Subj : Re: recommend good pwr'd
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Brian Rogers
Date : Fri May 14 2021 09:48 am

-=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Brian Rogers <=-

 pF> The 4x series Thinkpads are easy to work on and easy to find parts on
 pF> eBay - and the repair manuals are online showing you exactly how to
 pF> disassemble/assemble them. I ran a T42 until just recently and had
 pF> replaced the wrist wrest, trackpad and fan over the years.

I had a T-series, can't recall the specific model number. I do recall for
the time I had it, it was decent.

 pF> If you're the least bit handy, you could open one up, blow the dust out
 pF> of the fan and the heat sink assembly, remove the sink and replace the
 pF> thermal grease on the CPU in about a half an hour. I fixed my noisy fan
 pF> with a drop of 3-in-1 oil on the spindle and replaced the 10+ year old
 pF> grease, and the fan ran less (and ran more quietly) as a result.

I can open these up and replace the bios battery in a matter of minutes. 
Typically I do what you do as long as the fan isn't thin plastic, and that
the spindle area hasn't cracked from getting overheated. If that's true then
a touch of grease and a bit of oil in the spindle typically helps as you say.

 pF> The R is the big, heavy desktop replacement model, isn't it? Huge power
 pF> brick and a desktop-class CPU? That should be even easier to work on.

Not at all. The CPU is a mobile celeron, and the power is a thin brick not a
huge one. The older models had the big brick power converters, even the T
series. 

.... MultiMail, the new multi-platform, multi-format offline reader!
--- MultiMail/Linux v0.52
 þ Synchronet þ SBBS - Carnage! Get your bytes revived here.

.