Mysterious ThinkPad T43 Port Replicator II Part

[Cross-posting from the Accessories forum.]

Okay, I give up. What is this strange, flat, black thing that came with my ThinkPad T43 Port Replicator II?

To see it, go to http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowIm...3 - Retail. It's on the far right, next to the user's guide.

It's IBM part number 13N9421. I could find no reference to it on the Web or IBM site, and there is no reference to it in the user's guide.

Thanks for the help. Looks like I'm a DF.

 

I can't see it. The link isn't working.

But it could be something that you may need to put between the laptop and the port replicator .. ??

Post an image we'll see !

 

Sorry about that link. Here's a good one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Showi...9.jpg&CurImage=34-998-902-09.jpg&Description=.

Mystery solved, though. A gentlman named Bill from the thinkpad.com forum gave me the answer:

"It's a positiong template to stick one of the included "arrowhead" stickers on the back of the "lid" of a Thinkpad if you need it. When the arrowhead on the closed ThinkPad screen/lid is aligned with a similar mark on the dock, the Thinkpad is correctly aligned for docking.

Most, but not all, T4x ThinkPad models come with a small arrowhead permanently etched into the lid, but I personally had a T41 which didn't, and needed the sticker applied, using the template."

What bugs me most is that this official IBM part-numbered part is not in their database (at least as far as I know). I pride myself in being able to put together just about anything without reading the manual, but this thing stumped me from the get-go.

So now we know!

 

so that is what the arrowhead on the lid is for.