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T420 guide revisions - any new issues?

As many who have been here know, I made a set of T420 guides 8 years ago but built them spitefully to retain as many points as possible. This was a mistake; frankly, even I abandoned them to avoid the headache I made within a few years! That's in the past, though.

I had some time to rework them properly and more or less rebuilt them from scratch with the old photos, but I updated everything else. Outside of 8-year-old photos being ehh, are there any issues with the "V2" T420 guides?

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/ThinkPad+T4... - this one is new, incorporated the single photo from the admin guide as a backup visual, incorporated photo from @mkletskov's guide for reference

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/ThinkPad+T4... - reworked from scratch, switched to EET as it has all of the needed tools

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/ThinkPad+T4... - mostly uncorrected, the only change made was making the battery guide a prereq step to incorporate the changes.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/ThinkPad+T4... - reworked from scratch, switched to EET as it has all of the needed tools

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/ThinkPad+T4... - this is a "kludge" fix at most, nothing serious. I'm using this as a workaround due to the way prerequisites work here. This is a guide of need.

If there is anything I did a series of guides on I did this on and it warrants a fix, let me know. Just keep in mind I have one limitation: NO Toshiba reworks. I knew about the Admin authored battery guide but reworked mine to rebuild the guides.

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These are excellent guides, and I don't see any issues except for the ones mentioned above.

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The best thing I can do to reduce the problem is kludge it with a prereq reference. I've essentially tried that and it appears to have solved the issue. I wish there was a way to hide steps without burying them in prereqs but it's live with a weird middle step I need to put a note on, or make a prereq I am ONLY using to kludge my way out.

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Nick will be eternally grateful.