Laptop screw insert repair (4 parts)

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I've added three more variations: one slightly smaller, one with a curved bottom, and one with a chamfered bottom - I'll print the last two upside down. A very quick and simple fix for damaged laptop screw inserts is available. Sometimes when a laptop is dropped, the brass insert breaks out of the small plastic housings, making it impossible to screw the laptop case back together. These have a 3.8mm internal hole that can be used. Just squeeze the original brass part into the hole with a vice and glue it in position very carefully and accurately inside the laptop. These are flat bottomed, which may only fit in certain positions. You need to remove the original damaged plastic to allow this part to fit on a flat surface properly. If the part needs to be thicker than 2.8mm, just scale up in the z direction to achieve the desired thickness. This part was made to fit typical laptop brass inserts and may not fit all laptops, but it only takes a minute or so to print, and you can scale up or down if needed. 0.2mm layer height, 1.2mm walls, 100% infill are recommended settings for printing this part.