![]() ![]() ![]() By that time also, the scroll wheel, now somewhat essential, has gone nasty sticky or otherwise cranky, which much scrubbing with alcohol or anything doesn’t seem to resolve so they get retired for that too. However, while more recent mice do last longer, I find after a couple or three years they get furred up contacts or something and double click on you randomly. However, I found them fairly easy to replace whole, desolder and resolder, never thought of trying to rebuild in situ. I would buy 3 button mice for the “spare” switch because very little actually supported them until into the 2000s. Yah, those switches only used to last like 6 months on the left button for me. ![]() Posted in laptops hacks Tagged keyboard, laptop, laptop repair Post navigation We’ve seen other useful work from before – like this power jack repair way back in 2011. It’s a simple hack, but one that goes to show one shouldn’t always take “ No User Servicable Parts Inside” as an answer. A replacement part can then be sourced, and the remaining rivet stubs can be remelted to hold the new part in place. However, if properly armed with a soldering iron, these plastic rivets can be melted to allow the backing plate and keyboard to be removed. The keyboard is riveted into the top plate assembly, along with the trackpad, which would normally necessitate their replacement as a total unit. The hack begins with removing the top case assembly from a HP Pavilion laptop. It’s not always the case however, as this ingenious hack from bears out. Assuming you’ve just suffered the latter, you can still be out of luck, as many laptops come with fancy integrated keyboards that are not designed to be removable. If you’re lucky you’ll ruin just a keyboard, and if not, your entire machine could go up in smoke. Rivet manufacturers typically list the tolerances for the weight a rivet can support on the back of the package.Spilling a drink on a laptop is a terrifying experience. Standard blind rivets work well for securing metal pieces that won’t need to support a lot of weight. Having settled on using blind rivets, the next issue comes down to size, style, and material. The rivet gun pulls the mandrel through the body, expanding it to lock the material in place between the head of the body and the newly “mushroomed” end. Types of RivetsĪll blind rivets consist of a mandrel and body. The automatic tools really help when you tend to do a lot of riveting in the course of your work. Manual tools work great when you don’t have a ton of work to do. A battery-powered tool does the entire process when you pull the trigger. With a manual rivet gun, you often have to activate the handle several times to complete the work. The more expensive battery-powered tools save your hands and automatically collect spent posts after applying the rivet. Manual rivet guns and battery-powered tools accomplish the same work. These call for either a hand riveter or one of the more recent battery-powered tools. In this article, we’re more concerned with DIY applications. We also intend to avoid any applications that require pneumatic guns or heavy-duty riveting. These get their name since you can “blindly” fasten them from one side of the material without accessing (or even seeing) the other side. For the purposes of this article, we’re going to stick with blind rivets. First Thing’s First – What is a Rivet Gun?īoth rivets and rivet guns come in a variety of flavors. ![]()
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