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(12-16-2017 06:44 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  Besides not putting batteries in the calculator, is there anything you can do to prevent the door from cracking in the future? Would something like Armor All help rejuvenate the plastic?

I'm always loathe to put any kind of chemical product on these plastic parts. Most of the time they end up making the plastic even more brittle and less resilient, so they do more damage than good long-term.

It may have looked cool when it was thought up but it's not really a practical design because the only real way to make as sure as possible that it won't break is not to put batteries in the machine. Now, if only the designers at HP had thought this through and not put springs in that require approximately 6 tons of pressure to push the hard-to-come-by LR1 cells down sufficiently to slide the door in...

Hindsight is a beautiful thing