As I have no drill, had to somehow deal with help of just dremel mini-cut-off wheels (mini – as leftovers from big dremeling before on top) and round grinding stone with making holes for fittings to go through:
Every ex-soviet citizen should be able to saw with drill and to drill with saw!
By putting few times rad with fittings in case I widened tubing holes with grinding stone until they fit in.
Some rough “measurements” of finalised cuts:
- rad hole sides are some 2mm from sidewall opening buttons;
- upper side is with partially grinded down tops of 2nd row cells;
- lower side is somewhere about middle of original LC grommet holes/in level with bottom of 5th from top side squared cell;
- center points for new tubing holes are cut in line with case bend to motherboard port panel top.
Test fit result:
Seems that I'd be better off leaving 4 corners not straight cut but rounded or diagonally cut.
Also looks like i'll have to redo applying of C-strip, as I badly damaged these strips when putting on fitting holes. They bend very badly that sharp :/. Otherwise, i'm happy with result. Maybe will replace c-strip on those holes with rubber grommets if they'll fit (very little space on left one). Also I should cut in half one of original Obsidian LC grommets and put in those half holes under rad.
That's it for now. Next batch of work (on both case sidewalls for new rad and casefans | and 5.25 bay & hard disk enclosure sidewalls for less resistive airpath) will be done when i'll get second (280) rad + radgrills.
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