>"Dell not selling spares anymore" is not a good argument;

Humph, reminds me of when Ian R Little, the NZ agents for Nikon cameras 
refused to sell my father some spares for a camera he was repairing. They 
wanted the camera sent to them.

At that time my father was doing all the repairs for the NZ agents for Zeiss 
Ikon, and they wanted some spares for one of their models. Somehow an 
arrangement was made to sell the Nikon parts ...

Doesn't quite fit the Dell scenario, but where there is a will, there is a 
way ... 

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