T60p disassembly - Surprises inside

[Tasurinchi]

So, finally got a replacement board for my 15.4" T60p (with ATI 256MB) that had a dead planar, scratched screen, some broken plastics, and dirt, dirt, dirt everywhere...

Errr... wait a moment!

When pulling the structure frame and mainboard, there's a (tiny) dead spider inside



And then dirt...



... and more dirt...



... and more dirt ...





and the spider again. Oh, wait! That corpse is below the transparent plastic cover So is this a 2nd spider or just the other half?



Not nice how this T60p was treated. Luckily I had a clean T61 base cover in the basement. Also the replacement board worked perfectly and then I installed a WUXGA T61p screen I had lying around. So it was a happy end and my 5th WUXGA Thinkpad

Here is she, still not complete since I need a clean palmrest and keyboard:

[Cola]

Ha, I knew it!
You must be the guy Lenovo talked about on their Facebook site.

Love the pictures, I've had one that was about as nasty. Yellow dust and hairs everywhere, and a strong scent of cigarettes. Simply disgusting..
Glad you got yours up and running again.

[Tasurinchi]

Ha, I knew it!

I've also had TP's full of hairs inside. I found that more disgusting than the spider to be honest

[thePCxp]

Nice pictures!

Not nice how this T60p was treated.

You're right about that. I don't really like it when people mistreat ThinkPads like that.

Love the pictures, I've had one that was about as nasty. Yellow dust and hairs everywhere, and a strong scent of cigarettes. Simply disgusting..

That sounds worse than what Tasurinchi experienced .

[ganon11000]

Could be worse! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/13 ... print.html