Contact at Lenovo?

[chris_uk]

Hi,

 

Does anybody have any sort of contact at Lenovo that is a human being that is knowledgeable about the products that they sell? After buying 500 workstations from them last year I'm now after some additional thumb screws for the vesa mount for the M73 tiny.

 

Anybody who I have spoken to doesn't have a clue what I am talking about and I'm getting passed from pillar to post. Even my re seller can't get any information from Lenovo on it. Standard thumb screws don't fit as it would appear to be a different size thread than a normal PC thumb screw.

 

Thanks

Chris

[Greycourt]

Chris,

 

We have the same model, the thumbscrews are standard m3 size screws, any hardware shop will supply them.

[LincolnE]

Hi Chris. We've recently put 400 of the M73 tiny machines over our sites during the summer. We've since gone round and replaced the thumb screws for screwing into the vesa mount with security torque screws to prevent people pulling these out. (The thumb screws were seen to be too easy).

 

Anyway, the replacement screws we used were normal M3x6 standard screw size. Unsure if you can find replacement thumb screws in this size, but you should be able to get other types of screws from many places.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Cheers

Kevin Lincoln

[chris_uk]

Should have come here rather than bothering with Lenovo! @LincolnK do you have a link to the security screws that you purchased?

Thanks @Greycourt for replying.

[LincolnE]

1961030006071DO - NETTLEFOLDS - TORX SCREWS M3 X 6MM | CPC

 

These are the ones we bought. You'll need a Torx screwdriver to screw these in, but it does mean that these is less chance of a kid undoing it, preventing the spur of the moment thefts. (Edit: It seems the one we got are just normal torx, rather than the security one with the pin. Still good for our use, however)

Edited January 13, 2015 by LincolnE

[Steve21]

Sorry to kinda side step in here What mounts/monitors you guys using for those?

 

Looking at our replacement plan models and been considering trying Lenovo.

 

Steve

[Dos_Box]

We currently have ThinkLogic sponsoring: https://www.thinklogic.co.uk/industry-resellers/education

They are a Lenovo reseller and may be able to help try PM'ing @ThinkLogic and see if they can locate them for you.

[chris_uk]

Off to go and buy 1000 of these screws! Thanks for the link @LincolnK. Out of interest what spec did you go for? Have you had many problems with them? We have had a few keyboards that have just stopped working for no reason.

[chris_uk]

Sorry to kinda side step in here What mounts/monitors you guys using for those?

 

Looking at our replacement plan models and been considering trying Lenovo.

 

Steve

@Steve21 We have a VESA Mount

 

PC

 

 

VESA Mount

 

 

Screws that the students take

 

 

PC in VESA Mount

 

 

PC Attached to Screen

 

[LincolnE]

Sorry to kinda side step in here What mounts/monitors you guys using for those?

We've got BenQ GL2250's here. We did have to buy new screws to get them on the back of the monitor (M4x10), but the monitors themselves were cheap and had what we needed in terms of inputs. VGA/HDMI/DVI for video as well as audio in/out.

 

Off to go and buy 1000 of these screws! Thanks for the link @LincolnK. Out of interest what spec did you go for? Have you had many problems with them? We have had a few keyboards that have just stopped working for no reason.

 

We've had no real problems with these, I must admit. We got our machines with decent specs from @Millgate. i3 4130T, 4GB ram and 128gb ssd. These seem to be good enough for student use, even when our media students are using photoshop and premiere pro.