HI all. I have been admiring the work you guys have been doin for a while and i decided i beeter do my own mod. The case i am starting with is a Cooler Master Cavalier, you can see it http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811119075.
The color scheme for this mod is going to be blue and black. The outside of the case is going to be mostly blue while the inside of the case is going to be black lit up with blue lights. Well anywasy on to the worklog.
This weekend i didn't have to much time so all i wanted to do was get the top panel off. I wanted to get this off for painting, which will start in a few weeks. The reason this took effort at all it that it was riveted on. So i needed to drill out the rivits.
Never start a day of moding without a goodbreakfast .
Here is the case with The side and front panels off.
Close up of one of the rivets.
And from what i can tell there are tree in the front,
and four in the back.
After some drilling i got one of the rivets out here is a close up.
I decided i would use sheet metal screws to take place of most of the rivets.
After some more drilling i had all of the seven rivets out.
Front
and back
.
But wait when i try to lift it up it won't budge . After a bit of examining i find there are more rivets that need to be drilled out . In these pics there is a red circle around every othe rivet that had to be taken out.
Right side,
and left side.
.
I now had all the rivets off of the top so i gave it a tug and it came off.
Here is a pic of the ever stubborn top.
And the topless case.
More on this mod later,
WIWM.