[ltp] Re: Vendors for LCD replacement?

[Alejandro Bonilla]

Chris Chiappa wrote:

>[ Replies to a couple of people mixed in ]
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>>Maybe try Ebay. I bought mine for a Dell there. I guess the worst thing 
>>that could happen, is that you don't get the ThinkLight working...
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>Yah, I grovelled around there for a bit but don't seem to see this
>particular part.
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>>>       This is another reason why I also added Thinkpad Protection 
>>>(TPP) when I bought my T42p. It covers exactly these kinds of things, 
>>>and over the $3,000 purchase price, the extra $153.00 was negligible.
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>I was interested in adding this, but from what I could see, they only sell
>this for business-use laptops.  I couldn't come up with any way to
>rationalize this as anything but a personal machine, so I didn't get the
>protection.
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>>>       But in your case, I'd explore finding someone who works for 
>>>IBM and see if their EPP (Employee Purchase Price) can get it low 
>>>enough to swallow.
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>This was in fact an EPP laptop, but poking around the site I don't see an
>obvious way to order FRUs with the discount.
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>>>       Another option of course is to find a "junker" T42 for sale on 
>>>ebay for parts, with a working LCD (lots of sellers buy these up, take 
>>>all the parts out and sell them separately at greater overall profit).
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>Right, I've poked around for both used and spare parts but don't seem to see
>the proper piece for the T42.
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>>>       Call IBM (assuming you bought it from them) and ask them if 
>>>you can add TPP to your existing warrantee, then see if they'll cover 
>>>that cracked LCD.
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>>Isn't that sort of like taking out insurance, after your home has burned 
>>down?
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>Yah, not the type of thing I would do.  I accept that it's my fault and I'll
>have to pony up for it, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to look for a
>good deal. :)  The $375 I see from idparts.com is really not so bad so I'll
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$375 is really not bad at all if it's a new LCD. My Dell's which was 
actually an old Dell was $210 14"

>probably end up getting that and replacing it myself, but I figured it was
>worth seeing if I was overlooking anything obvious first.
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>Thanks for the advice.
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