Thinkstation E31 tower: 5.25-inch optical drive bracket FRU part help

This is a message for Lenovo Technical support. For a Thinkstation E31 tower 2555/22G, I need to install a tertiary disk drive (2,5 inch SSD) into the second 5.25-inch optical drive bay that is empty. In order to do this, I need some mechanical parts mentioned in the HW maintenance manual @ chapter "Installing the tertiary hard disk drive": namely "storage converter" and "5.25-inch optical drive bracket". I tried to match these names with the names provided in the FRU parts database for E31 (document thinkstation31_tower_5_29_2012.pdf), but without success. Impossible to find out what FRU part I need to order ! I find the FRU parts description too brief and highly confusing. Could someone from Lenovo please tell me what are the FRU's part no. that I have to order ? THX in advance, your help is very much appreciated.

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