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Rivets are designed to be permanent ... you would need to drill them out, but that would probably ruin your case..
Rivets are designed to be permanent ... you would need to drill them out, but that would probably ruin your case..
Thanks guys, yeah I just read that too. Only to drill those out inside my case, is going to be alot of work. Why cant they just use screws!!
Thanks again :)
Because these components (the frame for the optical/floppy/hard drives, the various struts, etc) are designed to fit your particular case and to be permanently attached to it. Why do you wish to remove them? If you wish to refit these components after removing, you will either have to use replacement pop-rivets (recommended) or else ordinary machine nuts and bolts (in which case you need to check that the screw doesn't interfere with anything).
Well the top of the case is bolted down or should i say 'riveted down' :) I just wanted to be able to remove the powerbox upward without taking off the cpu fan.
Secondly this case has a really idiotic design. It fits 2 harddisks really close to each other, so the heat build up is really hot. Speedfan reads the harddisks at around 50C sometimes. The problem is I cannot remove one of the harddisks (the one that came with the pc), without removing the rivets in the front of the case. Does that make sense? You see they secured the hard disk with 4 screws. 2 on each side. I can take 2 off but the other 2 are hidden behind the riveted grill.
So I can only remove the hard disk I put in there. I was thinking of putting them under the DVD drive for better cooling. Oh well..
EDIT: Missed the whole second page. (Oops.) But if you haven't done any drilling yet:
And if you're going to drill them out, please make sure that you take all of the electronic items out of the case before you do it. When you have them all removed, use some compressed air, and blow out all of the little pieces of metal from the case before you put the guts back in.
hey,
trust me I'm not... I did before posting here and more than once too.
hi mellonhead,
Yes I know that, which is why I said its alot of work. No I'm not going to bother to drill them out. I'm not that patient when it comes to things like this.