{"id":931,"date":"2013-05-20T06:51:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T06:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2013-05-20T06:51:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T06:51:02","slug":"how-can-i-prevent-my-laptop-hinges-from-cracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"How can I prevent my laptop hinges from cracking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;margin:5px;font-size:80%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"product design flaws\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7019\/6510961091_918994c2d8_m.jpg\" width=\"160\"\/><br \/> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/97699482@N00\/6510961091\">MarkGregory007<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><i>Question by Tarv<\/i>: How can I prevent my laptop hinges from cracking?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I take good care of my MSI laptop, but I had to replace a 1.5 year old hinge after it cracked.  Now the other hinge is coming apart also (2 years).  I&#8217;ll get this hinge replaced too, but is there something I can do in the future to prevent this from happening?  Products, tricks, secrets to laptop care, I&#8217;ll take any advice<br \/>\nand I have already heard that laptop hinges aren&#8217;t the greatest<br \/>\nspecifically MSI laptop hinges<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by ?<\/i><br \/>Try rubbing a little bit of vaseline into the hinge it just might lubricate it enough to help.<br \/>\nOr you could go to this site and win a new laptop http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4xajr9l<\/p>\n<p><strong>Give your answer to this question below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by MarkGregory007 Question by Tarv: How can I prevent my laptop hinges from cracking? I take good care of my MSI laptop, but I had to replace a 1.5 year old hinge after it cracked. Now the other hinge is coming apart also (2 years). I&#8217;ll get this hinge replaced too, but is there something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2451,552,2450,599,2449],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-flaws","tag-cracking","tag-from","tag-hinges","tag-laptop","tag-prevent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}