Where does one get those plastic covers for the screws

[the.vert]

You know the black plastic covers that stick over the screws to make the TPs look all pretty like. I need a few because I don't like looking at the screws... nitpicky I know but I was wondering if anyone knew where to get them.

[s0larian]

the caps come with a new palm rest or M10 fan, that's what I know for sure. Probably with every spare part you have to open these screws for. I don't know if you can buy them separatly.

[Hellion Prime]

They can be had in some of the misc. parts kits. FRUs for the kits ought to be listed in the HMM for your particular model ThinkPad.

[K. Eng]

My T40 came back from the service depot missing a rubber foot, so IBM sent me a whole "Base Miscellaneous Parts" kit. According the the packing list, it is part # 13N5104.

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-46504

Included are "Screw caps (square, thin)".

IBM picked a pretty inefficient way to send the kit to me. The kit itself comes in a small ziplock bag. This bag was placed in a small cardboard box, which in turn was placed in a larger cardboard box, which in turn was finally placed with some packing materials into an even larger cardboard box. The total weight was something like 4 pounds, and I doubt the parts kit itself is more than 250 grams.

[Kyocera]

I recently orderd the screw kit for my t42, and had the same multi-box experience. It does have all the little stick on screw covers, the only screws that were not in the kit are the screws for the hard drive bracket (4). I have to say the price is very fair at $4.86 US.

[Puttagee]

IBM picked a pretty inefficient way to send the kit to me. The kit itself comes in a small ziplock bag. This bag was placed in a small cardboard box, which in turn was placed in a larger cardboard box, which in turn was finally placed with some packing materials into an even larger cardboard box. The total weight was something like 4 pounds, and I doubt the parts kit itself is more than 250 grams.

[egibbs]

IBM picked a pretty inefficient way to send the kit to me. The kit itself comes in a small ziplock bag. This bag was placed in a small cardboard box, which in turn was placed in a larger cardboard box, which in turn was finally placed with some packing materials into an even larger cardboard box. The total weight was something like 4 pounds, and I doubt the parts kit itself is more than 250 grams.

My guess would be they kept adding boxes until they found a size that didn't get lost in shipping...

Ed Gibbs

[the.vert]

Thanks for the replies guys, looks like I'll be ordering a kit