My now old faithful laptop I have had to repair a few times over the years. One of my repairs damaged the motherboard socket where a USB + card slot adaptor plugged in, so that has been out of commission for 18 months, until I spotted a used replacement m/board last week, arrived and installed Tuesday, so all working again. I had sort of promised myself a complete new laptop, it has so many issues - until I spotted that m/board 
The F6 keytop is missing, the battery has begun to swell, the mousepad buttons need an incredible amount of force to get them to click and the palm rest has a crack in it, due to the battery swelling.
12 months ago, I noticed the mains PSU, where the 19v lead entered a right angle plug, to go into the laptop, had begun to split. I put a few turns of tape on it, to try to preserve it for a while longer.
Yesterday, I noticed the laptop showed as not charging - which I traced to a break in the lead, where I had previously repaired it. Examining it, I realised the lead was a coax lead, with the outer screen snapped completely and intended to be the -ve pole.
As a botch, I stripped back the outer PVC for a few mm at either side of the break and cut a strip of oven foil about 4mm wide. That I wrapped round and round the outer screen at both ends of the break and across the break, then with plenty of thickness on it, I crimped it tightly. It would have been good to be able to slip some heat-shrink over the top of that, but at one end was the plug and at the other the PSU. Instead and lacking any better idea, I dribbled some Araldite along the entire length of the repair and a bit beyond. My botch works fine
The F6 keytop is missing, the battery has begun to swell, the mousepad buttons need an incredible amount of force to get them to click and the palm rest has a crack in it, due to the battery swelling.
12 months ago, I noticed the mains PSU, where the 19v lead entered a right angle plug, to go into the laptop, had begun to split. I put a few turns of tape on it, to try to preserve it for a while longer.
Yesterday, I noticed the laptop showed as not charging - which I traced to a break in the lead, where I had previously repaired it. Examining it, I realised the lead was a coax lead, with the outer screen snapped completely and intended to be the -ve pole.
As a botch, I stripped back the outer PVC for a few mm at either side of the break and cut a strip of oven foil about 4mm wide. That I wrapped round and round the outer screen at both ends of the break and across the break, then with plenty of thickness on it, I crimped it tightly. It would have been good to be able to slip some heat-shrink over the top of that, but at one end was the plug and at the other the PSU. Instead and lacking any better idea, I dribbled some Araldite along the entire length of the repair and a bit beyond. My botch works fine
