Woohoo! Take two of those pos cutoff disks and *poof* you're ready to cut some plastic! Also, when they break in half, they cut better AND you can see what you're doing Note: Always wear eye protection ect ect blah blah you get the point.
I managed to cut a window out of a YY Cube case with them. OK it took a fair few... and 4 hours... but the cheapo disks got there in the end S
Ive been shopping for a diamond or carbide one lately...they sound really cool and I'd virtually never have to replace it!
I've heard that the problem with those is that they dull down. So you'd have to have a way to sharpen them. But I've never used one, so I can't vouche for that.
i love my dremel, but a jigsaw with metal cutting blade takes 5 mins to cut a window. 4 hours thats insane and you have 30 mins of getting the moulding installed on top of that.
That's 4 hours using the pos blades. I did my windows in an hour using a dremel with the reinforced blades. And it took 10 to do moulding
Yeh, My dad's a Dental surgeon so uses diamond cutting burrs and disks in his day job - he 'borrowed' me a couple from work. They're nice Dremel sized arbours with them too - downside is if you wanted to buy some the same they'd set you back £50 each!!! Good job they'll last a while! The diamond burr also works wonders for drilling neat holes in glass, as linear says. I'm gonna start working on a top window with blowhole in glass using these for my folks....
Heh heh. No locking strip. I use automotive door trim moulding Although I think the shape makes up for it. my case (as it used to be Here.)
when you say it took you an hour with reinforced blades, are you talking a run-of-the-mill rounded rectangle one?
yeah, i looked at that, mr. smarty pants. but that says "how it used to be". so i figured he cut some newer, bigger window. but anyway, for a window that small, that's STILL a long-assed time. this window took me ~1hour with a jigsaw. (not including the half hour of filing to deburr)
Actually, that would be damn good, considering it takes Pcmods 5 min for the side windows and 7 for the top. Heh, we talk alot. PS they dont like doing it just as much as you ! Oh, and the guy that cuts the holes, he's pretty weird
I cut a perfectly round window using a battery powered DeWalt jigSaw with a bent blade in less than 10 minutes and all I had to do was give it a quick run with a sheet of sand paper, Dremmel Sremmel, Fair enuff it was a nice big dircle, no doubt a dremmell would be a life saver for detailed cuts, but wy do you guys bother spending 4 hours trying to cut a simple square/circle...etc?
I hope this isn't considered "thread hijacking" but... How do you cut a perfectly straight square/rectangle with a jigsaw? I was thinking of clamping some lengths of wood to the panel as a sort of guide.... Whenever I've tried jigsawing anything in the past it's gone all over the place (never with anything important luckily!) - am I missing something or do I just suck at everything?
All I did was mark my window, masking tape the rest of the case, then I just masking taped the side panel to an old carboard box, It didn't move anywhere and i was left with a lovely circle. Start off slowly (but don't go too slow or the blade will just catch and bend the metal.) You can either drill a 'ole in the metal and cut from there (Don't make it too close to the side you wanna be able to turn the blade to be in line with the cut before you get to it. (Catch my drift?)) or if your really adventurous you can go for the whole plunge-cut bit like me.... start your jig saw at an angle and slowly plunge it into the metal... saves you having to get out the drill! Edit : have you made sure the bit in your jig saw is straight and isn't moving?
Place a fairly decent sized block of wood on your workbench, place panel on top, clamp. You can then use a jigsaw incredibly accurately, but remember to keep stopping now and then, and moving the clamp nearer where you're cutting. The panel should stay absolutely still, and you'll have no mistakes. File down edges, then file down further with 'nail' files. That's what I did, and if I had any decent webspace (oh yeah, and a better cam than my webby) I'd show you the results. PS: Phat's case mod turned out pretty nice, and when you use that rubber seal stuff perfection isn't absolutely neccessary.
Lookit at my avatar, that's me first mod on me coolermaster 201... all i need now is one of these, those, one of them, two of those, a few of these, one of those here from there, oohh as many of these while theyre on offer.... I can see repeated credit card abuse over the horizon quite clearly.... "I can see deebt now mah credits gone.... i can see big blokes tekkin mah pc aaawwwaaayy..." - sung in the non rhyming drunken street busker way
