Cant believe I just did that....

Bigdogbmx · 9 May 2008 at 23:55

Well I've always been a bit good at cocking things up but this is bad even for me. Just finished doing the heatsink mod on my failed 360 and it worked! Yay

So I figured since i had already voided the warranty and had it open, Ill cut a hole out and stick a fan in the lid over the heatsink.
I measured out where the 65mm fan would fit perfect between heatsink and dvd drive, found a point to measure from and started scratching out a circle with a metal compass. After about an hours scratching i got right through the case with a near perfect circle.
Great, I thought, Ill just blu tac the fan on the underside and pop the lid on to check it was ok, aaaaaand ive cut the whole on the wrong side of the point i marked out. So now I have a lovely neat hole in the lid directly over the DVD drive.

OH WELL.............................................

Logsi · 9 May 2008 at 23:58

TTIUWP...

Amnesia · 9 May 2008 at 23:59

cant you just bluetack it back in place

lol soz but gotta laugh at that one

NokkonWud · 10 May 2008 at 00:01

lolol.

kingy666 · 10 May 2008 at 00:02

There are many broken 360's out there, maybe you could purchase a lid off somebody.

point decay · 10 May 2008 at 00:05

benjo · 10 May 2008 at 00:11

Go on, post pics

Marky · 10 May 2008 at 00:20

Oh please let us have some pics

point decay · 10 May 2008 at 00:27

after doing so many similarly dumb things in my time, its nice to be on the other side for a change, and yeah, pics would be nice.. lol

Bigdogbmx · 10 May 2008 at 01:17

Ok the quality is bad cos my proper cameras out of batteries so i used my phone.
Anyway,

The fan was supposed to sit in the red square shown here:

Pretty nicely cut round hole eh?

Aaaaand here you can see that a fan in this hole would nicely cool my DVD drive...

I think Im gonna just stick a fan grill on it and cut another hole

point decay · 10 May 2008 at 01:20

even better (worse) with pics!!

Needles · 10 May 2008 at 01:21

" .... stupid is as stupid does "

Bigdogbmx · 10 May 2008 at 01:24

I thought it was a pretty shrewd move, DVD drives are known for overheating. Arent they? ARENT THEY? AH FFS.........

Marky · 10 May 2008 at 01:27

Haha

Didn't someone make a transparent CD Drive? If so - sling that in there and your in the money

WatchTower · 10 May 2008 at 04:53

Dam it! I want a coffee cup holder on my 360.

You could just get a faulty 360 and pinch it's shell or get a new a pimped out new 360 case.

Amnesia · 10 May 2008 at 06:39

look on the bright side.... thats a pretty neat cut

Sho · 10 May 2008 at 08:43

Metalface Mark · 10 May 2008 at 08:46

Great thread, that really sounds like something id do.

I was getting my kitchen relaid with tiles and had to cut a bit of my door off to make it fit, i cut it off and went to put it on, only to realise i had cut the top not the bottom, so it still didnt fit, i had to do it again and ended up with an inch hole at the top of the door.

Joebob · 10 May 2008 at 09:10

Damn - I have done things like that before, I think we all have. I'm always ultra careful and triple check anything now

I would cut the other hole, mount the fan and then pop two of these over them

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-005-GE&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=795

I think it will look quite good with two, and it definately can't hurt the airflow - can it?

Kainz · 10 May 2008 at 09:17

Top man! Everyone makes noob mistakes like this so you shouldn't feel bad about it. When my launch day 360 RRoD around Feb 08 I lost my rag trying to get the 360's casing off so I just went at the back clips with pliers. That didn't even losen the thing so I just ripped the case apart with my hands! I took the heatsink off, applied some thermal paste and a custom heatsink and the bugger was back to normal.