I have being a happy XM5 owner until...
Yes, it finally happened, the inevitable, the left hinge started to crack. I notice it yesterday. It was very small it was starting. Sorry i didn't took the picture and i cant now you will see why in a min. So i paste this picture for reference but mine is way less just how it start.
Of course i gotta do something,
My first option,
but it actually gave me an idea, and i want to share you this guys because is very cheap.
I went to my store and bought a dark blue thread
And proceeded to wrap the hinges yes both. The idea is to provide structural support to stop the gap getting bigger. And for the second to gave it an additional support hopefully to avoid the failure.
So here is the result.
So what i did is make a wrap and then like this
As you saw in my xm5 photo i did i repeated it a lot of times, but hopefully this will keep protect the heathy hinge and reduce the gap of the other one. It does not stop the usage and almost no additional weight. Also blue is almost the same so it almost invisible.
Hope this help you if you are about to...
Cheers.