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Left Hinge Surgery
- 10.jpg ( 184 K) : Here is the broken
hinge piece.
- 11.jpg ( 200 K) : This is what your
psion looks like when you open it when your left hinge is broken.
- 12.jpg ( 184 K) : Another
View of broken-hinged
psion when psion is open.
- 13.jpg ( 184 K) : Another
View of broken-hinged
psion when psion is open.
- 14.jpg ( 192 K) : Another view
showing the gap between batteries and body.
- 15.jpg ( 168 K) : Step one: battery
compartment removed.
- 16.jpg ( 168 K) : The battery connector
released from its retaining tab, but not disconnected
from the body. (I don't know why the FAQ recommends disconnecting the
batteries; it didn't seem necessary for this operation.)
- 22.jpg ( 160 K) : The battery connector
has been removed; here is a hinge and spring.
- 23.jpg ( 168 K) :
Spring removed to one side.
- 24.jpg ( 160 K) : Here I
am twisting the button bar so you can see the stump of the hinge.
- 25.jpg ( 160 K) : I drilled the hole
using a sharp precision screwdriver as a drill. The plastic is quite soft.
- 26.jpg ( 168 K) : I made the new hinge
out of a paper clip. I bent it double to give it some thickness, then
put a right angle in it.
Tony Humphreys said I created the new hinge pin from a small round
headed nail. I sawed it to a stump of the right size
and filed the head to a D. Then I pushed it through
the drilled hole and superglued it into place. The D
shape allowed the head to fit snugly among the various
mouldings This was one of the few occasions I have
succeeded with superglue! Though if the superglue does
give way then the spring holds the nail head in place anyway.
- 27.jpg ( 168 K) : New hinge installed but
not yet trimmed..
- 28.jpg ( 152 K) : Hinge trimmed and
held in place
- 29.jpg ( 176 K) : The battery connector
snug under its retaining tab.
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