![]() Sorry, I won't be posting very frequently, like I said, this will be a slow evolution and maybe a little bit chaotic. I think it is the best case design they have ever done. I have never had a Mac or anything from Apple but I have always liked the elegant and timeless design of these cases (G3, G4). I have read many build logs here and on other forums and also watched quite a few Youtube videos so I am not going into this totally unprepared. I am in a process of slowly modding a PowerMac G4 Quicksilver case to accept an mATX board. I am still going to try and make it look good. I have a very low budget for this and I don't even have a dremel. Unfortunately it won't be anything fancy. Plus ill add more pics when i get to taking them.Hi, this is my first serious case/PC mod. Ive still got alot to do on this case and i still dont know what im doing with it so im up for suggestions. then i proceeded to take off the front plastics so i dont scratch it. I did it! all in about 2 hours total work time. sat back and admired it for a long while. grabbed the front plastics again and attached it. grabbed an old cd burner and placed it in the drive cage and then attached it to its new home. placed in some case screws to holed it in place. Attached the drive cage and then too the support and placed it accordingly so it would have a nice solid fit. (its squareish with two holes for drive support) now take my nibblers again and detach the support for the drive cage from the main support beam for the case. Attached the drive assembly to the case with its four screws. left the drive door assembly in place now i take the drive cage support and place it behind the door assembly and mark and drill the corresponding support holes. now took off the front plastics again and set it aside. Now to make sure it all aligns right and fits tightly.Īttached the door assembly to its new home on the bottom and the carefully attached the front plastics.Woohoo! fit on the first try! With the cutout still in place i then took out my drill and a small pilot bit and drilled out all the corresponding holes to hold the cd door assembly. As soon as i got it all roughed out i then took my dremel and a grinding bit and did the final smoothing and shaving down the sharp edges. That was the hardest part, at least on my hands. Next took out my trusty sheet metal nibblers and proceeded to nibble away at the hole. Broke out my sharpie then marked out the inside of the cutout. Then i aligned my cutout under the plastics and between the case so i can tape it in place. Next i grabbed the front panel plastics and flipped it and placed it on top the case and measured and filed the cd drive opening a tiny bit so the speaker slid in nicely with out scratching. traced the opening for the drive door and the holes. ![]() First i find myself some clear plastic (a box the held my thermal controller worked perfectly). drilled out the rivets then broke off the remains. ground off the logicboard standoffs from the back then pulled them out the front with some pliers. ![]() Then i assessed the drive door (the one the logicboard sits): Next i dissasembled the drive cage and drive door assembly. Original Pic if you dont remember what the quicksilver looks likeįirst off i Stripped the case of its plastics, All of it, took awhile but its worth not scratching it up. (i can get them out not a big deal right at the moment) everything perfect except for some scratches on the door side plastics. Got the Case off of eBay for $40 shipped.
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