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Date Posted: 23:11:51 05/19/01 Sat
Author: Chris Lawson
Subject: LC575 Back Panels

Finished the LC575 back panel conversion tonight. It took about 90 minutes of careful Dremel work to do it. I'll be posting some pictures of the CC and the panel itself tomorrow in the following directory:

http://cc.kzoo.edu/~k98cl01/cc575/

Meanwhile, a few tips...

1) If you attempt this, PRACTISE YOUR DREMEL SKILLS FIRST up near the snap tabs on the 575 back panel. That's the part you're cutting off anyway so you can afford to mess up.

2) Have a steady but firm hand. ABS plastic likes to melt (instead of cutting like it's supposed to) under high-speed cutting and this tends to clog or jam the cutoff wheel.

3) When you cut away the excess metal shielding, do it like I did in the pictures. It will save you a LOT of trouble when you're making the big edge-to-edge cut. (You'll see what I mean.)

4) Trim away all but about 1 cm of the excess *first* and in a rough manner, just to get it out of your way and practise the Dremel-ing some more. It makes it a LOT easier to do the precision edge-to-edge cut without getting crooked.

5) There's a little metal bit that looks sort of like one of the blades in a rotary pencil sharpener on the end. Use that bit to cut the "lip" around the edge the panel so it looks like the CC panel does inside. It's FAR easier than using a cutoff wheel.

I might think of some more stuff between now and when I post the pictures; if I do, I'll put it up as an index.html file (along with this post).

cl

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