WTB: 701c batteries and other parts.

[TrowaBarton]

Also if anyone has any case parts, a little refurb action wouldn't hurt the machine... bottom bezel is starting to crumbling 04H8335 and the front bezel 04H8332 has some cracks in it. Neither are big deals I can likely repair the damage with glue. Front cover 04H8332 would be amazing as this is cracked on the right side and I had to remove the wiring guide for the microphone/lcd power cables.


Update: I tried ACS, they sent me a cracked bottom bezel, I bought a top I/O board and its contacts look good, but still corrosion to clean up from the standby battery, once cleaned it worked fine.

I impulse bought a 701cs to see if I could swap anything from it or just fix it up and flip it, it needed a new CMOS and that's good now, its missing a couple keys (left Shift, right Alt)

Its top board also had standby battery corrosion but was good enough to confirm that my rebuilt battery pack kinda sorta works... machine gets powered up but the status is 0% and Charging (even with no charger plugged in). I'm guessing the controller in the battery may be dead, if anyone has some 701 batteries I can dismember that'd be great.

Update: I pulled the controller chip out of the CS's battery and soldered it into my rebuilt pack and its working 100% now, I get up to 2 hours of battery life! Would still like a battery so that I can rebuild the cs's in attempts to sell it fully functioning.

[BillMorrow]

I have lots of 701C thinkpads.. about 8 remaining.. ranging from 1 to 9.5.. I even just found a pcmcia cover with the engraved name plate of a former IBM employee and current Lenovo employee..
also have some non-leaking NOS NiCad batteries including the soft case..
also NOS keyboards and system boards..

PM if you want to discuss further..