[Ti] Re: Ti 15" screen dropped & bent

[Ellen]

> From: Dan K <macdan at comcast.net>
> Subject: [Ti] Re: Ti 15" screen dropped & bent
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> Brooke Willis <brookewillis at earthlink.net> asks:
>> My friend gave me his Ti 400mhz 15¾ cuz he dropped it a few times and 
>> now
>> the case is split open in a few places (and duct-taped). It actually 
>> works
>> just fine, but it¼s a little awkward to open and close (not securely
>> attached to the left hinge) and there are now vertical lines in two 
>> places
>> on the screen. But I¼m still very happy to have gotten it as a gift! 
>> (He
>> convinced his parents to buy him a new one!)
>>
>> Anyway, the Apple store here in Cleveland said it would be $1100ã1300 
>> to fix
>> the screen; do you know of some 3rd-party businesses that do this
>> significantly cheaper, and would you trust them to do it? Or should I 
>> just
>> deal with it and be thankful, until I can save up for a new Powerbook?
> How much have you got to spend? How technically adept are you? The
> solution is to replace the left hinge and possibly the video data cable
> and/or the LCD. There are outfits that can do the repairs or you can do
> it yourself for considerably less. While I can't help with the former, 
> I
> can comment on the latter.
>
> If you can do it yourself . . . on eBay, entire display assemblies cost
> US$150 - $400, bare LCDs cost $75 - $250, hinges go for $25 to $85 each
> and video data cables cost $10 to $50. The easiest repair of course is 
> to
> just replace the entire display. Replacing just the hinge, LCD and/or
> cable requires the glued-together display bezel come apart and be glued
> back together. Not for the technically squeemish, though certainly not
> impossible.
>
> Overall takeapart instructions (try Googling for "pbg4.pdf" ;-) I don't
> have on my TiBook page, but I do have some useful infos:
> <mywebpages.comcast.net/macdan/tibook_display.html>
>
> hth,
>
> dan k
>
Keep in mind that you don't want to spend more than your book is worth. 
  I have seen Ti400's going for around $400, and that's without the 
headaches.
Ellen