Printing a replacement case for the ThinkPad 701c

Even among ThinkPad, which are almost universally love by material the Pirates And Linux handymen look alike, THE 701c East A particularly rare And desirable machine. Best known For It is "butterfly" slide out keyboard, THE Designed by IBM subnotebook Since THE mid-1990s has won A following all It is own, with active efforts has repair And restore any of them survivor specimens always out In THE wild.

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Printing a replacement case for the ThinkPad 701c

Even among ThinkPad, which are almost universally love by material the Pirates And Linux handymen look alike, THE 701c East A particularly rare And desirable machine. Best known For It is "butterfly" slide out keyboard, THE Designed by IBM subnotebook Since THE mid-1990s has won A following all It is own, with active efforts has repair And restore any of them survivor specimens always out In THE wild.

[polymat] has Already taken on A number of 701c restoration projects, but THE recent release of A 3D printable case For THE ancient laptop East questionably THE most impressive has date. After expenses A unspeakable number of hours with A original case And A pair of stirrups, THE final design has has been released below THE Creative Communal room Attribution – Non-Commercial Licence — In other words, You are free has to print A has spruce up your 701c, but don't do it run disabled A stack of them And to start trying has move them on Etsy.

Originally, [polymat] just research has 3D to print A replacement For THE laptop display facet. But as often arrived with these sort of projects, things just sort of begin rolling And pretty Soon THE entire case was modeled. As You could imagine, THE printed case has a few light differences between THE original. For example, THE printed version East designed has to use heat together inserts. There is Also certain Components, such as THE hinges, which need has be coming from Since A original case.

THE most obvious to use of these files East has perform repairs — if A piece of your 701c case has broken, You could be able has to use A of these files has create A replacement. But he Also offers a few fascinating possibilities For future modifications. If You were planning on replace THE internal components of THE 701c with something more modern, these files would be TO DO A excellent departure indicate has create A personalized case has better adjust more modern components.

Never mind You END up TO DO with these files, don't do it be shy — to leave We know.

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