My mum accidentally hoovered up the plastic cylinder in the centre of the power jack on my laptop, exposing the 2 pins inside and stopping my power supply from plugging in.(Attached is an image of a laptop with similar problem, although the plastic centre in mine is completely missing with no broken plastic remaining http://www.efemt.com.au/images/cms/brokensony.jpg). Repair shop quoted me £120 +VAT to replace the entire jack, which I definitely cannot afford! I could buy a replacement part but wouldn't be comfortable dismantling and repairing the laptop myself.
What I'd like to know is whether there is any way of externally repairing the jack. If I bought a new jack, could I pull out the centre and put it into the existing one? Or is that just stupid?
Any thoughts welcome! Thanks.
