From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Tue Jan 04 2000 - 19:37:34 EST
screws are available from ibm, but they come as a kit of small parts..
"James H. E. Maugham" wrote:
> 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
> >
-- Happy trails...** Bill Morrow ** :-) WEB page http://thinkpads.com e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_icanect.net
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