As Promised - Laptop Dismantle Begins

Here you see a perfectly good, working, Laptop computer:



Shortly thereafter, the first major removal piece -- the keyboard assembly:

The battery, CDROM, and Keyboard are gone -- maybe I had better pause here and see if it will still run.

Hardware Maintenence manuals, Technical Service manuals, and User Guides for the Thinkpad 600 are available in PDF format for download from the IBM site. These manuals layout pretty well how to dismantle the laptop. Removal of the keyboard assembly was pretty straight forward. You must take care when removing the ribbon cables for the keyboard and speakers which attach to the system board. These cables are pretty fragile - just take care.