RE: [Thinkpad] T41 Pointer Button Follow Up

Um, except that if it's a T41, it's still well within it's warrantee so it's
a free replacement, and for me, they didn't even want the old parts back.

Of course, ya do have to call a CSR department which is a painful task most
days, so point taken.

>From: thinkpad@brenart.net
>To: thinkpad@stderr.org
>Subject: [Thinkpad] T41 Pointer Button Follow Up
>Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 03:25:44 -0400
>
>
>
>Thanks for the advice given here... turns out I was too impatient to wait
>for
>anything so I just took the entire touchpad completely apart. There are
>two
>rubber nipples responsible for the lifting motion... strange design if I do
>say
>so myself. Couldn't manage to do anything to make the broken one work...
>so on
>a lark, I swapped left for right, and in that configuration they work fine.
>
>So, if anyone has the same problem, they may give that a go vs. buying the
>new
>part... it's quite the waste of parts anyway to replace so much for so
>little... at the least, you should be able to just order the nipples
>assuming
>nothing else is broken.
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