Coincidentally this happened recently to my Sharp Actius laptop.  Last
night I was able to disassemble it and wedge in a piece of paper folded to
the right thickness so that reassembled the power socket didn't wiggle as
much.  If that doesn't work I'll go back and superglue it (it has a
plastic housing).

-alex


On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> on my z50 (which I bought used), the power socket doesn't seem to be
> connected very well to the rest of the machine. if I just plug it in, the
> charging light won't come on. to get external power working, I need to
> actually apply downward pressure to the power plug, which pulls downward on
> that socket. it seems to be getting worse, requiring more pressure to work
> as time goes on.
> 
> I've got a junk Thinkpad down in the basement with the same problem; so I
> suspect something wrong with IBMs design. 
> 
> anyone ever seen this before, and know how to take one of these apart so I
> can solder on the socket? (at least I'm guessing that's the way to fix it).
> I tried taking it apart once, and couldn't figure out (trivially at least)
> how to get more than the keyboard off. the motherboard is all sealed up
> inside the main case it seems.
> 
> Carl Soderstrom
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