VCR Mod

This was first adventure into case modding and it taught me a lot about plastics. They stink like hell when you cut and grind them. This project was functionally finished and need the top cover put on. Some little details here and there. The problem was that the power supply decide to fritz out and just not work like it should. That would be fine if there were a decent replacement for the power supply available. Since there isn't, there is now just a hole in the back where a bad power supply should be. Not very easy to cover up this huge hole I had cut out. So it just came down to abandoning the project and scrapping it.


Gutted the casing of the VCR and test fitted everything.
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Some of the parts going to be used, the floppy drive was scrapped.
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These were the parts I was going to use, but I decided to scrap them.
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I made a mounting plate out of parts from the VCR internals and did some more test fitting.
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The cover stripped of paint and them repainted gloss black.
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Mounting the slim CD-ROM from an old Compaq Armada.
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Two is better than one! Extra parts since I messed up the tape slot cover from the first one.
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Wiring Eject button on the front jog dial from the old VCR parts to hook up to the CD-ROM to eject it.
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CD-ROM mounted with the eject button wired up.
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Finally! Its up and running! Just to be later torn apart and scrapped.
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