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                       Getting with the repair culture

[The Work Desk] [1] [2] For the past few months the cord was getting more and
more touchy and the slightest movement of the laptop would cause it to come
loose and stop supplying power. Yesterday, it finally gave out. Wlofie [3]
said that he would be happy to help fix the cord, so we went to Radio Shack
[4] to pick up a new tip for the cord, as well as some shrink tubing and glue
sticks.

We had the old end with us in the store and I picked what appeared to the
correct power tip to use, but when we got home, the tip turned out to be too
small to use. To today, I went back to Radio Shack, taking both the non-
fitting tip and my laptop so I could try various tips to see which one would
fit.

[The New Cord] [5] [6] Upon returning home with a tip that fits, Wlofie then
spent the next half our or so soldering the new tip, and using the shrink
tube and glue stick to make sure the new end would remain solid. The
resulting job, I think, was quite well done; Wlofie, however, feels as if he
could have done a much better job.

Now to get with my source of ThinkPad parts and see if I can't get a
replacement power cord.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2004/06/18/thumb.desk.jpg
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2004/06/18/desk.jpg
[3] http://wlofie.dyndns.org/
[4] http://www.radioshack.com/
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2004/06/18/thumb.new.cord.jpg
[6] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2004/06/18/new.cord.jpg

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