T420 Ultrabay CD-Slider Lock re-invented! *PICS*

[RealBlackStuff]

Many a times the CD-slider lock has gone missing in T420/T520 and similar.


Thanks to my lively fantasy, a replacement CD-slider lock was "created", using:
- a slightly modified/cut/tapered old battery slider (from a T23 [thanks Pandora]).
- a piece of plastic from the garbage (to hold the spring in place in the modded slider)
- a curtain hook I found in the garage
- a spring from a broken ballpoint


For comparison: both old and "new" sliders inside:


This is why you lose that lock.
That little tab is the only thing that holds the lock in place!
Speaking of crappy design...


For comparison: both old and "new" sliders outside:


And best of all: IT WORKS!
AND my new lock doesn't need that crappy little tab!

[Temetka]

Wow.

Nice hack there. Looks almost stock to me.

[Tasurinchi]

Very nice!!

[PandorasThinkpad]

Hey RBS!

It looks like these parts are more or less similiar...they are from the t23, from the battery mechanism of the bottom case....so if anyone has this problem you described...these parts may fit also...

The spring i have already taken out, because i needed it to fix the latch mechanism of an X200 palmrest.

Greets,

PanDorA

[Easy Wind]

And all this time I've just been harvesting the missing/busted parts from a different bottom panel (that was tossed) to fix this issue when I could have been doing this! Nice job though!!

[MikalE]

Very nice work. Where there's a will, there's a way.