I need to experiment with those sort of repairs as well. Sometimes the spare parts just aren't available!

@@Adamant_IT - or they're expensive as hell, and not worth the purchase.

@@Adamant_IT PC-11 and PC-7 epoxy paste is awesome sticky stuff. It's messy and sticky and takes a while to cure but it's good stuff and relatively cheap in the states.

My Inspiron 7559 had similiar problem where the plastic had broken on the base where the hinge screws in on the left side. Today, will go with epoxy to fix the base first as spare base plate is just hard to come by for half a decade old laptop.

actually I commented too soon lol

@@maxpaprika289 was about to say...

I find a way around having to upgrade the storage is to install Windows 10 LTSC. Because there's not so much going on in the background, after a few minutes the performance will be perfectly fine with a hard drive.

@@jamescollins6085 Win10 LTSC is very good in some respects, but I always find that I have missed something out of importance - it's also very difficult to get it officially being activated only with an enterprise key.

@@ChishanFipz Yeah, activation is difficult. I tend to use the KMS38 exploit to get LTSC activated and it works every time.

many have complained about he music being too intrusive, so he has reduced it big time... if you want music while he does these builds, just open another tab and select whatever tune you wish to hear.... fortunately myself i don't need to HAVE music playing while watching teardowns/rebuilds.

Honestly, it doesn't come out nearly as bad as I thought. While I was recording it was _loud_ out there, but after the mic filters I probably could've cut that whole bit and no one would've noticed that there were roadworks right outside. I'd definitely give RTX Voice a whirl if RTX-series GPUs were affordable enough to chuck in the recording rig. As things are, there's little benefit to me upgrading the GTX 960 I encode on.

@@Adamant_IT Yes, affordability and availability are concerns. :)

They're usually in the screen as it moves them away from more shielded areas of the laptop. But broadly speaking, anywhere will work. I've left replacement antennas tucked in wherever there's a gap on laptops before and they've worked just fine. Screen is optimal, but anywhere is good enough.

@@Adamant_IT alright thank you so much

Same here, but I have only 18 years of xp :p

in a similar vein .........MY WIFE USES A CREDIT CARD TO FIX EVERY PROBLEM ...shame she dosnt think about the bills that come with that solution :)

@@tonybarden8563 Thanks for the laugh.. lol

Yea that's fair, I haven't tried a credit card actually. By plastic tools I'm referring to the cheap plastic spudgers that often come with spare parts. Ultimately I always recommend whatever people feel comfortable with!

on a serious note (not like the wifes abuse of credit cards isnt serious) but old credit cards/fingernails/ and those nice rigid plastic sheets you get as applicators/protectors for mobile phone screens all make great tools to assist in pc/phone repairs the screen protector applicator sheets are really top notch for slicing thru the glue on the mobile phones these days when you need battery change or screen replacements done im an old school credit card user for applying thermal paste , cant understand all this apply grain of rice in area X unless using thermal paste brand Y as that one wont spread itself etc etc etc just squeeze out ya paste and then spread it out thin and even with the credit card

Mostly eBay. Batteries are always tricky, can't make any strong recommendations there.

look up his voltage injection videos, those show how to probe around.

I usually charge £50 + parts for assembly jobs like this. Need to see it first, but if you want supply parts you're more than welcome to!

Yea, if they're not marked, or all different, I'm usually making a pattern on the desk next to me.

I do everything manually at the moment. Not ideal, but I haven't found the time to get something more automated setup.

@@Adamant_IT ah I’m surprised! You seem to have everything covered and on top of everything! Thanks for replying! (Maybe that’s an episode finding that software he he) Thanks for replying though! Keep up the good work!

Yup, small magnet. You can find them in some laptop screens, older iMacs, etc. Very handy to add/remove magnetism from the screwdriver as required - and hold screws as well.

@@Adamant_IT I just recieved the "big pack" of the wera micros, on your recomandation - Nice ones! :) (I live in Denmark without amazon so no affiliate) - Love your videos btw - want a wisit by a dane who wants to learn efter covid? :)

Ok u do lolol

It's a YZH brand one. Battery in it is a bit small, but it's pretty good bang for buck all-round.

I want to look into this in the future, I'm keeping my eye out for some darling little screw extractors, but most of the ones I see for sale have no sizes listed, and I doubt they're small enough for electronics. At present, anything I can't remove with my Wera screw drivers I normally cut a slot in with a dremel. Usually a _good_ screw driver will get a bad screw out though.

I've started up-selling a bit more, because I know that when they feel their laptop with an SSD in it, they'll be like "oh heck this was worth every penny..." I've had people call up just to tell me how amazed they are at the difference it made. That makes me braver about pushing an upgrade in cases where there's technically nothing wrong with the HDD.

​@@Adamant_IT That makes sense! I pushed the idea to my brother for 2 years (I proposed upgrading him a handful of times over that timespan), and in the end he finally decided to jump on a good deal for a boot drive SSD. Amazingly though, he says he hasn't noticed a difference... He's the only one I've heard that from so far. He doesn't care about tech, but he does use his computer a lot and likes to play games like LoL, Heartstone and Rocket League on it. I'm perplexed to be honest!

The electric boy? It's a YZH Electric Screwdriver. Not a super expensive one, but as you can see it makes zapping out a lot of screws nice and easy.

@@Adamant_IT Thank you. It appears to be a handy one.

That's the keyboard backlight. This one didn't have the backlit keyboard, so that connector remains empty.

​@@Adamant_IT I agree with most things you say in this video, even if you know a lot about pc repair you still learn new things, thanks for your fast reply to my question cheers

Tbh they're all as bad as each other. I'm a big fan of Dell Latitude, they're tougher than the inspirons because Business-class.

@@Adamant_IT thanx

Get an older ThinkPad. I use a w541.

The trick is that it's never within my arm's sweep-range. I always have to reach to pick it up. But yea, something something don't put mugs next to your laptop.

It's because the bezels are becoming slimmer and would be harder to route cables up the side and placement at the top of the lid.