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Wheres a good place to buy IBM parts, aside from IBM Parts? Or are they the best price wise?

I need

Keyboard Bezel Assembly 45M2656
Base Cover Assembly 60Y4868
Palm Rest Assembly w/ FPR 75Y5573
Misc. Hard Disk Drive Cover Assembly 45M2671

I can get all those from IBM parts for around 250 or so.

Are there any completely dead T400s' out there that would like to be parted out?

I dropped it on bathroom tile from about 4 -5 feet. Hit the front left corner screen side down. Bent palmrest and it broke on the left edge/seam, bent the roll cage and chipped off a piece, snapped hdd bay cover (have no idea how), put a crack in base on the bottom, and if you look on the side it's missing a chunk. Mechanically its fine, turns on, I'm using it now. Screen survived!! The worst part is that it put a dent in my SSD casing since that's so intelligently placed in the corner. That's more expensive than the rest of the [censored] parts I need...Grrrrr. Time for that 80 GB to 160GB upgrade I wanted...

Any help sourcing parts?

1) Put a Want ad in the forum's Market Place...

2) Ebay...

If you are patient enough you can proably fine a T400 with a bad screen or dead motherboard, or both, to salvage parts from. Or just source the broken parts alone. I think you can get what you need using good used parts for less than half of the price from Lenovo.