Check Out My Dvd Window, Lots of pics Options

[Xboxplaya978]

I was bored so I put a window in. I saw alot of people do it but one thing I never liked was when they made the cut closest to the front of the system, it wasnt contoured with the shape of the xbox, it was straight. Mine is a mice contoured line. Check it out from the begining:

















This was the last Xbox mod I did. I dont know if I will keep modding, but I will still check out the awesome stuff here. I might get some LEDs and a momentary switch to make them go on when the tray is open, and off when its closed. I have a Hitachi drive so I took the whole top off and just put a plain piece of plexi glass on. It makes a grinding noise for like 5 min but then it goes away( I have no clue what it is). I dont care about the noise because I have DVD2Xbox anyway so I just use my hdd for games(only 100gb though).

[joseph420]

plexi is a little scratched but other than that nice work!!!! i like the way you cut your window with the case shape!!!

[grim_d]

ok, well the winodw looks nice, clean. but been done a million billion times the same shape, by no means original. ur discs make a grinding noise becase nothing is holding them in when the drives is closed. u need the spindle from ur original drive to hold it in place..that's gonna make things go tits up.

[MikeFez]

OMFG i'm in the middle of doing this when I saw this post, I'm wondering what tool you used to cut it so strait, and what you did for the hole to look perfect... plz tell

[Xboxplaya978]

Plexi glass is weird about scratches, you cant see those in person, the flash from the camera brings them out. I jsut used a razor for cutting. I didnt have cutting discs for my dremel so I just got out a razor and traced my lines over and over(I pushed hard because I didnt want to wait). After I cut a hole , I put a steak knife in it and cut the rest of the window out. I had the spindle thing in on my first DVD cover but it didnt do anything at all so I just chucked that piece, now I have a full window. I would say that 95% of the time I dont use my drive, and when I do its for playing on XBL, I use XBC because its free and I can swear at the little kiddies and the 35 year old guys that live in their mom's basement( ).

[MikeFez]

haha, I like your technique... I do have the tools, but I like how yours came out so I might do it your way lol

[henmill]

well done m8!

[Xboxplaya978]

I forgot to mention before, this is really my first case mod, unless you count the jewel hole as a case mod.

[grim_d]

I forgot to mention before, this is really my first case mod, unless you count the jewel hole as a case mod.

well ya. since you modified the jewel and the case behind it.

[sicknasty413]

I would say that 95% of the time I dont use my drive, and when I do its for playing on XBL, I use XBC because its free and I can swear at the little kiddies and the 35 year old guys that live in their mom's basement( ).

hahahaha, i know a 26 year old who lives with his parents, his grandmother, a cat, and a ferret. He gets like fastfood everyday and weighs like 300 pounds. And he stills goes to school. hahahahaha

Anyways, thats a very nice cut. I wish i did mine that way.. well mines basically the same except i didnt curve it around the jewel like you did.

But yea, nice job.

This post has been edited by sicknasty413: Apr 29 2006, 11:45 AM

[grim_d]

hahahaha, i know a 26 year old who lives with his parents, his grandmother, a cat, and a ferret. He gets like fastfood everyday and weighs like 300 pounds. And he stills goes to school. hahahahaha

that's not funny man, he needs help...like seriously

[sicknasty413]

that's not funny man, he needs help...like seriously

hahaha... yea. I always play halo 2 with him though... well.. its more like he always joins me and my friends while were on halo 2... Isnt kind of weird that a 26 year-old's only "friends" are 15 year-olds that live across the country??? [cough] petafile [/cough]

hahaha

But anyways, you need that spindle dealy on the dvd drive, or else your dvd drive is pointless...

[whiteblazer01]

Looks good.