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Repairing the rubber strip?
« on: June 02, 2018, 01:14:32 pm »
Reviewers reported it happening to them and now it's happened to me: The rubber strip on the top/hinge bottom of my Gemini has begun to pull loose. There's a series of holes into which it was apparently once anchored, but it defies efforts to reinsert it. Anyone else encountered this? What did you do about it?
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Repairing the rubber strip?
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2018, 03:58:22 pm »
I glued it in place with a tad of bisonkit glue, no problems ever since

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« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2018, 11:11:11 pm »
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Reviewers reported it happening to them and now it's happened to me: The rubber strip on the top/hinge bottom of my Gemini has begun to pull loose. There's a series of holes into which it was apparently once anchored, but it defies efforts to reinsert it. Anyone else encountered this? What did you do about it?

Was your unit from the first batch or second batch? If it was first batch i can only think the glue used was not strong enough. Then in second batch they must have used a stronger bonded glue.

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« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2018, 11:20:42 pm »
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Reviewers reported it happening to them and now it's happened to me: The rubber strip on the top/hinge bottom of my Gemini has begun to pull loose. There's a series of holes into which it was apparently once anchored, but it defies efforts to reinsert it. Anyone else encountered this? What did you do about it?

Was your unit from the first batch or second batch? If it was first batch i can only think the glue used was not strong enough. Then in second batch they must have used a stronger bonded glue.
Second batch. I'm not sure any glue at all was used -- little rubber nubbins stuck into holes in the metal itself.
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Atari Portfolio (yes, it still works and yes, I bought it new)
Libretto 110 CT (with docking station and all kinds of PCMCIA stuff)
And, now, a Gemini and, fortunately, a GPD Pocket