From: Woody Smith (woodysmith_at_comcast.net)
Date: Tue Apr 12 2005 - 19:39:44 PDT
The ease of this approach is very tempting, but how do you know that
one of the springs hasn't already released.
I have opened more than one eMate that was symptom free and found one
of the springs pressing against the display ribbon with a puncture
already starting.
The only safe way to approach the spring problem is to open it up and
examine it. At this point I would disassemble the spring, clean off
the old grease and apply new grease and the washer. But at this point
you decide to only oil it, at least install the washers.
Woody
On Apr 12, 2005, at 8:11 PM, Winston MacKelvie wrote:
> I posted about oiling the hinge having done that to my eMate. The steel
> rod of the hinge is visible in the small gap between the hinging screen
> and the eMate body. I used a Teflon fortified oil from a hobby shop but
> any light oil (ie sewing machine oil or 3-in-one oil) will be better
> than none. Use a toothpick or fine wire to carry a small drop of oil
> onto the steel hinge pin. It will naturally migrate to where it is
> needed. If you prefer, do one pin at a time and leave the eMate on its
> edge so that the oil will preferentially flow by gravity down onto the
> spring (the culprit) for that side and repeat for the other some hours
> later.
>
> Regards,
> Winston
> www.inventure.ca
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