Re: PowerBook G4 case problem

In article <181020081908247569%dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dave Balderstone <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <DrJamesSidbury-D0591F.20260818102008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
James Sidbury <DrJamesSidbury@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a 17" PB G4 that I promised to give to my supervisor (he did
afterall get a MBP to replace it). Anyhow the plastic surrounding the
optical drive has come loose at the top and is "drooping" down and
blocking the opening for discs. I've considered quick dry epoxy or
superglue but I thought it would probably be a better option to check
and see if anyone had an alternate suggestion or at least a confirmation
of that my original choice is reasonable.

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Do you mean the grey plastic, kind hard, but not really?

yes.

Honestly, I'd probably take a #11 Xacto blade and carefully cut it away
before I'd risk either epoxy or CA (cyanoacrylate) glue, but you can
see the problem and I can't. (Can you post a pic somewhere to give a
better idea of the problem?)


I thought about that as a possibility. The computer is at my office, so
I'll post one to my Web site and post a link here on Monday for anyone
that's interested in advising me on the problem.

If you do go the glue route, I strongly suggest rigging the orientation
of the laptop with an eye to where the stuff is going to flow if you
get it wrong (in other words, not into the drive). Also consider how
you're going to clamp the plastic into place (ie: tweezers with a small
rubber band around them?).

I'd considered the flow problem but was seriously contemplating taking
an old useless CD and gluing wood or something on it (the day before the
actual operation) and then removing the battery and pushing the disk
partway into the drive and letting the plastic rest on the wood and
using my hands as a clamp. I just got some epoxy that "dries" in 5
minutes and superglue is supposed to dry in even less time.

I do woodworking, so I'm trying to think down to micro from a macro
scale. Also important is to do a dry run, taking into account the open
time of the glue you're using. There are CA glues that are more of a
gel that will give you a 30 - 60 second open time.

Have all the tools you need at hand. Can you get the tweezers into
place before the CA glue sets up? And so on...

It's a simpler problem than I'm making it out to be, but I'd hate to
read a post from you tomorrow asking how to get epoxy out of an optical
drive.


Good point and I'd rather be surprised by how easy it turned out to be
than bemoaning the fact that it was a much more complicated process than
I had originally thought.

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