Thinkpad repair?

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

I'm going to call this `on-topic' because there are so many
Thinkpads in the Linux community--and because, since our
software doesn't just spontaneously `rot', so many of us
run them until the hardware just fails irreparably. So, I'm
hoping someone can give me some helpful comments on getting
my 4-year-old Thinkpad repaired....

It's an X60 convertible tablet/laptop, and that precarious
little multidimensional swivel-hinge just went `snap'
in some way such that the screen is no longer self-supporting
at any angle less than ~60 degrees.

(and, while I'm at it, I guess I might look at fixing a few other
 issues that have accumulated over the last couple of years:
 broken palm-rest over the PC-card slot, broken HDD bay-cover,
 no-longer-functional SD/etc. memory-card port...).

Is there a local shop in/near Nashua to whom I should take this,
or am I going to have to call Lenovo? Alternately, is it
worthwhile to even consider just getting the parts and fixing
the thing myself?

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