I don't know of any local repair shops but there's a guy in Bow who knows all about them and can advise.
Email him.
He also can sell discounted new/returned computers under certain circumstances.
If you go this route, check the price he offers against the web site.
He quotes a huge discount but sometimes the web site has a discount, too, and the web site is only $200 or so over his price.
d...@syntegratech.com
D. Mark Read
President SyntegraTech Inc. 722 Route 3A Suite #1 Bow, New Hampshire 03304 TEL - (603) 225-4008 FAX - (603) 225-4908 www.syntegratech.com
-----Original Message-----
>From: Greg Kettmann
>Sent: Oct 15, 2011 7:14 AM
>To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
>Subject: Re: Thinkpad repair?
>
>I worked for IBM for 30 years and started in service. My family has
>many Thankpads. With appropriate parts I do repairs myself.
>
>Two things.
>
>1) Parts are usually prohibitively expensive. You can often do web
>searches and find discount parts but that's hit or miss.
>
>2) Lenovo seems to still use all the IBM paradigms. They will have an
>HMM or Hardware Maintenance Manual available online. Typically this is
>a PDF file. (Google - lenovo x60 hmm). Using the HMM you can identify
>the failing part and the replacement procedure. Searching on that part
>number will help find a source to acquire it. You typically want the
>FRU, or Field Replaceable Unit, number since there will be two listed.
>
>Hopefully someone else on the list can speak up if there is a local
>repair shop.
>
>GGK
>
>On 10/14/2011 11:51 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
>> I'm going to call this `on-topic' because there are so many
>> Thinkpads in the Linux community--and because, since our
>> software doesn't just spontaneously `rot', so many of us
>> run them until the hardware just fails irreparably. So, I'm
>> hoping someone can give me some helpful comments on getting
>> my 4-year-old Thinkpad repaired....
>>
>> It's an X60 convertible tablet/laptop, and that precarious
>> little multidimensional swivel-hinge just went `snap'
>> in some way such that the screen is no longer self-supporting
>> at any angle less than ~60 degrees.
>>
>> (and, while I'm at it, I guess I might look at fixing a few other
>> issues that have accumulated over the last couple of years:
>> broken palm-rest over the PC-card slot, broken HDD bay-cover,
>> no-longer-functional SD/etc. memory-card port...).
>>
>> Is there a local shop in/near Nashua to whom I should take this,
>> or am I going to have to call Lenovo? Alternately, is it
>> worthwhile to even consider just getting the parts and fixing
>> the thing myself?
>>
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