming that's where it's broken from anyway. I get parts from eBay, you can also usually find everything on Aliexpress if you don't mind waiting for delivery from China.
@@Adamant_IT Thanks
@@Adamant_IT I checked on both websites, ebay is unavailable, ali-express has the parts at low costs, but my Indian govt has applied very high duty taxes so the delivery cost is 600% of the product, total pain
also there's an M.2 ssd slot in the corner.
I don't know how on earth you keep all those spare screws straight lol
It will break again once the owner gets the hands on.
It’s strange to see how Acer has deigned their laptops to look like it’s lost in time with the same chassis design for many years 😜😂😉. Cheapout!!! An SSD to any laptop is a MASSIVE UPGRADE to performance …… a little more ram will definitely help with multi-tab browsing or multitasking 😇👍
hello mate are u in uk
i wanted to see how much roughly it costs me if i send you my kids laptop which had dark picture ,she used to use hdmi to tv so i promised her to repair i bought new lcd but no fix now i dont even get hdmi picture either .
:( aufhhh today i have also to fix one of these :(
I got a Acer inspire 5742z 4501 laptop from 2011 with 2 broken hinges not as bad that one it boota screw ok
Same old problem... Wonder if they will someday prevent this. Tired of repairing this constantly... Good job
It's a love-hate relationship for me. Routine stuff like this pays the bills, but at the same time I hate the fact that it's just an inevitable failure on most modern cheap/mid range laptops - it's not acceptable from a consumer perspective.
@@Adamant_IT exactly! It pays the bills but it is not acceptable. Specially when it is a high value laptop for example! All the best for you
I destroyed an iphone display by spraying directly isopropilic alcohol and was not a low so i will always spray on the cloth from now on 😬
Time to go aliexpress or ebay and buy a bigger set of flat head screws.
I call it dimpleing
FYI, This one is bad by design, Send this to rma, all fixed under warranty, 20 times, all with broken screwholes on lcd cover
I was recording this same job with a HP today, and I remarked along the lines of; "I've never been a fan of the phrase 'built-in obsolescence', but even if they're not built to fail, they're definitely not built to last."
It's frustrating. Malpractice or gross negligence, take your pick.
@23:11 You're a great technician and I respect what you do, but I'd never do what you just did here. I doubt that you used 100.0% alcohol there, and the circuit board has power, doesn't it?
I use 99% iso, but I'm fairly confident you could drop all the way down to like, 70% rubbing alcohol and not have any issues. The water content of cleaning agents will be deionised, which reduces conductivity to the point of insignificance, and also removes the contaminants that will leave residue.
I actually put this to the test a few years ago where I stuck bench power supply probes in a tray of alcohol, the glass-cleaner I use, and tap water. The alcohol, but more surprisingly the water-based glass cleaner, were both functionally non-conductive at low voltage (30v). As a control test, the tap water was passing current.
Don't know that I'd trust them for high-voltage stuff, but there's no high voltage in a laptop anyway.
@@Adamant_IT I'd like to know more about deionized water being used, I know it exists but never thought manufacturers would care enough to use that. Nice to see that you tested it, in that case you're absolutely right. One thing I don't get though, is why isopropyl alcohol leaves so much residue. I've seen it before and it just baffles me. What is in that stuff? Why can't someone sell us an alcohol cleaner that actually 100% evaporates? In labs they use, among other solvents, demineralized water and nitrogen gas to clean glassware. I'm not aware of anything else that leaves no trace at all.
Yea I'm not sure what the answer is to that one. Aside from leaving tide marks, I find alcohol just isn't actually very good at cleaning anyway. It's more suited as a mild solvent for sticky stuff, flux residue, etc...
I mean, I thought I was bit unkind to my laptop - but this one??
offer NVME SSD upgrade!
@@TheSpotify95 In this case when it's a spare laptop, you could probably find one for free and put it in. I fix laptops from time to time, and I have a small stack of SSDs in stock always, from 60GB to 250GB, M.2 and SATA.
Notorious design flaw from Acer. We've had 3 of these with exactly the same issue. Not fit for purpose. Never buyin Acer again.
Acer isn’t worth saving in my opinion I have experienced one
Yuk - that thing is a biohazard.
The price you pay for the slimmest display at the cheapest price
I buy from eBay, so whatever the going rate is there.
WD40 is better for tape glue residue removal
label remover is even better
Alot of acer laptop hinges are just junk.
Why people don't clean there laptops makes no sense what so ever. If I was having something serviced I'd at least try to make it look like it wasn't in the trash.
Stay away from Acers. Poor design and build quality. These hinge issues crop up too regularly
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1st nice video bro keep it coming fixing laptops