Simple repairs for your laptop with sugru

My laptop has been falling apart ever since my dell warranty ended so I thought it was finally time to fix it up.

In this instructable I'll show you how to add lil rubber feet and add strength to a laptop power cord hats falling apart.

As always I made this for a contest since sugru was nice enough to send this stuff out to me (THANK YOU) also if your viewing this from the gorillia glue prodject, read the rules befor you yell at me and same thing for the office contest.

Step 1 What you'll need

#1 you'll need a small hack pack of sugru (any colo)

#2 something flat to help shape the sugru

#3 a q-tip and rubbing alcohol to clean the surface before you attach the sugru

and most of all you'll need a laptop with either a cord falling apart or one missing the rubber feet

Comments

[projectsugru]

nice hacking :)

[sillyzombie666]

thank you, i still need to buy a few packs more since other rubber feet fell off

[EdgeC]

You're right about ThinkGeek, they ROCK. But I think the Dell Stodio platform is a flop. Mine's constantly over heating and freezing, the left hinge Is on it's last leg, and half of my USB ports don't work. But with X-mas comming I hope to get a new computer. And I think I'll follow your Idea for the pads, well done.

[sillyzombie666]

in all with dell i had about 7 replacements, about 5 of em were studio 17s and about all of them had multible hing issues where the entire hinge and screen fell apart, many cord issues,and with each screen issue the power button stops working.

but with this one the hinge feels weak but its ok, the cord you see is broke, but with the power button you must have it open at just the right angle for it to turn on or off.... yup and this freezes alot but its a windows7 64 bit issue

[ron2470]

nice ible and very nice laptop. i have a dell studio as well and i love it.

[sillyzombie666]

when i first got my laptop it was an insperon i think then it kept dieing / failing until i got like 5 diff system replacement and got this one i still have a spare battery for the old studio since it wont work in this one.

also thanks for the comment i have yet to get any nice comments on my instructables, so far i got one saying how lame it was that my other sugru contest submission was in the gorilla glue contest and some one else asked it another one i made was real lol

[ron2470]

thnx man good luck with the instructables

[sillyzombie666]

thanks man, check out my other instructables i have about 1 more in the works for the Halloween contest and then like 2 or 3 others i got floating around in my head