moothefish
Member
So i've recently acquired a PowerBook 150 in good shape with the traditional broken right hand side hinge mounts. Following advice from this forum and other sources I attempted to epoxy the screw inserts back into the position they should be in and got everything lined up fairly well and let it cure for about 48 hours. Started the reassembly process and as soon as i closed and opened the display once, the inserts tore straight out of the blob of epoxy, and i'm now back where I started.
While the machine in general is in good shape the top lid has some texta marks that I can't entirely remove, and I would like to be able to take this machine around places and show people what their macbook pro used to look like. So I'm wondering what the best option would be in terms of putting some screws through the casing to hold it together more securely and reliably. Controversial, yes. But I would like to actually be able to use the machine and I can't see any easy way of removing the epoxy I've put in and replacing it with a different kind.
I'm also a little concerned that putting some kind of fastener through the back casing will just cause the case to eventually crack even more around where the fastening goes through. Has anyone done something like this on a 1xx series machine with any long term success?
While the machine in general is in good shape the top lid has some texta marks that I can't entirely remove, and I would like to be able to take this machine around places and show people what their macbook pro used to look like. So I'm wondering what the best option would be in terms of putting some screws through the casing to hold it together more securely and reliably. Controversial, yes. But I would like to actually be able to use the machine and I can't see any easy way of removing the epoxy I've put in and replacing it with a different kind.
I'm also a little concerned that putting some kind of fastener through the back casing will just cause the case to eventually crack even more around where the fastening goes through. Has anyone done something like this on a 1xx series machine with any long term success?