moddin my case

[Avid6eek]

<br><br><< <i><< <i>I was thinking magnents. Velcro is a good idea too, but I think magnents are thinner, and don't make any noise when you take the bay cover off. Just make sure not to get them anywhere near your HD, or floppy disks.</i> >><BR>yeah, magnets and optical media ..... thats a great idea shiznit lol <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif" border="0"></i> >><br><br> Magnets don't hurt optical media. Will erase your HD, but the data on CDs is burnt in there. They don't call it burning a CD for nothing. <BR><BR>Comp. You'd use strip magnents. Attach one to your case, and one to the bay cover, and they stick together.

[CompSnake]

for those of you who dont know its this one <BR><img src="http://www.enermax.com.tw/images/cs-3061l-b3a.gif"><BR>basically what i want to do is hide my cd roms, and im not really sure how to do it<BR>what i was thinking was set them back in the case a bit more. and the put the drive bay covers back on, <BR>but i need to be able to get to my cd roms<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif" border="0"><BR>i just need help thinking of how im gonna make it so the drive bay covers will come<BR>out when i need them to.

[IOU]

That i have done <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"><BR>All you need is a lil VElcRo Accually I will Have pics soon<BR>VERY SIMIALAR CASE TOO <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif" border="0">

[CompSnake]

never thought of that, i was thinking hinges

[Avid6eek]

I was thinking magnents. Velcro is a good idea too, but I think magnents are thinner, and don't make any noise when you take the bay cover off. Just make sure not to get them anywhere near your HD, or floppy disks.

[Joe]

<br><br><< <i>I was thinking magnents. Velcro is a good idea too, but I think magnents are thinner, and don't make any noise when you take the bay cover off. Just make sure not to get them anywhere near your HD, or floppy disks.</i> >><br><br><BR><BR><BR>yeah, magnets and optical media ..... thats a great idea shiznit lol <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif" border="0">

[CompSnake]

and what are the maginets gonna stick to? my case is aluminum

[TranceJunkieXL]

I hear duck tape has a million and a half uses!!!! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"><BR>I'm not familiar with that case. Are the bay covers held in place with screws, or plastic tabs?

[GNXtreme]

I used double sided foam tape, and the end of a bic pen to activate the button.&nbsp; The foam tape has enough give to it and can be stacked up so that normally the pen does not come into contact with the open button, but a slight push on the corner of the drive bay will activate the button.&nbsp; If you like I can post some pix of how-to.

[CompSnake]

<br><br><< <i>I hear duck tape has a million and a half uses!!!! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"><BR><BR>I'm not familiar with that case. Are the bay covers held in place with screws, or plastic tabs?</i> >><br><br><BR>plastic clips

[Lakario]

<br><br><< <i>I was thinking magnents. Velcro is a good idea too, but I think magnents are thinner, and don't make any noise when you take the bay cover off. Just make sure not to get them anywhere near your HD, or floppy disks.</i> >><br><br><BR><BR>Are you high shiznitz?! Doesn't matter how far apart the hdd and cd rom drives are, never put magnets in any system. Unless of course your desire is to destroy it...

[roy]

I would suggest attatching the bay cover to the face of your CD drive. Attatch a little extra piece of plastic between the CD drive Open button and the cover, so you can just push the cover a little and it would open, cover and all.

[Avid6eek]

<BR><< <i><< <i>I was thinking magnents. Velcro is a good idea too, but I think magnents are thinner, and don't make any noise when you take the bay cover off. Just make sure not to get them anywhere near your HD, or floppy disks.</i> >><BR>Are you high shiznitz?! Doesn't matter how far apart the hdd and cd rom drives are, never put magnets in any system. Unless of course your desire is to destroy it...</i> >><BR><BR> It takes a pretty stong magnent with a good size magnetic field to erase any data on a HD when the magnent is outsdie the case. You must not understand what kind of magnents I'm talking about, or you don't understand physics. Either way, those magnents wouldn't come close to doing any damage. Half the time they don't even stick to the refrigerator. The idea of keeping all magnents away from your computer is a general rule because the average person has no idea what damage could be done. I'm assuming CompSnake knows what he's doing. When you open the C:/Windows directory do you click on 'show all files' so you can see what's in there? Clicking it so you can see everything is okay, it's another example of things to protect the average idiot from themselves.

[TranceJunkieXL]

Roy has a good idea there. I had thought of mentioning attaching them to the front of the drive itself, but couldn't figure out how to use the buttons.<BR><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

[Avid6eek]

I like Roys idea best myself. Seems like it would be the easiest to do.

[Joe]

well either way those thin strip magnets wouldnt be strong enough to really hold right. i would say double sided foam tape is the best way to go for something like this. <BR><BR>and shiznit .... cds work just like a harddrive does ... they are just a tad more robust. but they can be screwed up with magnets. any magnets that is .. not just big ones.

[CompSnake]

well i was gonna do it today, but you know.. i had to.. umm.. oh and... but theres.... im just to lazy.<BR>now i gotta go to work soon, id do it after but theres drinking that has to be done, i could do it tomorrow, but my slead does need to be fixed, errg if only i didnt work tomorrow

[FTO]

<br><br><< <i>well either way those thin strip magnets wouldnt be strong enough to really hold right. i would say double sided foam tape is the best way to go for something like this. <BR><BR><BR><BR>and shiznit .... cds work just like a harddrive does ... they are just a tad more robust. but they can be screwed up with magnets. any magnets that is .. not just big ones.</i> >><br><br><BR><BR>Unless your rubbing a CDR with ur magnet, I dont see how it will hurt a CDR.....IF your talking about the drive itself....then that's a different story...but even then, I dont think damage can be done, since you are just sticking it to the plastic part, and the magnet itself is weak....

[Polykranopalous]

hmmm could always make it like a door, that opens from the bottom up with a hinge...oh yeah now im thinking

[Avid6eek]

Preach it FTO. With those strip magnents you'd have to do a hell of a lot of rubbing before there was even the slightest chance of corruption. When I get home from work tonight I'm going to see If I can currupt a CDROM with a few mangents. I'll start using regular refrigerator magnents, and work my way up to a magnent my dad has that if you stick to something like a car, it's damn near impossible to get off. I don't think it'll even come close to harming a CDROM or a CDRW, but we'll see.

[roy]

I want one of those magnets. I'd get a metal ceiling and use it to scale my walls. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">

[TranceJunkieXL]

<br><br><< <i>I want one of those magnets. I'd get a metal ceiling and use it to scale my walls.</i> >><br><br> <BR>Roy, I'm sure velcro walls and a fuzzy sweater would work better and be a whole lot easier on the wallet.<BR>ROFLMAO!<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">

[roy]

Dude, that's brilliant!<BR><BR>I have a new life goal.

[Avid6eek]

If we were to add up all the intelligence found in this place, we'd have a whole lot of nothing <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0"> That's awsome.

[NaSTy]

<br><br><< <i>If we were to add up all the intelligence found in this place, we'd have a whole lot of nothing That's awsome. </i> >><br><br><BR><BR><BR>Hey what about me? ......Oh!

[Lakario]

My dad makes SCSI drives and let's me play with those magnets. Those things are damn near a weapon they are so powerful. If it weren't for the steel shields on the magnets, they'd destroy you.

[Avid6eek]

<br><br><< <i><< <i>If we were to add up all the intelligence found in this place, we'd have a whole lot of nothing That's awsome. </i> >><BR>Hey what about me? ......Oh!</i> >><br><br> Your factored into that equation too <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">

[CompSnake]

<br><br><< <i>My dad makes SCSI drives and let's me play with those magnets. Those things are damn near a weapon they are so powerful. If it weren't for the steel shields on the magnets, they'd destroy you.</i> >><br><br><BR>can i buy one?

[roy]

Buy an old SCSI drive and take it apart. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">

[CompSnake]

i want the maginet