Recent content by ValleyGirrl1984

it's funny, cause i am making it funny on purpose... :0

umm AGAIN if all i did was drill a hole in the case and cut out a piece then ya, you're right. But I did waaayyy more than that - and typed it out. Look up... testing the motherboard, replace it. tested the psu, replaced it. figured out how to make the flip switch still work by wiring a button...

I have NEVER jailbroken a phone. don't need to. don't understand why people would do that. I understand why people would want to UNLOCK their phone (so they can use it on another carrier) but that's something different. If you jailbreak your phone the software never runs right either and you...

well, you don't have to have had fire as the theme to your high school prom to know something about tech stuff lol... but sure - I respect the old techs... there's a lot to learn from them. they know a lot. and it's a piece of history. something most people don't get... I personally came up...

building a computer from the outside in, IS IT work. If I just was slapping the case together, I would agree. But... I found a mint 286 case from 1992. Tested the electronics and they were dead. Parts of the MB were working, but too many capacitors had blown and some of the solider had gone...

ya I don't believe you. does your mommy know you're on the computer by yourself? shouldn't you be taking your meds about now?

Nah. I don't do case modding. Not often. I have a dremel 35,000 rpm, black and decker), it works great, I have lots of accessories for it. I just don't have a good place to use it... Far too many sparks, I will catch my apt on fire if I use it here often... Cutting through a rod is about all I...

ya the wiss worked well on the thinner gauge test piece of scrap metal I had. Cut through it like butter - SO easy to use. That's why I was taken back with the absolute failure to cut the case... No matter - the gauge must have been more than I thought for the case... But then I don't really...

Building a working 286 computer for a PAYING CLIENT is not a hobby. It's called IT work. You know computers, smart phones, networks, and the like... It's all stuff I work on. Hobby... NOT!!!!! Anything that uses electricity and can burn down your house if you don't use it right - is something...

OK some of you know what you're talking about, the rest don't. I just got back from home depot a bit ago - bought the bullfrog snips someone on here suggested (thanks for that too btw!) and they worked. in about 5 minutes i did the job I knew I could do with the snips. A clean job too. i did buy...

ya i hear you - i know as a girl i am not as strong as a guy. i am not weak like some girls, being a tech in most of my corporate jobs you have to be able to lug around printers - so i am usually good with up to 80 lbs of dead weight... and with the snips i bought i CAN cut the practice sheet...

no double layer. it's all one layer, although at the corners it is folded up - but it's never two layers anywhere.. guess i will find out tomorrow as i plunge ahead with tin snips and nibbler. hopefully one or both will work - otherwise, get your "i told you sos" ready.. lol if you could tho...

just to make sure i understand how the guages go... the bigger the number, the thinner the sheet metal - right? so a 23 is thinner than 20? so... a snips that says it cuts up to a 23 won't cut a 20, right? it cuts all the number higher than 23, not lower? just making sure i got that right in...

really? tinner snips won't work? but it says they are good for up to 20 guage - which is what I am thinking this sheet metal is. hmmm... bulldog snips. will check it out and see who makes them. i will be taking the case with me - it's just the empty, bottom part. i will try the tinner snips in...

ah ha!!!! the electronics store around the corner carries nibblers for $10 each -- all electronics, I just learned of their existance a week or two ago... they are handy. so - i go to osh - exchange the snips for TINNER SNIPS which are the ones i shoulda gotten in the first place... then...