Laptop rubber feet

[kiloran]

My HP Pavilion has 4 rubber pads on the underside, about 40x7mm. They cover screws to enable the laptop to be dismantled, and are attached by a tacky, non-setting glue.

One of the pads keeps falling off. The glue seems to have lost most of its tackiness. Any recommendations to fix it? Maybe use sticky-stuff remover to clean it up and then something like Evostick to reattach? Might Evostick be rather too permanent? What kind of glue is used for this purpose?

--kiloran

[AsleepInYorkshire]

My HP Pavilion has 4 rubber pads on the underside, about 40x7mm. They cover screws to enable the laptop to be dismantled, and are attached by a tacky, non-setting glue.

One of the pads keeps falling off. The glue seems to have lost most of its tackiness. Any recommendations to fix it? Maybe use sticky-stuff remover to clean it up and then something like Evostick to reattach? Might Evostick be rather too permanent? What kind of glue is used for this purpose?

--kiloran

Any use?

AiY

[Breelander]

One of the pads keeps falling off....

You're lucky you still have the pad. Some of my laptops have lost all their pads

If I still had them to put back on, I'd use double-sided tape, like this....

https://www.screwfix.com/c/sealants-adh ... /cat850116

[kiloran]

My HP Pavilion has 4 rubber pads on the underside, about 40x7mm. They cover screws to enable the laptop to be dismantled, and are attached by a tacky, non-setting glue.

One of the pads keeps falling off. The glue seems to have lost most of its tackiness. Any recommendations to fix it? Maybe use sticky-stuff remover to clean it up and then something like Evostick to reattach? Might Evostick be rather too permanent? What kind of glue is used for this purpose?

--kiloran

Any use?

AiY

Possibly, but I'd prefer to use the existing feet with an appropriate glue, whatever that is.
Maybe double-sided sticky tape as an alternative.

--kiloran

[swill453]

Doesn't everyone use Blutac for this?

Scott.

[AsleepInYorkshire]

My HP Pavilion has 4 rubber pads on the underside, about 40x7mm. They cover screws to enable the laptop to be dismantled, and are attached by a tacky, non-setting glue.

One of the pads keeps falling off. The glue seems to have lost most of its tackiness. Any recommendations to fix it? Maybe use sticky-stuff remover to clean it up and then something like Evostick to reattach? Might Evostick be rather too permanent? What kind of glue is used for this purpose?

--kiloran

Any use?

AiY

Possibly, but I'd prefer to use the existing feet with an appropriate glue, whatever that is.
Maybe double-sided sticky tape as an alternative.

--kiloran

Yes. I'd forgotten about that stuff.

Maybe this?

AiY

[Infrasonic]

Those double sided sticky pads come in all sorts of sizes shapes and colours - you can find small ones around 5x5mm on Amazon - save you having to cut down a larger one.

[88V8]

I've never owned a laptop, but is it possible that the feet are important for cooling? In terms of raising it for air intake?
I ask because our (1975) Kenwood Chef was overheating some time ago, and it turned out that the seemingly insignificant feet were actually significant as the airspace they created was essential for intake air to the motor.

Anyway, if I had to replace stickon rubber feet I'd use Bumpons https://www.rapidonline.com/3m-bumpon-b ... gle-532329 available here for instance https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BLACK-3M-RUB ... Swjs1gQVyH

V8