T42 Screw Question

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Leon · #1 Post by **Leon** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:57 am

On the bottom of my T42, just below the left 1/4 of the Type/SN Number Label are two holes, presumably for screws. One is marked for a #4 screw, but the other hole, just a little higher and a little to the right of the one marked #4, has no mark, and no screw. Should there be a screw here? If so, what size and what does it attach to? If not, what is it for?

#2 Post by **jdhurst** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:19 am

My T41 has that hole, but there is definitely no pointer to it. The pointer for the Number 4 screw points to a screw securing the palm rest. I don't know what the hole is for. (I think 4 denotes the palm rest screws; 3 denotes the keyboard screws) ... JD Hurst

Leon · #3 Post by **Leon** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:23 am

hmmmm.... a mysterious hole of no apparent use..... interesting.........

mattfromomaha · #4 Post by **mattfromomaha** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:19 pm

It's the drain hole...

AbsoluteRaleigh · #5 Post by **AbsoluteRaleigh** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:58 pm

Leon wrote:On the bottom of my T42, just below the left 1/4 of the Type/SN Number Label are two holes, presumably for screws. One is marked for a #4 screw, but the other hole, just a little higher and a little to the right of the one marked #4, has no mark, and no screw. Should there be a screw here? If so, what size and what does it attach to? If not, what is it for?

No screw belongs there...

See the little hollow cylinder thing in there? It runs up about a half inch. There is no threading in it. If you poke something in there you will hit the bottom of the front keyboard bezel. The cyclinder is attached to another peice of plastic.

I can't think of any use for it at all. Who knows why they added it...

As for the front bezel, it is held in by screws 1, 2, 4.

Leon · #6 Post by **Leon** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:40 pm

Thanks, Len, for the comprehensive answerer ...not like IBM to spend $ in a design making a hole of no use.... the mystery remains.....

#7 Post by **JaneL** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:27 pm

Probably some crucial component of the cooling system! ;-)

schUsseln · #8 Post by **schUsseln** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:21 am

so, I, um, "had cause" to find out what that hole is all about this afternoon.

And on my 15in, the tube is just a bit of plastic, that appears to serve no purpose, being connected to a chunk of the bezel.

I was thinking maybe it's an alignment thing, like a rod that goes through the casing, to get the nearby screw-hole lined up.

So don't fret if you jam something (like the nearby screw) in there on accident...

Leon · #9 Post by **Leon** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:58 am

yeah, but they could make the post without the hole... so it's still a "screwy mystery".....

WJB · #10 Post by **WJB** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:09 pm

are those 1234 screws available at retail sale BTW? I crumbled one of them once it got stuck inside and I pushed too hard with the screwdriver.

Leon · #11 Post by **Leon** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:36 pm

not sure... available as a "screw kit" (which is what they do to you on the shipping

), but if you bring it to a Home Depot, maybe they can match it....

#12 Post by **JaneL** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:09 pm

>available as a "screw kit" (which is what they do to you on the shipping
>

Well, they have to make up for all the returns for a single dead pixel somehow! ;-)

#13 Post by **aamsel** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:01 am

My guess is that the hole was in the final spec received by whatever IBM mechanical engineers did the tooling for the case. For whatever reason, it ended up not being needed, but was not significant enough to warrant re-tooling the case molds, which by then had been cast. They probably had plenty of these case molds made, and they were expensive enough that they didn't want to redo them.
Just a guess.

Andrew
Austin, TX

nonny wrote:>available as a "screw kit" (which is what they do to you on the shipping
>

Well, they have to make up for all the returns for a single dead pixel somehow!

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