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I did some damage to my Asus G551VW FY212T bottom. I will include picture. How did i damage it you might ask? I had a very hard time removing old toshiba hdd out of metal caddy. I spent hours literally trying to unscrew toshiba out of caddy. Why do these manufactures screw in so tight? I had to bent twist caddy and the caddy was trashed. Silly me tried to put broken caddy back into laptop hard drive bay and I did damage scratched inside laptop with metal caddy.  So how can I repair the bottom casing?

 

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get a new bottom cover from ebay, if you want a well-built laptop without any issues get a business laptop. gaming "laptops" have build issues usually. 

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get some tape 

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13 minutes ago, kennyreid95 said:

I did some damage to my Asus G551VW FY212T bottom. I will include picture. How did i damage it you might ask? I had a very hard time removing old toshiba hdd out of metal caddy. I spent hours literally trying to unscrew toshiba out of caddy. Why do these manufactures screw in so tight? I had to bent twist caddy and the caddy was trashed. Silly me tried to put broken caddy back into laptop hard drive bay and I did damage scratched inside laptop with metal caddy.  So how can I repair the bottom casing?

 

 

If it took you that long to get the HDD out and bent the caddy in the process, you probably uses the wrong size head of screwdriver.

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On 2/5/2017 at 3:29 PM, nerdslayer1 said:

get a new bottom cover from ebay, if you want a well-built laptop without any issues get a business laptop. gaming "laptops" have build issues usually. 

Ok just type search on ebay, asus bottom cover. Got it. 

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On 2/5/2017 at 3:39 PM, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

If it took you that long to get the HDD out and bent the caddy in the process, you probably uses the wrong size head of screwdriver.

No the issue is that these manufacturers screw the caddy in so tight. It was very hard for me to unscrew even with all my strength. 

My specs Case: Enermax ECA3280A-BR CPU: i7 4790K Mobo: Asus Z97 Deluxe Ram: Crucial CRBLS16K1280 16GB HDD: WD10EZEX 00BN5A0 1 TB HDD & PNY CS1311 256 GB SSD Blu Ray: WH16NS40 Power Supply: EVGA 650 G2 GPU: Sapphire Vapor X R9 290 4GB OS: Windows 7 64Bit Water Cooler: Corsair H105 Monitor: Acer H257HU

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They use loctite threadlocker to prevent the screws from coming loose from vibrations (the blue stuff you see on the threads when you look at a removed screw). Where possible you can heat the screws up (with a soldering iron, for example) as that weakens the threadlocker. If you're dealing with screws in plastic parts you're out of luck, ofc.

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What specifically do I type into ebay search to find bottom cover for my laptop?

My specs Case: Enermax ECA3280A-BR CPU: i7 4790K Mobo: Asus Z97 Deluxe Ram: Crucial CRBLS16K1280 16GB HDD: WD10EZEX 00BN5A0 1 TB HDD & PNY CS1311 256 GB SSD Blu Ray: WH16NS40 Power Supply: EVGA 650 G2 GPU: Sapphire Vapor X R9 290 4GB OS: Windows 7 64Bit Water Cooler: Corsair H105 Monitor: Acer H257HU

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On 2/5/2017 at 3:29 PM, nerdslayer1 said:

get a new bottom cover from ebay, if you want a well-built laptop without any issues get a business laptop. gaming "laptops" have build issues usually. 

Hello?

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