Your Dell laptop has broken hinges and you don’t want to spend a lot of money to repair an older computer? Not a problem. You can fix it yourself.
Here’s a great DIY guide for fixing a broken hinge on a Dell Latitude C600 laptop. This guide should work for many other Dell laptops too.

Well, one day my laptop fell down and the hinge + cover broke at the right side - a problem a lot of notebooks have as parts like the hinges, their covers and the TFT display often brake on notebooks.
Hinges for DELL notebooks are expensive - I followed some auctions on eBay and realized that I’d be too greedy to invest something like EUR 30,- ++ for a (2nd hand!!) hinge - a part which consists of poor aluminum and isn’t that big.

Do you have some free time? Fix the broken hinge without paying for it.
For this repair you’ll need plyers, scissors and … an old cookie box. Have fun!