Cutting the bottom cover?

What tool to use for cutting the plastic (thickness about 2.5mm)?
---------------
Another question, how to do a 3 pin fan to usb mod?

 

dremel?
hobby saw?

if dremmel, low setting because it will melt if it spins too fast...

 

Hobby Saw for sure.

 

if your not quite as manly and powertoolsish as the others ...
try some metal shears. a good heavy duty pair of those babies can cut straight through a coil of 16 gauge wire (chainmailing, anyone?) or probably about the same thickness of sheet metal. clean cut too!

 

Just trying to be helpful.

 

so you have a W-I-D-E screen then PurpleSkyz?

 

If you need to ask what tool, you probably should stop now before you hurt yourself or your laptop.

Any particular reason for cutting it?
Please don't say to "improve" the cooling, laptop cooling is often very precision work. If you really need that kind of power and cooling you should consider a desktop. Which is also bucket loads cheaper when you end up damaging something.

 

What that poster says.

 

Dremel MOST CERTAINLY. That will do pretty much anything you need to do precision wise.

@PurpleSkyz
They're about to take out my favorite pub with that thing!!

 

I call your saw and raise you one further:

 

blunt but true... i have to agree...

it requires a certain amount of research and experience even in using a hobby saw... (i tried to mod a car model way back when... needless to say... it was a mistake)

even a dremel requires practice.

 

damn it, why didnt google get that for me when I asked it too ><

 

Because its not a saw and those "teeth" are gigantic buckets.

 

It's for better cooling, cuz the cover completely covered the intake fan and caused about 15C+ temp. difference. It was a small cut, however before doing it, I did some practicing with the Dremel tool with a plastic cutting bit. Also added some extra fan filter :

 

Same avatar from xs. I read some of your post in watercooling section lol

 

heya... yes, i'm the same in wherever i go...

 

not been very active now on xs since my watercooling box sold

 

same here... i decided a year ago, to just buy a nice laptop and lay off the desktops for now...

it seemed to be an endless chase for the newest...

given time and money, i'd love to make my own case tho... but meh...
great forum tho...