[WolfSpider]

Looks like hes testing the Pandora's hinge.

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My disposable Pandora test pilot has just survived 1000 vicious openings and closings. Hinge still works. How many until it breaks I wonder?

[rabidpoobear]

WolfSpider, on 03 January 2010 - 07:17 PM, said:

Looks like hes testing the Pandora's hinge.

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My disposable Pandora test pilot has just survived 1000 vicious openings and closings. Hinge still works. How many until it breaks I wonder?

I thought it was really funny when he threw pens and stuff at it in the video, I would've done that too. Glad to hear it's holding up, 1000 is not a very high number for regular stresses but I guess violent openings/closings are a good start. I just hope that they stay strong in actual use. Seems laptops almost always break at the hinge first (if you treat it well). But then again their hinges have to hold up a lot more weight and it's usually the plastic around the hinge that breaks, not the hinge itself (sometimes it gets loose and separates the corner of the laptop)

[SONY]

It'll take 438 billion full open-close actions (non-violent) till it breaks.

EDIT: Please feel free to quote me. :pandora2ut4: B)

This post has been edited by SONY: 04 January 2010 - 01:46 AM

[Tripmonkey_uk]

7793 vicious openings and closings is my guess.

Nice to see some real testing going on ;)

[b1llygo4t]

wait wheres this video?

[shunun]

1000 violent ones sounds good. Does the hinge have metal in it like most of them??

[craigix]

It does have metal in it.

I expect the plastic to break first, but it actually seems to be more stretching on the Pandora when forced, I can see stress marks starting to appear if I force the screen past the final click now. I'm just sitting here flipping the Pandora open and closed (holding the base and violently flicking the top part up and down) as it's the easiest way to force it back past the final click. I occasionally force the top part back hard and hold it there too as far as I can push it.

It still works perfectly. The stretching has not got any worse in the last 500 or so slams.

I keep seeing these DS hinge replacement parts for sale, it worries me that Nintendo can't even get their hinge 100%.

How many do you think is a reasonable amount to try to do? I'm thinking a well used Pandora might be opened and closed 15 times a day.

[Kloplop321]

b1llygo4t, on 03 January 2010 - 07:56 PM, said:

wait wheres this video?

Do you really want a video of an empty-soulless pandora being viscously closed and open multiple times on youtube?
Sure for the lols, but it would ultimately be a waste of time as it doesn't show the OS in action.

[Tripmonkey_uk]

50.000 times enjoy :D

[VRAndy]

craigix, on 03 January 2010 - 09:43 PM, said:

How many do you think is a reasonable amount to try to do? I'm thinking a well used Pandora might be opened and closed 15 times a day.

You need to go all "Consumer Reports" (do they have that in UK?) and build a hing-testing machine that runs for days on end opening and closing the hinge!

(P.S. : That would make an awesome youTube video.)

This post has been edited by VRAndy: 04 January 2010 - 02:54 AM

[Tripmonkey_uk]

VRAndy, on 04 January 2010 - 02:53 AM, said:

craigix, on 03 January 2010 - 09:43 PM, said:

How many do you think is a reasonable amount to try to do? I'm thinking a well used Pandora might be opened and closed 15 times a day.

You need to go all "Consumer Reports" (do they have that in UK?) and build a hing-testing machine that runs for days on end opening and closing the hinge!

(P.S. : That would make an awesome youTube video.)

Or they can hire a tramp to do it and pay him in soup :blink:

[craigix]

Or I can just do a few thousand and see what happens. Nothing more has happened. Done another 150.

I think the stretching might have just been the nature of the material. It seems pretty solid now, no change in ages, but I'll keep going until it breaks or I decide it never will.

[BackAssward]

Tripmonkey_uk, on 03 January 2010 - 06:55 PM, said:

VRAndy, on 04 January 2010 - 02:53 AM, said:

craigix, on 03 January 2010 - 09:43 PM, said:

How many do you think is a reasonable amount to try to do? I'm thinking a well used Pandora might be opened and closed 15 times a day.

You need to go all "Consumer Reports" (do they have that in UK?) and build a hing-testing machine that runs for days on end opening and closing the hinge!

(P.S. : That would make an awesome youTube video.)

Or they can hire a tramp to do it and pay him in soup :blink:

Why would they want a promiscuous woman to do it, when they could get a bum. :P

[Rathum]

BackAssward, on 03 January 2010 - 08:57 PM, said:

Tripmonkey_uk, on 03 January 2010 - 06:55 PM, said:

VRAndy, on 04 January 2010 - 02:53 AM, said:

craigix, on 03 January 2010 - 09:43 PM, said:

How many do you think is a reasonable amount to try to do? I'm thinking a well used Pandora might be opened and closed 15 times a day.

You need to go all "Consumer Reports" (do they have that in UK?) and build a hing-testing machine that runs for days on end opening and closing the hinge!

(P.S. : That would make an awesome youTube video.)

Or they can hire a tramp to do it and pay him in soup :blink:

Why would they want a promiscuous woman to do it, when they could get a bum. :P

You won't get quality work out of a lazy person. They should get a hobo.

[Tripmonkey_uk]

Rathum, on 04 January 2010 - 03:01 AM, said:

You won't get quality work out of a lazy person. They should get a hobo.

A hobo would nick it as the Pandora is the perfect travelling companion :(

EDIT:Quotes were getting a little long :)

This post has been edited by Tripmonkey_uk: 04 January 2010 - 03:04 AM