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The Back-Story: How I got into
the screw business
Dateline: July, 2004 - Occasional
PalmOS application developer, Carmine Castiglia, sees a problem
and decides to find a solution.
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July 23, 2004, the only place on the
World Wide Web to buy exact replacement
screws for your palmOne Tungstenâ„¢ T,
T2, or T3! |
Okay, this is a bit
silly, but it has come to my attention that
a number of palmOneTM TungstenTM T, T2, & T3 users
have loose screws. No, the PDA's, not
the users! :)
So loose, in fact, that they are dropping out
and disappearing to that place where tiny things
go, wherever that may be...
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Two screws
seen on the side of my TungstenTM T3. There are two more on the
other side. |
A screw and
a machinist's scale. The distance
between graduations on the scale is
1/16 inch. |
Always willing to
do my part for my fellow man, I have managed
to pick up a large supply of these screws.
I will gladly mail them to anyone who wants
them for just
US$X.XX for a package
of four or US$X.XX each for 2 or more
packs. Price includes free shipping for up
to 5 packs to any location in the US; add
just US$0.XX additional postage for
shipments to Canada & Mexico, just US$0.XX
everywhere else.
(This page is no longer maintained, so I
have struck the price info from this
historical document.
Click here for current info. - Carmine)
A note about this product:
Effective July 23, 2004, the screws which I
am offering for sale are exact replacements
for the factory originals. They are
not the poorly fitting #0-80
x 1/8 long screws often recommended as replacements.
Though I did sell #0-80's myself for approximately
a one week period, I put enormous effort and
time into locating a source for the proper screw.
Frankly, I don't know that anyone without a
strong manufacturing background and access to
precision measuring equipment and international
specifications would have been able to pull
it off. Perhaps that is why, as of July
23, 2004, this site is the only
place on the world wide web which is selling
these exact replacement screws.
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My TungstenTM
T3 with two #0-80 x 1/8" screws often
recommended as replacements. Note
that the heads of the screws protrude
above the case surface. |
The same TungstenTM
T3 with one factory original and one
of my new exact replacement screws.
Both screws seat fully within the countersink
as they are supposed to. Can you
tell which is which?
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In order to make these
screws available to you, I had to purchase a
significant quantity - okay, I bought 5,000
of them. Really. I will need to
sell at least a few hundred orders before I
turn a net profit. Whatever you do, don't
let my wife find out. <g>
I hope that all palmOne
Tungsten T, T2, & T3 owners will continue to
support my efforts to make these screws available
at a time when palmOne was shrugging their collective
shoulders and suggesting that you should pay
a $125 repair or exchange fee as their only
solution to the missing screw problem.
Hopefully, I will eventually recover my costs
and turn a small profit but I suspect that some
time in the distant future when I am long gone,
my as yet unborn grandchildren will be putzing
around in my basement when one of them will
yelp and say, "Wow, look at all of these tiny
screws! What was grandpa going to do with
them?"
Update, September
13, 2004 - I note that at least one of the "big"
pda parts suppliers is now selling a set of
screws (four slider screws plus two case back
screws) for $7.99 plus $5.95 for "standard"
shipping. Yikes!
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