Modding a 10yr old case like it's from 2020!!!!!!!

[@AudatiousXtreme]

Holy shit timmy! The memories I have with this exact case and you modded it and literally made it the way I always wished it was!!! Great video man seriously loved watching this!

[@alfonsocvu]

Same here

[@dec125rr2]

Me too

[@newfieboy23]

Timmy Joe that is an epic mod to a classic case. I feel like you fully accomplished your goals -- keep up the great work. You truly got some skills there bud.

[@OzTalksHW]

I LOVE this. If you don’t wanna drill holes, you could glue small magnets to the acrylic sheet. No potential cracks 😁 I’m working on something similar at the moment and didn’t even THINK about making a PSU shroud/basement. Good stufffffff

[@TimmyJoePCTech]

Good idea for sure. I believe I am gonna follow this up eventually with maybe a color change and more. Mini magnets is a great idea. I look forward to seeing what you're up to!

[@21April853BC]

Make it a beast. Timmy Joe is the Pimp My Ride of computers.

[@JuiceJM]

Epic mod.IMO its both nostalgic and modern in the best ways! Id be interested in more case mod vids actually lol

[@nedkelly2625]

When drilling next time use some thick wood under the panel then u want get any problems,nice pc well recycled pc.

[@TimmyJoePCTech]

agreed, I def figured that out the second time

[@NitrousFox83]

@@TimmyJoePCTech Or don't drill it at all and glue/epoxy four neodymium magnets in the corners so that it "clicks" into place. As a plus the black paint border hides them.

[@andrewsheldon5379]

@@TimmyJoePCTech and tape it before you drill also

[@streamtabulous]

Buzzzz , he should use step bit, not a drill bit

[@tweakz_tech]

Don't use metal drill bits for acrylic.

[@LeoNyeDis]

The Lazy Susan is a big brain move to use for these videos!!! 200IQ. Hope your day is going well TJ

[@joefowble]

Putting on Steve Burke wig: You just lost a gpu-cooling blowhole for a piece of Plexi with no air holes.

[@AtWater_band_matt]

Okay I'm willing to pay $100 for one of these cases

[@mikedragon3367]

love that case and thank you for supporting masks

[@donh8833]

Im still rocking my haf 912. It has liquid cooling, an acryllic side panel and 6 rgb fans (3 front, 1 top, 1 rear, 1 side)

[@AznStylezYT]

You can try to repair the crack with windshield crack repair kits.

[@Raven10241]

but this is so much cooler lol

[@tr1llwill]

If he has several of these cases or even different ones he plans on making them so "modern" he would be better off just buying another and larger sheet of plexi. Just redoing the side panel would be the best way to go vs buying a crack repair kit for the one off job.

[@beezerblanks]

Love it. I never got rid of my HAF 922. I ended up fitting it with a 3600, rtx2080 and a bluray drive for my living room. It is great for an air cooled build. Still using the original 200mm front and side fans.

[@huh-64]

This case was being sold in my town as New release 2 years ago 😔

[@hrayz]

What I look for in a case: No RGB Great air flow Drive bays, 3.5 & 2.5 Room for an optical drive Room for 240-280mm AiO A little cable management room So, old school is perfect! Modern (RGB bling-over-substance, glass glass and more glass) is opposite of my needs.

[@Griftercash]

TJ, the fan on the side was the best thing that happened to pc cases in its history. OK, is not not very pretty but they ventilate the GPU very well and on PC utility always comes over vanity.

[@halistinejenkins5289]

good stuff. check out Bill Owen's channel. he has all kinds of tricks for cutting / drilling plastic parts without all the cracking, scratching, and shattering.

[@cookiemcwilliam5300]

You should sand the bottom where the crack is around as high as the basement so the crack is smooth. And then spray it black. Ta-da all fixed up.

[@megaglowz8540]

Little black vinyl on the side panel the same hight as the basement and it's sorted :)

[@leoneildy]

Modern looking pc cases with glass or acrylic is not for me. Risk of breaking and scratches, rather have rust or peeling paint

[@Plumfan_]

This diy proyects are really cool, keep doing them.

[@transposestudios]

Sometimes I miss taking Adderall :( lol

[@September-wx9tr]

Psst, hey kid... Wanna buy some drugs?

[@jonathanfelso]

@@September-wx9tr Yes please.

[@deminybs]

nicely done Tim Tim 👍 I've always had a soft spot for CM cases, minus the xclio full tower I bought in like 07 I've had/still have the CM stryker storm case and currently using CM 500M , had to semi mod both lol

[@sd1rager]

Excuse me can you point me to the acrylic shit isle?

[@jlmpc8733]

this looks like a case from 2020, but a 25$ one xD

[@sd1rager]

The Rusty Shackleford of cases.

[@CobraFangGaming]

My first pc I built was in one of these cases

[@nate_meador89]

You should totally make this a series! You should do more cases and maybe some oem cases. Maybe expand to other parts as well, like graphics cards and other parts. Just making otherwise crappy parts look “the part”😉

[@ColtLuger]

Timmy, I live an hour away from you, if you need any precision work done, let me know I'll do it for free. Metal, plastic or wood.

[@andrewlane4854]

Shit.... I’m still using that case!

[@GeorgeJFW]

It actually looks really good. I want to see this on an OLD! Case

[@antec900AmD]

Laying tape over acrylic before drilling holes can prevent cracks most of the time, nice end result 👍

[@deadbugdoug505]

It does look awesome! Great job

[@PCTechHustle]

Hah! Funny the last video I just did was a build in this case, but no cool TJ style mods.

[@shahazmeer]

i'm still using this case xD

[@redd_rl]

Whoops, i came early. I found you and subbed, Love that unique studio!

[@sd1rager]

Loved that intro lol

[@michaelthompson9798]

Hi Timmy all the way from Australia 🇦🇺 ☺️🖐 absolutely smashing mod! I love the way this case looks after the plexi side panel. As another viewer commented below, this was the way this case should have looked! Loving the video’s, keep’m coming 🥰 cheers.

[@blackmennewstyle]

Acrylic makes everything looking better, everything... Only North American can still doubt the importance of wearing masks in end of July 2020...

[@VikingDudee]

I got a dual e5-2678 Xeon server in a old white Windows XP case, only because the motherboard tray was easy to modify for the server board, and it has a ton of HDD mounting options and its built vary solid and the top of the case for the PSU was big enough for a 1300 watt PSU. Only bad thing about it is the wiring management kinda sucks, no real good spot to hide/route wires.

[@BREEZYM6015]

That was very good but I don't have the tools that you used and that was a lot of work so I definitely won't be doing anything like this. I have a Dell Precision T3400 case that I would like to use for a new build but the problem I might run into is getting a newer motherboard to fit in the case and line up with the I/O shield. It'll be easier for me to spend $50 to $60 for a case that comes with fans for airflow as well.

[@gageboy14]

I just found and purchased a Corsair c70 vengance in brand new condition. Put a new b650 motherboard in it with a new 7800x3d and a 4090 fe. Ya it rocks!!! Still waiting for you to get your but back on KZbin! O btw, I put an Asus blue ray writer/player and a digital fan monitor in the drive bays! Looks awesome!

[@chloedevereaux1801]

your copying me dude....... i heavily modded my 750d obsidion 4yrs ago. TG side and front.... 7 case fans, psu shroud, carbon backplate 420 and 360 support so yeah.......

[@SamFBM]

exactly what i did with my enthoo pro because the split side window was pissing me off so £10 later and i hand a nice full window

[@matthewday7565]

My system is not complete without an optical drive - or TWO. My most glorious case ever was the "7 bays in my desktop", back in the day when I'd turn up the odd bit of software cheap on 5 1/4" - it had 2x HDD in a cage off the PSU, 3x 5 1/4" front bays carrying a loadout of CDROM, 5 1/4" floppy, CD-RW and 2x 3 1/2" bays with floppy & tape drive (minor mod, frame cut to allow for out of form factor bulge on tape drive). I'd do Unicorn Puke for a build I want to shift, but mine sits under desk on a left platform, so a window is no use unless I went for a reversed case

[@johncundiff7075]

I have a Cooler Master HAF Case (The year model before this one, mine has no factory USB 3.0), as my main rig since I built it on Christmas Day, 2011. It lives in a desk, so colored lights and RGB mean nothing to me. I have great fans in the front to keep it cool. It has the same processor since Day 1. It has a Sandy Bridge i7-2600k, but everything else has been modified since I built it. Mostly by upgrading all the storage. It has 16GB Corsair DDR3, a 500 GB Samsung SSD and (4) Eight TB Seagate HDD's for storage. I'm not a gamer in any way shape or form, I am using a GTX 750ti. Oh and an 850W Corsair Power supply. I got laid off my job in 2012 and haven't been able to afford a new PC. I'm not a gamer, but a downloader (I also have 32TB of external storage), and by simply taking good care of my PC I've made it last a very long time and it has been very dependable.

[@hi_tech_reptiles]

Ooo cool, I have like 4-5 old Mac Pros circa 08' - 09' I plan on modding for ATX and possibly use myself, both for my gaming PC and a homelab/server/NAS/something! lol EDIT: I love the way it looks, but trying to keep the bottom and side ventilation could have been interesting to keep that cooling potential, along with mounting a third fan where the CD-rom bay is? Maybe a part 2? ;)

[@vsammy_poet]

OMG. 😂 THAT SUPERHYPER "Modern Case" came to be very Expensive.. 🤔 So.. If is doing something like that. Have to be prepared well. And the panel should maybe be like thicker plexiglass. But it may be even more expensive by then 🙄. Modding is Hard stuff..

[@willaimkazer9754]

I like older cases. They cool better than theses boxes that have glass in the front. 1. Get rid of bays that are a wall, At least in the bottom. Doing right thing so far. Oh, PSU shroud. That's neat. 2. Plex side panel. Should go old school with a side fan over GPU. Not 2020 trend involve slight engineering by manufacturer. I like the front rad. Also, Push/Pull on Rad is good, and th3 3rd fan on the bottom is goo too, blows air at PSU and SSD, HDDs too. 3. I would leave one 51/4 inch bay at top for a Blu-ray drive. I watch movies on them and have tons of DVD's. The rest, mesh it though. 4. Don't Crack it. Tempered glass is a little better if funds are available. 5.Bring old acrylic from mack-up with you to place. 6. Nothing ever goes right the first time, the case does look good. I still like tempered glass, but that needs to be done by professional that can work with glass after acrylic templates made. Also mask are mandatory hear in USA in public. Virus is getting bad again because of what I believe is protests. Be safe and avoid stupidity in public places. There is a lot of that hear.

[@cjolney]

Hi Tim. I have one of these cases with the original grey insides. It has the 2.5 inch drive holder still. Yours is the 912 plus, since it has the USB 3.0 front port. That was $75 extra when the case was new. Mine was built on a Phenom X6 1055T with a BFG 9800GTX+. Nice modding, it makes me happy to see my case still pop up in the time of today

[@Ace12GA]

Timmy, 2005 called. They want their case modding back. ;) I spent so much time back in the day doing this. Cutting in side panels. Adding plexi. Reconfiguring the interior. Painting. Adding lighting with CCFL tubes. I even got into using body filler to custom sculpt ducts into the front panel of the case to look like turbines at one point. Good times. Acrylic.. check out polycarb next time. Way tougher, and generally will not crack or shatter. Drilling acrylic, use some sacraficial wood behind the plexi, high speed, low pressure, and drill slowly through the plexi, and into the wood. Shouldn't be an issue if you do it that way.

[@roguehavikk]

I have a Chaser MK 1 (thermaltake case from 2011) that I modded for my main system a $2400 Hardline PC with a I9 9900k. Used the core P1 upgrade kit to replace the side panel with some tempered glass.($40 dollars USD for the kit). Had to drill out the drive cage and use fan adapters to mount a 360 radiator to the front. Its the only full-tower case I have ever bought and has seen 4 different computers in it.

[@Monkeyshz]

Hi Timmy!!! Very nice mod!!! I have a CM Stryker that I want to mod... but I am concern... thanks for showing that changing the side panel and adding some RBG, make a bug difference! Very nice job!

[@niteowl9733]

I'm surprised its that clean. I modded one in an older 8350 build. Didn't do much to it. Painted and made it look new. New fans and what not. Sold it for $650 2 years ago. Had 650ti in it with a transferable life time warranty from evga. Thats really the only reason why evga stood apart from the rest. No more though... How many times have we all told you to slow down and stop manhandling everything? Such a TIMMMMAH.

[@MRHOTCAKE]

I just got a cosmos 1000 to installe and adapt an old x58 dual motherboard EEATX, but was looking for an old HAF 932, unfortunately seller told me he was already sold it, so Cosmos lets go!!!! And I always wanted an CM690 II, I already have one, thinking what to to with it

[@SparkyOne549]

I did an antec 300 similarly. The biggest issue I had, because I wanted a clean build, was the front panel being USB2. I looked for a USB3 equivalent, but I hadn’t learned soldering then. So I opted for a USB 5 1/4 bay to slot in that had usb3 and usb 2. I really wanted to take out the entire 5 1/4 bay. I sold it. I didn’t have a problem with the acrylic. I wanted glass, so I went to a custom glass business but I didn’t feel the price was worth the case.

[@leonefurlan137]

Timmy,the case really looks awesome!!! But,f... it,counting all the stuff you purchased for it lookin' this way,you must've spent over 50$ (plexi,rgb fans,spray paint etc)? So,in a way,its cheaper to get some of those chinese windowed cases,with rgb fans allready inside...

[@Exloar]

I know this video was a while ago, but it's the same case as I have, and I've been thinking of just using the original side panel that came with the case, cut the inside around the edges, so that I get a frame with tabs to "lock-in" and then just adhesive the plexi onto that frame, like some double sided black tape. Avoids any drilling of the plexi AND you get the same functionality of the original panel.

[@zelfzenzations9096]

Yeah it looks great TimmyJoe! Thx for creating! There is the other technique which is to saw metal square on sidepanel add some rubber band on the cutted edge (I get my rubber band from MNPCTECH.com) after acrylic panel sticked with ultra strong 3M Double sided tape on the inside no drilling holes involved.

[@justonemarko]

You flipped a NUT! LOL. How about letting us know if you flip the case/pc. I think you did a great job on this classic case. I own 2 old cooler master cases both different models, and I am still using them. I cut into and modded the HAF XB EVO and fitted a manual 6 fan controller, that lights up, and some extra usb 2 ports. Love your posts, can you upgrade a UPS?

[@CopperPopperComputers]

Nostalgic case + modern aesthetics = Man I can watch these mods all day ❤️ love it

[@2011jaydog]

He'll yeah man I need some ideas a buddy brought 5 computers .said I fix the 2 gamers. I can have the rest ..got i7 4770s..Asus pc w Asus 3gig gtx760..gonna hook gf's daughter up 4 bday and wanna do something different on the case or swap or build my own 4 her...its an oem Asus small mobo :)

[@badnewsbruner]

Dude... I'm tweetin' this shit.. I'm WAY impressed.. This turned out AMAZING!! Fuckin' A dude!

[@Noganite]

I might need to modify my side panel on my HAF 932 Advanced (holds my current system). Aside from the crack, it looks amazing! Don't beat yourself up Timmy, it may be non-economical compared to buying a new one, but it is your case, your mods. I would gladly take it off your hands 4 free :P

[@NiMAyanami]

Nice build. My old parts look great in there! Way to go timmy!

[@jacksmiles47]

Hey brotha! Pro tips for drilling the plexi, or anything else thing and potentially breakable: 1. Use the correct bit. They make bits that are more pointed like a spear that work on glass/plexi that are less likely to grab on to the material and cause the stress cracking. 2. In conjunction with #1, put a piece of scrap wood under the piece you're working on so that the drill can smoothly work it's way through the entirety of the piece. This will remove that little jolt that sometimes happens when trying to punch through a piece. 3: As you already found out and mentioned, use the right drill speed for the right material. Really dig the mod my dude. Keep making content, and hope this info was helpful! :D

[@cwadeh1]

Liked the video Timmy! I'm still using a CM 690 II advanced. I cut a side window in it which was a pain. It came out good, but I like what you did better. Painting the edges was a great idea. I've busted acrylic with the drill too so I understand that frustration. I'd like to see a Haf X modded like that with a custom loop. I just hate AIO coolers.. Keep up the good work!

[@PyroVulpes]

Those old Cooler Master HAF cases were, and still are, awesome. These modern cases with solid front panels and barely any drive bays all suck. I certainly wish we could go back to the days of vents and fans everywhere. I love the side window and power supply basement you added, but I would have left a couple optical bays if this were my case. You also should have modded in a few more type-A USB 3 ports, and maybe even a type-C.

[@kderp9727]

I still have my HAF 932 from well over 10 years ago (with the original fans too) and I'll never get rid of it. Its currently running my Thread Ripper and the previous build in it was a liquid cooled dual Xeon workstation setup. That being said your mods are very cool sir.

[@ju5t1n78]

You remind me of a youtuber of a pretty big channel.. if I just could remember.. OOH it was DonutMedia xD you look just like James xD

[@Chalto]

Hey Timmy, love the channel and this video was cool. I have a suggestion which should help with keeping the acrylic panel safer and a bit more sturdy. Instead of just using the acrylic for the whole panel, why not use the original metal side panel and just make a big cutout for the acrylic to be fixed into? I'd cut the panel out to leave about a 1 inch border onto which you can hotglue the acrylic panel. Take care with the sharp metal edges of course, and ensure they are nicely smoothed off and painted after, then affix the acrylic onto it much like many pre-temperd glass cases were. You'll then have a much more sturdy side panel that you or whoever you sell the computer to, won't have to worry about breaking so easily, and having to treat it gently. TTFN and keep making great content that's not the same old crap like many other channels do :)

[@joels6736]

Custom modding anything that requires a bit of fabrication always comes with some unexpected mishaps, whether its automotive or PC so take it slow and practice makes perfect. These are the perfect kind of projects for people who are bored during the covid 19 situation. Are they necessary and a wise use of money? Probably not but it's something you can have fun with and take pride in.

[@saintuk70]

Love TJ's stuff....as he said himself about the videos he has to do, these where it's his own content is much fun. Love the haphazard approach too....esp cutting plexi right on the desk. Double like for the C-19 message!

[@louisandjake]

I've had that case since 2013, still going strong

[@theejoeylee]

I have a coolermaster CM 690 . just a 690 period. But I love it. Might do this. Oh....and some and paint and a porch side panel as well

[@ΛάμπροςΠολίτης-κ6ρ]

i feel like if you added another side panel for the back of the case, you know those that have a little curve, you couldve done a terrific cable management job. I'm considering to do that with my old Coolermaster Elite 430 which has literally no cable management room whatsoever but has excellent airflow. Great video.

[@terminator4625]

Bro... Literally last month I tossed this piece of trash. (mine was 50% rusted out from poor storage) I had to use it as a temporary solution for my new rig and last month I bought the Fractal Design... R5 I believe is the model. Point being it was great to see how the case could have been reused Timmy thanks for the great content... Would have been great to try this out.... If it had been in better condition anyway.

[@dodgydruid]

Hehe now do a man's case... the HAF XM... if you thought the 912 was big... the XM is the beastie of the range, my one is getting tired and saw how this worked quite nicely so job well done. Drilling acrylic use some masking tape or electrical insulation tape and pilot hole first then drill to size second. Nowt going wrong with air, my HAF system has a Coolermaster V8 MK1 which pulls better figures than my old custom water rig and until my V8 stops fitting CPU blocks I ain't changing it either, my core is 15 degrees as I type and I got Davinci Resolve motoring on in the background and it just never sweats thanks to the two top 240's, the front 240 and the rear twin 120's. You would have loved my Antec Skeleton which I painted in luminous toxic green paint, had rigid and bendy water cooling pipes with UV toxic green in the CPU line and UV blood red in the GPU circuit with some very old Alphacool ram coolers with the diddy little thin pipes like veins and that monster fan on top I put some UV paint to catch the blacklights in red... it looked amazing. Only downer with my XM is the front panel USB's are becoming unreliable so I do need to rebuild the ports up top. Why didn't you buy the plate glass window Coolermaster sold for the 912? I do have a lovely bright alien green fan to replace the V8's when it goes, super bright UV and cathode green light. You could hide the crack with some "frosting" spray perhaps?

[@kyleb2044]

Looks damn sweet after all that frustration you went through. I once bought acrylic for my crappy wire shelf fridge. Home depot's cutter was broken so I thought I'll just cut it at home. Turns out even thin acrilic is very hard to score and snap, it was a big pain, cuts weren't clean, I also mis measured too large at first. But I made it work and the fridge works much better all these years later. I would triple check the measurements and only buy from a place that can cut for me in the future. I also did something similar with acrilic and oak many years ago to an old case, it didn't look nearly as good, but was unique lol.

[@hashtaglobotomy2655]

I have that exact case. You totally gave me the will to mod it. Plus I'm gonna go ahead and try one of those dual Xeon Chinese setups and run 2 r9 390s. It should fill the case quite well. Think I'm gonna go with the 200mm fans front and top though. They look nice and still less common.

[@vladdimitrov819]

Can anyone recommend a paint that's safe for inside of a computer case? Specifically for cables. I have a Windows XP retro build in a really cool InWin case and would love to paint the IDE cables to match and not be the ugly gray. Any paint that can make that possible?

[@inyoudeep1]

I hacked the heck out of my 9 year old Rosewill BLACKHAWK, over the years, while upgrading. It doesn't look anything like how it started out. I really need a new case, but I just cannot seem to find any nice cases. Even in the $200+ range. Almost all of them are horribly thought out and are ugly as hell. I miss the days of getting a nice and functional case for $80 or less. I might do a short video showing how bad I hacked it up.

[@RaPtOr9600]

I have my old I7 2700K with Sabertooth p67 that was in Silverstone Raven 3 i could not part with it old i7 So i bought used Haf X and made it new home for 2700k Thousand more times better than RGB, glass, and other shit that is trending now. And even now my current Ryzen 2700 is in Silverstone Raven 3 i could not find case that is appeal to me so i stick with Silverstone, can't decide who has better air flow HAF X or Silverstone Raven 3 both of them are excellent airflow cases. And still by my taste HAF X and SS Raven 3 they look and serve great.

[@Yggdrasill8]

I ordered this case from newegg and never used it because I realized how much I didn't like the aesthetics once I saw and felt it in person. Went back to newegg to order the LIAN LI Lancool PC-K62 Black when it was new.

[@bloodyzbub6213]

Sure you’re not happy about dropping that much cash on the case...but I honestly see it as money well spent. You LEARNED what to do for every future case mod. Think of it as an investment. Great vid TJ.

[@LG-dl2kc]

I really dont understand why people like those gaming cases with all that rgb and transparent side panels, when i build a pc I just look for an used case from a prebuilt PC on the internet. I built my computer on a Asus G10 series and it costed me €10 including a dvd-rw, no rgb, just a regular case...

[@TheOriginalFaxon]

@timmy joe pc tech i was thinking of doing a mod like this in a couple of my old HAF line cases. Is it okay if i copy your design language for my build? I was planning to bend a metal PSU shroud but IDK how well that's going to work out or how it will look and tbh this looks really sexy as well. It will be ending up on my as of yet unlaunched youtube channel sometime in the fall if I do that project soon.

[@metaleater9]

Stop hating on drive bays! They are super useful for new I/O which keeps the case relevant, Manual fan controls, and drive bay reservoirs. Maybe if people stopped hatting the drive bays there would be a capacitive LCD touch screens for them by now.

[@theBoomerDoomer]

Acrylic is a b*tch to work with, as you've discovered. If you look up a local glass shop, they could probably cut you a panel of tempered glass and drill out holes to boot. I have a family member that does home remodeling and he orders glass shower panels from a glass shop, rather than buying the frameless tempered glass kits from a building supply store. It is vastly cheaper from what I was told. So tempered glass might not be that far-fetched of an option if you ever do another one of these case mods.

[@linus2974]

I had a cooler master haf 912 advanced for my main rig up until this January. Got in a killer deal for the case and a cooler master 700w psu for $50 cad. Had a ryzen 7 2700 and a rtx 2060 in that case til i upgraded to a meshify c

[@automajstorijediy]

cut a square peace of plexi where is a crack,and put a vent from inside and there is no crack :)

[@Teksers]

Paint the acrylic where you cracked it, give it some sorts of pattern and left of that write Timmy Joe Mod. After that keep it as a showcase in the background of your videos. Great mod and video. Stay safe :D.

[@guywhoknows]

I got one of these cases... I got it a few years ago and tbh much better that my MSI case. (In terms of cooling and space)... You do know you can buy a window side panel for that case from cooler master right? They make the stackers etc for them too. But anyways. If you get black foam draft excluder the sticky back type and put in on the window around the case this should protect it better and so it doesn't rattle. And yes media card reader that floppy... I've not looked at modding. Perhaps you can buy a LCD panel and fit it in the drive bays, then it would look "cool" and with some purpose...

[@mass1985]

Why not try to make it like a slide in window? Like old diafilm, just slide that fkr in.. You would need maybe some wood and glue, if you dont wana drill the case. Just add some new woodframes? OR cut the top and bottom edges of that old panel, and just glue in the window? I am saying there are more than one way of doing this.

[@danthompsett2894]

Yeah I've had issues cutting with a jigsaw (edge can melt whilst cutting) and drilling that stuff in the past I used a company called displaypro for that btw, used mask for the first time in mackydees today as its been mandatory in the UK to go in shops with em on as off the 24th of july its no biggy.

[@dot_boi]

Try Polycarbonate next time, Its way less brittle then acrylic and it costs about the same. One downside it is can yellow over time if under long exposures of direct sunlight. I guess as long as it stays in your Dimly lit Dorito Dungeon it should be perfectly fine.

[@DrMuFFinMan]

Not bad looking for an old case, still have my old Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced. I'd still rather melt sand and make my own glass before I will ever work with acrylic again.

[@garyrowe58]

Why spend time on a case when it's just going to gather dust and hairs under the desk?

[@johngerding927]

@Timmy Joe, use the original Side panel as a frame for the plexi... Cut out the center leaving about a 2 inch border all the way around then cut the plexi where its broken and glue the plexi to the metal frame side panel... Thats pretty much how they used to do old plexi side panels.

[@kevinpitts3548]

Whatever happen to the $10 test bench!?!?!?!? Do a video on open air vs closed. Im still thinking about the Thermaltake p3. What do you think?