I want to swap the side panel with an aclyics sheet. But it doing so will leave a ugly silver dempt on the top and bottom side of the pc, since the original side pane wraps around to hold itself in place. Is there a way to patch it up?
aclyics
Do you mean acrylics? or in this case acrylic?
3D printed custom designed pieces. Acrylic glue bonds well with PLA so that might work really well.
What is aclyics?
it’s like acrylics but anaerobic.
Thank you, you win the internet today.
cut the center out of the old panel and insert a plexi panel
I agree.
That is actually very smart. Should I be making the acrylics panel a few mm bigger than the hole i cut, then pressing it into the hole
Yes. I recommend gluing the acrylic to the inside of the steel panel. It’s hard to drill holes (for tiny brass bolts) that close to the edge without cracking.
Although, I suppose you could melt the holes. Carefully. Or glue magnets. Nothing in a PC these days that a magnet can hurt.
Nothing in a PC these days that a magnet can hurt.
HDDs?
The strongest magnets I own came from the inside of a platter hard drive. They’re used to control the location of the heads. Otherwise, the hard drive is shielded enough that any magnet on the outside has no effect on the platters.
I have a hard time believing this.
If so, we totally “wiped” hundreds of hard drives of useable data for a recycling center without actually wiping them. We just took a 10lb magnet and plunked it on both sides before we chucked it in a bin.
If you’re going to use a 10 pound magnet to hold acrylic in place in a computer case, there are other things to worry about.
I guess I wasn’t factoring in the context. I was just focused on the hard drives not having issues with magnets thing. But yeah in that case you’re right. And google did tell me that most modern hard drives have pretty robust protection from magnetic fields now. So you’re doubly right. TIL
I figure you have 2 main options
1 is to either cut out the sides of the old panel and reuse them there or to fabricate a new part (3d printing, like someone else mentioned, might be a good choice, or maybe something you could hack together with some sheet metal or plastic and make a new piece)
- Fill it with bondo, sand it down, paint it black.
