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Emachines Hackjob

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spydermonkey

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Well, this is my first time ever modding, and I hope it turns out the way I have it in mind. I'm not going to lie, I recieved my inspiration for this project mainly from Defyant's awesome work with the HP Ressurection series of mods. Anyway, this is what I am beginning with:
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It's not much, but I hope I can turn it into something light for LANs, and something that makes my friends go oooooohh.

So far, all I've managed to do was mutilate the top with some tin snips, (bent something awful), and then finish the cutting with nibblers. Here's a peek at what I had when I was done:
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And this is the top against the case:
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Since I removed the top (reason being that a normal sized PSU wouldn't fit. See:
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Since removing the top, the case has become very weak. I plan on cutting the portion seen here in red:
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and putting it back in to provide more support to the case.

I was out today and decided to run by Home Depot and pick up a rotary tool, and decided on the Black and Decker RTX, along with the Dremel cutting kit. I believe the kit should have everything I need to work on the case.
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I hope to have this done before the 28th, as I have a LAN at my church to assemble and setup. I also have another case, a desktop case that will host my HTPC, and I may start another thread RE that, but I think I might have both mods in this thread. Thanks for looking!
 
I think you've definately got some possibilities there. It'll be interesting to see what you come up with.

Good call on going with a rotary tool rather than trying to get by on tin-snips and a nibbler! Should make your life much easier!
 
Managed to get the top cut as I had planned, but went through 2 reinforced cut off discs and maybe about 5-6 heavy duty cut off discs to do it.
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I also had a chance to cut out the PSU area.
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And finally, here's the space I'm working in. It's a 2 1/2 car garage, but we can't fit one car in it. Nice thing is, if I need a tool, I just need to find it.
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apex32 said:
lol thats so low
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No, what's low is that you would actually WANT a Windows ME key!

Spyder... if you can make something cool out of a eMachines box, you will definitely have done something impressive. The boxes didn't look too bad, but the stuff that waqs in them... that's another story.
 
new emachines can have an full open PCIe slot and an extra RAM slot... so they are not useless anymore.
 
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