Minidock and t43: inclined diffrently, no mid support.

[thinkpad4ever]

My thinkpad mini dock don't lay flat entirely on the bottom of my t43. i peek on the side while t43 is on dock i notice those two minidock rubber inserts are way too far to support the mid-point of the bottom of t43, this might cause t43 to flex due to it's own weight ovetime.the gap is about .245" . right now i just leave the two pieces of steel block gages right there as a temporary support till i have time to grind a steel stock as a permanent support. Anybody else here notice those gap between thinkpad and docks?

[Rory]

Read through the thread I started off, especially the last few posts:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=24217

I returned a mini-dock that might not have actually been faulty because the fit is so bad.

One thing I found (from the video that one poster refers to) is to push down quite firmly on the back-centre of the laptop to push it down onto the connector.

My new one works fine, but I still think the whole thing is a bit flimsy, mechanically.

[thinkpad4ever]

I read you, this is my second minidock, the first one too have connection problem. my dvd drive won't fit right in, they sent me replacement twice but still won't fit in. it keeps on popping out. so i just put a duct tape to hold it shut. but the duct tape color is off, anyone here know where to find a black duct tapes?