From: James H. E. Maugham (CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com)
Date: Sun Jan 02 2000 - 17:47:52 EST
A drop of Loctite 242 Threadlocker will hold those screws securely and is a
_lot_ easier to find than trying to get those screw out of IBM parts.
Regards,
James the Elder
> -----Original Message-----
> From: STeve Andre' [mailto:andres_at_msu.edu] wrote:
>
> Thats probably exactly what happened. Unfortunately, now that one of those
> screws has been overtightened and eased up on, you may well have a troublesome
> spot there, in that the screw may get more loose, and things may stop working
> once again. If you can, I would find out what part number those screws are,
> and get a new set of them. Even if they aren't the "compression" type of
> screw meant to be used once, they can deform and become tiresome to deal with.
>
> STeve Andre'
> andres_at_msu.edu
>
> At 01:49 PM 1/2/2000 -0600, Brad Burean wrote:
> >I couldn't get my 560 to charge any of it's 3 batteries. Just for the fun
> >of it I decided to look and see if the area around the power connector might
> >have any damage etc. Well after finally getting the cover off, the company
> >before had tighten the screws way to tight, guess what the charger started
> >working, and 1 of my batteries took a full charge.
> >
> >My thinking is, that one of the over torqued screws must have caused a
> >short. Now everything is working perfectly. Any thoughts?
> >
> >Brad
>
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