<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 15, 2008, at 11:30 AM, David Logan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">just managed to break the exstream left hinge. it actually opens easier now.<br>was wondering if this is going to be a problem later on with the main hinge or the right side hinge. with more stress being put on these<br></font></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div>Is the display still attached at the left end or is it swinging free? If swinging free, repeated open/closes will eventually stress the right hinge and probably damage it. Plus, there are wires in the hinge that will get damaged.<div><br></div><div>If the display is still attached to the laptop body somehow but no longer providing friction hold, It should last a while. On mine, the hinge pin is broke, (broke while I was trying to loosen it.) but the display is still attached. It opens a lot easier, but there's still enough friction in the right hinge to hold the display open. <div><br></div><div>You'll probably want to limit the number of openings and closings if possible.<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>-- </div><div>Dennis Fazio</div><div><a href="mailto:dfz@mac.com">dfz@mac.com</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>