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Thinkpad T20 Latch Springs

Posted September 29th, 2006 in Hardware by erich

One of the tiny little springs in the screen latches that hold my T20 closed gave out the other day, and the latch was basically useless and stuck open. So the ol’ T20 would wake up from sleep in my briefcase, because it would open up just enough when bouncing around to think I had opened the screen. *sigh*

Luckily, it was easy enough to find the maintenance manual for it, so that I could take it apart. And a simple ballpoint pen spring, cut in half, was a perfect upgrade to the crappy little springs that were in there.

I love it when I can fix something physical about a computer, instead of having to unscrew winders yet again :-)

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