u/Performer-Pants

Saw a post about these, and got curious. Then a seller marked down this one by 2/3 and I got myself a bargain.

I’m glad I paid what I did, as it needs some work. The cracked button was clearly shown, though it’s obvious there’s some other button damage (this thing rattles). I’m confident it’s just brittle plastic damage, which I can patch up and fix.

Had anyone replaced bearings in one of these? Movement is fluid, but it drags a lot more than my usual choice (protoarc). Two of the bearings are fairly worn though I suspect it would be a pain in the dick to remove these to replace them. I’d love to be wrong though!

Wanted it to go with my two IBM thinkpads, especially as one only has PS/2 ports and no usb.

Had corrosion damage from a leaking bridge battery, which killed the inverter and the ccfl was dead. Managed to get a replacement oem inverter from a similar model, but the ccfl in that one is about to die.

Got a cheap led backlight kit, did a shite job replacing the dead ccfl with leds. The inverter with the kit isn’t compatible (wacom power supply is on the same pcb)

Fuck it, external power. (Until I replace the display)

I’d posted my pride and joy elsewhere first, and enjoyed all the LGR references, and this subreddit happened to pop up on my feed.

Long time watcher and enjoyer, and also a fellow enjoyer of woodgrain on tech.

This wrap was to cover a very bad job of trying to remove soft touch coating, though it would likely have ended up with this wrap anyway…

No wrap on the palm rest, as I’d rather keep the main meat of this thing as free of heat-trapping plastic as possible. Pentium M’s are toasty boys. Considering upgrading the 750 up to the 770 or 780? Still haven’t decided yet. This T43 is very loved regardless.

I made the bag for it, and am yet to add an IBM logo to it and maybe add another layer internally to give it more structure (I was being lazy, my other laptop bags have this).Thinking either heat transfer vinyl or computerised embroidery for the logo, I have machines for both processes :)