How a hard laptop repair looks like! ASUS UM431D water damage repair 

Excellent work. Anyone can simply replace parts, but it takes skill, dedication and patience to repair broken and damaged parts. Then to restore a device to its original working condition with no wastage. Thank you sir.

This is called a "repair" not a "fix"! I do the same for 3 decades. BRAVO.

sorin I found a solution for this kind of problem when you have strong adhesive on something fragile use contact spray the one used to clean electronics and it is non conductive the other thing it veporise so quickly and when it comes in contact with adhesive it breaks it down so fast it is like magic you spray a little wait a few seconds and spray some more and the thing is out hope you see my comment it will make my day to know I helped you

Work of genius ! Brilliant repurposed use of destroyed components. Saved the customer a bundle of cash ! Recycling at it`s best and very educational ! Can`t lose watching this channel !!!

At least you saved another chunk of electronics. Instead of buying another new screen or charger. Fair play you are doing a favour to the planet 👍

To cover the connector you can use two or three layers of black heat shrink sleeve.

Im smilling when mr.sorin says "im pretty sure you'd know whats next the future"

Best electronic repair person ever , he always care about his customer and his viewers. May Allah bless him.

Amazing Work Sorin.. I was going Cross-eyed just watching you work on these Tiny Parts with your Microscope... WOW very impressive skill Sorin. Thanks for sharing

We come here for the professional dodgy work Keep up the good work

Great work Sorin. One adjustment I would make to get the screen out from the rear glue is using a very thin wire from right to left and sliding it down, cutting the glue as you go. A bit like a cheese-cutting wire, also the same method as removing car windscreens from the outer bound. It works well. Thanks

Not only did you fix it but you made me laugh, so keep doing what you are doing Sorin.🤣

I have never been able to learn so much anywhere else than here with you.

you are the real GOAT.....i mean it.... you are like a father to me...in your way..... you teach me so many things that only i can dreamed of...

Excellent, Sorin! If you order a screen and the reebon cable, there's nothing to repair it will be changing parts video like so many other. You are unique and for that I like you very much ♥️

Clearly a PERFECT repair as it works and isn't going to the tip. Love your work.

I also as you have been using glue gun melting material for decades for this and similar purposes. It is especially suitable to create a mold for casting into a certain shape, e.g. cylindrical so that the transition from the connector to the cable looks almost like the original and maybe use black melting material for this purpose :-) Greetings from Slovakia.

Sorin you're not dodgy you are just preventing landfill and you're improvising and I approve of your skills.

I think I remember you once saying you're a ham radio operator. As I am also a ham radio operator, I can confirm that direct solder of connectors is better for RF; however, @ 35:27 it did not look like you soldered the braid very well. I can understand this as braids often oxidize and don't take solder well. Also, you had to be careful not to melt the dielectric as this would mess with the impedance. This is why most direct solder small diameter coax runs are done with a solid ground coax rather than the braided stuff... It's arguable if the job you did is much better than a connector for all the reasons mentioned above... That said, I love how you find ways to fix things with what you have; it is very helpful to see the ideas you come up with, and holy crap do you know your electronics, man.

u know what's boring? not seeing u switching to dodgy mode :) I enjoy every second of ur videos, great work as usual

when you were taking out the screen nearly cracking, is like you was feeling the fear what we were feeling and you was looking at our surprised face

38:39 for the first time I see that Sorin is checking the condition of customer charger plug :-) That is very nice! To see that kind of progress 🙂

Hi Sorin, we absolutely love your dodgy repairs, keep them coming!

Wow, what a surprise to hear you got a job from my home town! Greetings from Gibraltar, as always great job Sorin.

Wow thats amazing i was suprize it even show a good picture on the screen even it has damaged pins

Hello Sorin You did a great job, a real repair, not what most repair shops do, but they should Thank you for teaching people GOD bless you

After heating the back of the screen, you can use a string to separate the panel

Your attitude to work is most interesting.

For the tip of the charger I would use heat-shrink cable isolator but all good. Well done Sorin

For the wire isolation on the power jack, I use nail polisher as isolation tape. Good job...

YOU ARE THE BEST TEACHER THANKS A LOT

This was a perfect calibrated charger. Nice work.

This video make my day❤ Work is right when you are happy

Sorin, price is one of the determinant factor to attract your customer and you did it very nice to satisfy your community around you and a steady flow of job! I commend you!

I have watched the rest, Sorin is the best

you are Just honest person, my next visit to UK i have to meet you with my ASUS Laptop . Thank You Sir

Sorin you are an artist

HP14-J157 & Asus TUF-FX505. With this, I already saw too much. Those 30-pin connectors are cheap in ali... ess. Teardown expensive laptops is always a risk, so I'll check out chromebookparts and choose all videos from that manufacturer. On the other hand, functional and economic repair. Sincere congratulations. Thank you very much for sharing. All the best.

the laptop lid and screen must be a complete unit to swap out - but your repair was good enough and the extra glue on the connector should keep any future slops of liquid out of it... so win win

Don't bother proving trolls a repair is a good repair. You do your thing! Love the vids man, I watch you daily a lot

They use double sided phone screen tape to fix those laptop screens in place. All thin bexel and lids are done this way. Lots of fun with Microsoft surface tablets and tablet pc's in particular. Applying plenty of heat does the trick. Its not glue .... its double side tape.

I would not hot glued the screen connector before test. But all gone well. Good repair.

I would put a shrinkable tube on that charger cable to make it less dodgy😅

Watching from Zambia

Sorin. When removing screens that have the sticky, all you need to do is access a corner, grab the black sticky and pull it straight up. It will all come up, no prying, no damage.

Looks like a time for Baking soda and superglue to build up the connector.

Great Job Sorin, always learn new things from your videos! Thank you

you could have used some rubber band with your pliers so they hold the conector better when soldering. And after hotglue on the port, you could finish it with some shrink tube :) for better then factory design :)

I like your repairs. I have done similar things to repair a broken connector etc. Saving the customer money is what it is all about

Sorin Ive repaired plugs like that on the charger as you have then used hot glue but then put shrink wrap over that while warm. It makes a really nice job plus ridged.

I think cover it with heat shrink sleev and shrink it. Perfectly fine 🔥

Sorin I'm not criticizing, you dont have to fix the charger, but since you did it, you can put a black shrinking tube on the conector, to make it more presentable and less dodgy

this was a nice repair. love the safe part, must be the smoke, because i'm still craying :D greatings from Croatia

now that machine is proper fast in booting up

Perfect dodgy (oxymoron?) repair!!! Sorin great fix, I did the same to my charger since it broke, used shrink wrap but hot glue should be better

Great work as usual keep em coming saves buying and wasting money great job

Satisfaction is main factor

That’s a very good analysis and a perfect job I would never have thought of that, those connections are busted to the LCD screen and you still managed to salvage it, good job 👍

Hi Sorin, perhaps the best solution to the charger repair would to have used a piece of shrink tubing. Still dodgy, but less so ,and would look very neat. Stefan

propper dodgy and loving it. thumbs UP

This is a proper repair and we like it!

Hell.Mr Sorin... Good job..it was hard..we see..but you're at the level. I can say you do your best to teach people ELECTRONICS... That's the first reason of this channel.. Well....but at many time..I asked you an.IMPORTANT QUESTION about REPAIR SHOP BUSINESS WHAT are the prices you can tell people that are willing to open REPAIR SHOP?? WHAT are even APPROXIMATELY the prices you practice in UK..when repairing LAPTOPS or Phones?? It is IMPORTANT for us..to know that we can expect in repairing. Because..we practice ELECTRONICS...not for only enthusiasts..but earn YOUR LIFE..RIGHT?? SO we'll be happy to have your expertise. Thank you ...

Nothing like a new charger connector manufactured by Sorin himself.

i would maybe have used the hot glue on the power plug then put a heat shrink covering on it ,just to tidy it up a bit ;)

Excellent work

You could put a few layers of hot shrink insulation around that charger connector.

A bit of Apple knowledge 🍏: whenever you have stuff glued together with adhesive strips, try to grab one end of the strip and pull it slowly. It should stretch and, by consequence, shrink, until it's too thin to stick to the surfaces and it just slips out.

y is this so fun to watch😭

Love this channel

Dear Sorin. One way that you can prevent future breaking of the connector is to put a pencil spring on the cable end and heat shrink or hot glue it :D This is tested.

Hello Sorin, very nice work. Thank you. 👍

Great work sorin

Super Job

Cheap and doing job now. That is most important but without experiance, knowledge and skills it won`t happen. If order replacement parts that job will extended in time. Greatings from Bulgaria

Job well done. Loving it

se putea folosi ca sleeving un rbk sau htat ori orice tub contractil pe mufa incarcatorului si garantat incarcatorul va tine mai mult decat laptopul in sine in rest.. keep up the good work !

i do this every time for customers also put hotglue black one on top of all that and create closer to good looking jack :)

that's not dodgy it's professional and talent

1:20 (info for others): there is a hit mark in the middle down of the back cover(around small holes). And on the mainboard you can see the same smash mark on the heatpipe. If you follow that heatpipe to right, close to fan - you see that something is wrong with that heatpipe there. It is squeezed and bended at the end of the motherboard edge. And at 32:22 you can see the smashed fins of heatsink in that spot. So.. .. WHEN you see that kind of damages, you have to, as service-technican to do a stress test on the cpu/gpu to check if the heatsink is working fine, because damage on heatpipe can unseal it, which can even stop the proper heat transfer (to radiator) (I had one case like that) .. Also keep in mind that any punch/hit to that thiny motherboard with cpu/gpu/chipset in one thiny chip, which is soldered to the motherboard by around a thousand of small solderballs under it, it can make some of that balls to be cracked. (that is way, the additional stress load tests, are required)

Dodgy is your middle name, Sorin! 🤣 I love it!

Great Job !

Good repair, bet this one was a good feeling. Yes, break a screen once & you learn not to do that again,😖 You did what you needed to do to get it to work, factory or not, it works. 👍 You saved a $1000+ laptop(new) & made a customer very happy I'm sure.😅

I think you would like "Polymorph". It comes in the shape of little white balls/perls that you can buy for a few Euro / Pounds. If you throw it in a glass of 70°C water or heat it with hot air it becomes transparent and you can shape it in any form you want - like dough or Sugru. But once it cools down it gets very hard, solid and white again (you can also color it with pigment parts). If you're not happy heat it up again and fix it. For repairs like the plug it's perfect. I always have a small bag here for repairs and it goes a long way. It's not as sticky as hotglue, but as a "robust shell" it's fantastic to work with.

👍 Thank God. No dancing from Sorin.

Good job mate 👍

Hello Greenbush Minnesota

Another great video!

I love your work, dodgy or not, I do it the same way, I haven't got your skills, but I've learned a lot from watching your videos 👍 Top quality videos, keep them coming 👏 thanks 👍

Thanks for the post and the platform man

When I do jobs for my customers, I always ask myself "What is better in the price, quality and wastage for the customer" and than trying to explain it this way to them. But, sadly said, many people will go for money first and we won't change it.

really excellent

A good trick to remove a display stick like that is with isopropyl alcohol, softens the glue.

A very good repair job with customer in mind

Yes I would have done the same !! Great job

To make a better connector port holder you could use sugru , a rubber cley you can mold as a grip in stead of hot glue :)

Not dodgy at all. Better described as Sorin enhanced. 😇😇😇😁 Eric

I take my hat off to you!

You are great and talented , but why you did not use a shrink tube for charger cable ? Thank you for useful videos.

Very good dodgy job. I prefer to give a job to someone like you, who will do it without asking me to order new things that can be used.

A pen lid made into a back shell for the charging jack, pot in hot glue. Better than factory...