PB 1400

[Robert Boucher]

I was able to break off the "hook" that latches the lid to the body of
my Powerbook 1400. I am considering trying to super glue it back
although I don't think this will work. I started to try to remove the
main portion of the hook but quit when I couldn't easily remove it from
the lid.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

[Nigel Blatheringstock]

In article <3F5CF891.3E94@alumni.utexas.net>, Robert Boucher
<boucher1@alumni.utexas.net> wrote:

> I was able to break off the "hook" that latches the lid to the body of
> my Powerbook 1400.

That can't have been easy. :-(

> I am considering trying to super glue it back
> although I don't think this will work. I started to try to remove the
> main portion of the hook but quit when I couldn't easily remove it from
> the lid.

No, it's a bear. But you've downloaded the complete 1400 disassembly
manual from apple.com, right? (Sorry: I have the Acrobat-printed
manuals but no longer the URL. Finding the manual is just a matter of
browsing the apple.com site, though.)

> Does anyone have any other suggestions?

I have an inelegant but fully serviceable suggestion. Because the
screen's bezel is scooped out around its full perimeter, there is room
for sticky-back Velcro strips. Adhere the stiff Velcro patches to the
bezel's recessed outer-front corners, and adhere the plush Velcro
patches on the upper surface of the main case's top-front edge
(essentially under where your palms are when you type). There is enough
room there to make a useful grip with the lid fully closed.

When the 1400 is closed, it will look like any other 1400. A gentle
(not violent or swift) raising of the lid will leave you ready for
work.

I hope this helps.

Nigel

--
"Some day science may have the existence of mankind
in its power, and the human race commit suicide,
by blowing up the world."
-- Henry Brooks Adams, 11 April 1862

[Michael Black]

"Kirsplat" <kirblam@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<lwi8b.325789$Oz4.113394@rwcrnsc54>...

> It's not as easy as browsing the web site anymore for the manuals. Many of
> the old links are 404s. Apple isn't as great as I'd like with their legacy
> stuff.
>

I think they just shifted them around. I picked up a 1400C last weekend,
and obviously started doing some searches for information about it.
Found a link to a manual on the Apple site, but it was gone. Found
a site that at first seemed to have archived the manuals,
[url]http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/manuals.html[/url]
I'm not sure if it's their archive, but the point to various other
sites for the manuals, including some for the 1400 on the Apple
site.

Specifically,
[url]http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50593[/url]
offers up at lest some 1400-related manuals.

I was a tad disappointed to download a multi-meg PDF only to
find that it was merely a disassembly manual. Useful, but
for the actual amount of information it conveys, it's a pretty
big PDF.

Michael

> If you need the manuals let me know. Maybe consider getting a broken 1400
> cheap and salvaging the parts as you need them?
>
> "Robert Boucher" <boucher1@alumni.utexas.net> wrote in message
> news:3F5CF891.3E94@alumni.utexas.net...

> > I was able to break off the "hook" that latches the lid to the body of
> > my Powerbook 1400. I am considering trying to super glue it back
> > although I don't think this will work. I started to try to remove the
> > main portion of the hook but quit when I couldn't easily remove it from
> > the lid.
> >
> > Does anyone have any other suggestions?