Removing Bays

[Fahey]

I was looking and trying to remove hard drive bay and floopy bay.
How do u remove them.
I am trying to put the hard bays where the floopy is because i only have 2 hard drives. And also i have a radiator that im trying to put in the front 120mm.

[Sir Mandrake]

What case are you working with?

If you dont find any screws holding the bays in place then most likely they are held in by rivets... youll have to drill the rivets out to remove the bays. Be warned though.. removing the bays may weakin the structural integrity of the case.

[Fahey]

I have a Nemsis Elite
And what kind of drill would I need isnt there something like a rivets remover.

[Sir Mandrake]

I have a Nemsis Elite
And what kind of drill would I need isnt there something like a rivets remover.

Theres no rivet remover tool... Any drill will work in removing rivets.
Just select a drill bit size that will fit the hole in the center of the rivet and drill all the way through it. The rivet will fall apart and free whatever it was holding in place. You will probably need to remove the front of the Nemesis to get at the rivets (assuming that rivets are whats holding the cages in place). To reattach the cages to the case you can go to any hardware store and get a small package of new rivets and a pop-rivet tool. Drill new holes if neccessary and set the new rivets in.

A pop rivet tool is easy to use. Buy the size rivet that fits the hole. Insert the new rivet in the hole. Then insert the tool over the rivet....squeeze the tool handle until the rivet "pops" .. thats all there is to it.

[Fahey]

Do u know the size of the rivet.

[Sir Mandrake]

No, sorry I dont. Youll just have to look at the rivets already in the case and figure out what size you need.

[Aleks^]

The nemesis Elite is toolless, so you only would have to pop it out.. i guess..

[Sir Mandrake]

Its tooless for installing hardware such as adapter cards, drives and etc. However, the bays themselves are designed not to be removed. Some modding will be required to achieve what Fahey wants to do.

[Fahey]

rivet do u know where I can get some of them.

[Sir Mandrake]

rivet do u know where I can get some of them.

At Your friendly neighborhood Hardware store. (Lowes, Menards, Home-Depot, etc.)
Just ask for pop-rivets

[Fahey]

ok
Also I have this dremel but it sucks as I can also get a dremel from home-depot
also I was at this other site that said to buy this tool to put them in is it neccessary or can i just put it in by hand.

[Exitialis]

what to put a rivet in? if you can drive solid steel through a couple of mm of aluminium i suppose you could do it by hand :p

[Fahey]

ya
i was reading at pimprig.com and someone said to buy something like that
so i don't need it
I was wondering if they come in cooler.

[Exitialis]

dont need what? :confused:

the rivet gun? because you do.

[Fahey]

I need the gun what kind of gun and where I want a cheap one.
and http://www.dragonmodz.net/product_info.php?cPath=29&products_id=55
these are the rives I want to put in will they fit.

[Sir Mandrake]

YES! You will need a rivet gun........
The rvets on that site look like they are standard pop rivets, only difference is that they are colored for modding reasons obviously. A standard pop rivet gun at Home Depot will work. The link below should take you to a pop rivet gun at home depot..its about $20. The gun below will handle 1/8in size rivets which is what is on that site you mentioned.

Edit:
Link wouldnt work with the forum.
Go to www.home-depot.com (http://www.home-depot.com) and do a search for Rivet Gun and it will come right up.

[Fahey]

ok thanks whats the differents between a rivet and a pop rivet
because I was looking at the site I am think of taking every rivet out and putting the black ones in.

I am also getting a new dremel from lowes thats about $100

[Sir Mandrake]

Theres no difference in the two. Some people (like me) just call them pop-rivets.

[Fahey]

o so those black ones will fit in the holse.

[Sir Mandrake]

Very likely yes.