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  • If you still have the T40..

    From August Abolins@2:221/360 to Kurt Weiske on Sun Jan 12 05:40:19 2020
    On 1/10/2020 10:13 AM, between "Kurt Weiske : August Abolins":

    If you still have the T40, it might be a good learning
    experience to take it apart. IBM has great hardware manuals
    with instructions, and they're easy to work on. 15 minutes,
    8 screws, a can of air and a drop of oil might get it up and
    running...

    Yes, I still have the T40. Infact, I ordered a new palmrest for it when
    I accidentally cracked the bottom right corner of the laptop, about 8
    years ago. I've had the T40 open a few times. Meanwhile, I've misplaced
    the replacement palmrest. It has a genuine OEM 9-cell battery. I ready
    to work on it.. if only I could find the palmrest. :(

    The fan probably needs complete replacement. But I can get it going by
    forcing air into the exhaust to spin the blades *before* powering it up.

    I'd like to retire the machine as a off-line storage Spotify player
    connected to my hifi.

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to August Abolins on Sun Jan 12 09:35:27 2020
    Re: If you still have the T40..
    By: August Abolins to Kurt Weiske on Sun Jan 12 2020 05:40:19


    The fan probably needs complete replacement. But I can get it going
    by forcing air into the exhaust to spin the blades *before* powering
    it up.

    FWIW: be careful doing that... compressed air can spin the fan faster than it is designed for which can lead to the metal shaft heating and wearing out the nylon bearing which will lead to more problems... when we blow our fans out, we make sure to hold them somehow to prevent them from spinning up so as to avoid this...


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  • From August Abolins@2:221/360 to mark lewis on Mon Jan 13 01:44:28 2020
    On 1/12/2020 9:35 AM, between "mark lewis : August Abolins":

    The fan probably needs complete replacement. But I can get
    it going by forcing air into the exhaust to spin the blades
    *before* powering it up.

    FWIW: be careful doing that... compressed air can spin the
    fan faster than it is designed for which can lead to the
    metal shaft heating and wearing out the nylon bearing which
    will lead to more problems... when we blow our fans out, we
    make sure to hold them somehow to prevent them from spinning
    up so as to avoid this...

    I hear ya. I am aware of the damage compressed air can do when causing over-spin. I use human power. ;) In my case, the fan *has* to spin a
    bit or it won't boot. It doesn't really need much. In fact, after
    bootup, when the computer is still cold, the fan doesn't spin at all.
    The trick is to loosen up the fan enough to pass the fan-spin check
    during the first few seconds at bootup. Ideally, it would be nice to
    replace the fan. But it would also be nice if I could find the palmrest
    that I ordered years ago. :( Then, I could do both replacements at the
    same time.

    ../|ug

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