Broken Laptop Hinge - paperweight or repair?

[shed driver]

I've got an old HP Envy 6 Ultrabook, it's about 10 years old. One of the hinges has failed, when I try to close the lid it pulls the bezel from around the screen. Some old bits of broken plastic have come out of the hinge area.

Is it worth fixing? Is it DIY?

AMD A6, 6Gb RAM, 500Gb SSD.






And yes, I know it needs a damn good clean!
SD.

[nyt]

A new screen bezel should be available cheaply (£10-£20ish) on ebay - you'd need to check
Likewise the hinge.

Replacing it is less than an hour's work.

In short, it should be a cheap job, talk to you local repair shops.

[Mr Pointy]

Treat yourself to a replacement. It's done well to do 10 years but technology has moved on.

[Narcisus]

If it’s still doing what you want it to do fix. If not .......

[Skyedriver]

When I read the title I thought it was going to be a Toshiba, mine disintegrated in similar fashion, kept duck taping it, propping the screen permanently open, it's now upstairs in the attic as a "spare" but it's so slow, it would be quicker to go buy a new machine

[Pistom]

Skyedriver said:

When I read the title I thought it was going to be a Toshiba, mine disintegrated in similar fashion, kept duck taping it, propping the screen permanently open, it's now upstairs in the attic as a "spare" but it's so slow, it would be quicker to go buy a new machine

I had similar issues with a Toshiba. I got replacement parts off Ebay for about £10 and about an hour to fix which I enjoyed doing anyway.

I ended up giving the machine away as I decided to get an upgrade but it was still better to repair it and someone get use out of it than bin it.

[Ozone]

I repaired my sisters HP laptop a few weeks ago for pretty much an identical problem.
Stripped it, straightened the hinge and superglued back together. It's as good as new, not impressed with the processor speeds so may end up putting a flavour of Linux on it.

If you're going to bin it, I may have some space in my Old Laptop Rest Home for the terminally out of date

[shed driver]

Since I put an SSD in it actually transformed the machine. I think I may put a flavour of Linux on it and use it as a Powerpoint (equivalent) machine. I do a fair few presentations to youth groups so a cheap laptop is ideal.

SD.

[Captain Answer]

Repaired a good few HP laptops, they are easy enough to do if you have the patience, small set of screwdrivers, torx (and in some cases security torx)

If you can get the parts then I'd say do it

[DuckAvenger]

I also have some old HP laptop. Hinge went kaput. Well, hdmi-cable, really cheap keyboard and second monitor solved that problem. Just lid down and it's just a black box. So basically it is now a desktop computer but it works and for other use I have couple of laptops.

[Mars]

I had an HP laptop where the puny cast alloy hinge broke in half, so I took it out, glued it together so I had a pattern, and made another one from a large steel bolt. When the other side failed, I did the same with another bolt. Took me half an hour a time to cut, file, drill and tap but it worked and was still going strong when I sold the laptop over 5 years later.