New screen arrived today, just 7 days of shipping from America from day of ordering last Wednesday. Not going to install it till I've built a new case for it which, I started yesterday.
Started with reinforcing the lid with a back panel and testing it all out before moving onto the lower section. Cut the MDF and perspex sheet to the correct size, taped it together with black masking tape and put it into a black laptop sleeve and stapled it together. I found some steel tent rods in which to hang the backboard onto and to clip into place whilst held on with making tape and velcro pads.
Whilst the lid is now near bullet proof and strong, it does add a bit of eight to the hinge mechanism which has some adverse effects when the lid is tilt at a certain angle and making the lid drop in an instant to a complete flat state. It also raises the lower keyboard section to make it tip at a certain point also. I'm not sure about how safely I can attack the new back section I've made in not being a detriment for the new screen I have, which wasn't cheap and therefor risky to use it with the risk of the panel bending in any way. It sure can't be used if the lid is able to be slam down in any way either.
There are 5 tent pins, 3 up, and 2 across which are light enough for the laptop lid to be able to support at the back. so I may mean that I'll need to find a much lighter solution such as a thinner plastic sheet, the only problem with that though is that it will possibly bend. If that's the case,' I'll probably need to add more steel pins across the back of the lid area. How many, I'm not sure, but they are all hooked at one end. If I had a lot of them that spread across, say like 50 in my estimate, I'm not sure how much weight the lid would tilt before slamming down. The 4 mil MDF sheet is probably light enough to test out with the 5 pin on the back atm, so that's what I'll test next. The 5 mil perspex sheet can be used for another part of the new laptop frame. I forgot to mention that I have 4 steel L-Brackets that I tried to use to elevate the back panel and as a riser for the lid and fan system the laptop sits on.
It's a fun project but it's quite a critical one to get right.
Started with reinforcing the lid with a back panel and testing it all out before moving onto the lower section. Cut the MDF and perspex sheet to the correct size, taped it together with black masking tape and put it into a black laptop sleeve and stapled it together. I found some steel tent rods in which to hang the backboard onto and to clip into place whilst held on with making tape and velcro pads.
Whilst the lid is now near bullet proof and strong, it does add a bit of eight to the hinge mechanism which has some adverse effects when the lid is tilt at a certain angle and making the lid drop in an instant to a complete flat state. It also raises the lower keyboard section to make it tip at a certain point also. I'm not sure about how safely I can attack the new back section I've made in not being a detriment for the new screen I have, which wasn't cheap and therefor risky to use it with the risk of the panel bending in any way. It sure can't be used if the lid is able to be slam down in any way either.
There are 5 tent pins, 3 up, and 2 across which are light enough for the laptop lid to be able to support at the back. so I may mean that I'll need to find a much lighter solution such as a thinner plastic sheet, the only problem with that though is that it will possibly bend. If that's the case,' I'll probably need to add more steel pins across the back of the lid area. How many, I'm not sure, but they are all hooked at one end. If I had a lot of them that spread across, say like 50 in my estimate, I'm not sure how much weight the lid would tilt before slamming down. The 4 mil MDF sheet is probably light enough to test out with the 5 pin on the back atm, so that's what I'll test next. The 5 mil perspex sheet can be used for another part of the new laptop frame. I forgot to mention that I have 4 steel L-Brackets that I tried to use to elevate the back panel and as a riser for the lid and fan system the laptop sits on.
It's a fun project but it's quite a critical one to get right.
Statistics: Posted by THE INTRANCER — Thu Jan 23, 2025 12:14 am