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What's this?

#1 Post by Slonskiy » Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:01 pm

Hi everyone. My name is Mickey and i'm new to this forum.

I opened up my ThinkPad R40 today and I found a little peice of metal that had a 90 degree bend in it and I don't know what this is or where it goes.

I took pictures of it. Sorry about the picture quality of the photos (I took these with my webcam):
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u234 ... ture13.jpg
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u234 ... ture14.jpg
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u234 ... ture15.jpg

Can anyone please tell me what it is? And more importantly, where it goes? Thanks. :)
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#2 Post by Asbradley21 » Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:57 pm

Slonskiy wrote:Hi everyone. My name is Mickey and i'm new to this forum.

I opened up my ThinkPad R40 today and I found a little peice of metal that had a 90 degree bend in it and I don't know what this is or where it goes.

I took pictures of it. Sorry about the picture quality of the photos (I took these with my webcam):
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u234 ... ture13.jpg
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u234 ... ture14.jpg
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u234 ... ture15.jpg

Can anyone please tell me what it is? And more importantly, where it goes? Thanks. :)
I pulled one of those just like it out of my fan a few months ago, no clue what it is, but it hasn't caused any problems.
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#3 Post by sausage888 » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:14 am

I think it is the LCD switch which turns the LCD off when the top closes. There should be a little black button close to the hinge on the bezel cover. Maybe it is just a hole now.

I knocked mine off by accident taking the bezel cover on and off. It was held on by two tiny little plastic clips and one of them broke off. I ended up glueing mine back on with Crazy Glue.
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#4 Post by Asbradley21 » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:16 am

sausage888 wrote:I think it is the LCD switch which turns the LCD off when the top closes. There should be a little black button close to the hinge on the bezel cover. Maybe it is just a hole now.

I knocked mine off by accident taking the bezel cover on and off. It was held on by two tiny little plastic clips and one of them broke off. I ended up glueing mine back on with Crazy Glue.
Hmmm, my LCD switch still works.
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#5 Post by Chris001 » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:39 pm

It's the LCD switch lever which turns the LCD off when the top closes.
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#6 Post by Asbradley21 » Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:39 pm

Eh, I wonder what the hell I pulled out then was....
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