95LX exploding hinge

[Dave Britten]

This has me both perplexed and perturbed. I've got a pair of 1 MB 95LXes, and both of them within the past year have blown out the right hinge. This isn't the usual stress crack that develops on the 200LX, rather the outward force of the spring inside the hinge has cracked the plastic and caused the hinge assembly to start decompressing outward. In other words, they work fine if you don't mind the screen laying completely open and flat due to lack of a right hinge... Is that a typical problem with the 95LX? Kinda weird that essentially the same thing has happened to two of them within such a short span. I've got another one on the way, so hopefully I won't make it three...