4w ago

How do I patch up the ugly bar on the top and bottom when I mod a aclyics side panel?

I want to swap the side panel with an aclyics sheet. But it doing so will leave a ugly silver dempt on the top and bottom side of the pc, since the original side pane wraps around to hold itself in place. Is there a way to patch it up?

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cut the center out of the old panel and insert a plexi panel
- That is actually very smart. Should I be making the acrylics panel a few mm bigger than the hold than pressing it into the hole I cut?
  
  Yes. I recommend gluing the acrylic to the inside of the steel panel. It's hard to drill holes (for tiny brass bolts) that close to the edge without cracking.
  Although, I suppose you could melt the holes. Carefully. Or glue magnets. Nothing in a PC these days that a magnet can hurt.
- I agree.
What is aclyics?
- it's like acrylics but anaerobic.
  
  Thank you, you win the internet today.
- Acrylic.
I figure you have 2 main options
1 is to either cut out the sides of the old panel and reuse them there or to fabricate a new part (3d printing, like someone else mentioned, might be a good choice, or maybe something you could hack together with some sheet metal or plastic and make a new piece)
Fill it with bondo, sand it down, paint it black.
3D printed custom designed pieces. Acrylic glue bonds well with PLA so that might work really well.

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