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thewayneCompletely SFW. Honestly! Would I lie to you, baby? :-)
And cut just to mess with people. Heh.
I picked up my laptop just now and a screw was left behind on the table! It's a plastic-bodied Asus ROG, so it flexes a bit, and clearly the screw had worked itself loose over the years. No problem, pick up my lovely iFixit toolkit ($25), pop in the Philips head, back in it goes.
Except there was another screw missing! It might be in my laptop bag, I'll do a deeper search tomorrow. Otherwise, it's lost and I'm not going to worry too much about it. I know the screw that I found was a corner screw and one was, indeed, missing, and that's where it went.
But here's the piece of advice: I went around and tightened every single screw, and pretty much every single screw moved at least a quarter turn! A couple moved almost a half turn! I wasn't bearing down and putting as much force as possible on them, this is just how much gave me a snug fit!
I briefly considered a dab of Loctite, but that's overkill. If I ever needed to do a major overhaul on my laptop, that's a possibility, but I just needed to snug up the screws a bit.
So there you have it. Do a little preventative maintenance, and you might avoid losing a screw like I apparently have. Do a little screwing and snug 'em up!
And cut just to mess with people. Heh.
I picked up my laptop just now and a screw was left behind on the table! It's a plastic-bodied Asus ROG, so it flexes a bit, and clearly the screw had worked itself loose over the years. No problem, pick up my lovely iFixit toolkit ($25), pop in the Philips head, back in it goes.
Except there was another screw missing! It might be in my laptop bag, I'll do a deeper search tomorrow. Otherwise, it's lost and I'm not going to worry too much about it. I know the screw that I found was a corner screw and one was, indeed, missing, and that's where it went.
But here's the piece of advice: I went around and tightened every single screw, and pretty much every single screw moved at least a quarter turn! A couple moved almost a half turn! I wasn't bearing down and putting as much force as possible on them, this is just how much gave me a snug fit!
I briefly considered a dab of Loctite, but that's overkill. If I ever needed to do a major overhaul on my laptop, that's a possibility, but I just needed to snug up the screws a bit.
So there you have it. Do a little preventative maintenance, and you might avoid losing a screw like I apparently have. Do a little screwing and snug 'em up!
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Date: 2021-11-22 03:32 pm (UTC)Absolutely. Apple laptops chassis are machined aluminum, which commands a premium, and you pay for it and the engineering that goes into it.