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That's a nice rivet tool Nate, but the craftsman I bought will accept larger rivets by using alternate nose pieces.

The one in the link is pretty much identical to the one I have, the nose pieces are in the front of the handle, so I've been able to do the different size rivets in my case with it...

 

I'd agree that it sounds like you haven't removed the rivets. If you're breaking the drill bits, I'm afraid you're doing it wrong.

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Ok I was able to remove the rivets and take out the drive bay cages after some hard careful work.

 

Both Drive Cages removed:

 

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The case completely naked :( :

 

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As you can see all over my moms kitchen chairs that taking out rivets leaves a big mess:

 

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Time to get out the vacuum!:

 

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Be sure to vacuum the case out cause the mess and blasting out the case with a can of air is recommended since tiny pieces of the rivets went everywhere:

 

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So far so good. I still can't paint today cause it's raining the whole day. I pulled my car out of the garage but my mom's stuff is still freaking everywhere!! Oh and thanks alot Hardnrg, I appreciate the advice!

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my advice now is to carry on deriveting the case until there are no rivets left, and you are left with individual metal parts, but not on the kitchen chairs! :lol:

 

at least do it on the floor with some newspaper or an old bedsheet if you are gonna carry on in the kitchen...

 

kitchen workshop... lol... next you'll turn your bathroom into a paint booth :lol:

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my advice now is to carry on deriveting the case until there are no rivets left, and you are left with individual metal parts, but not on the kitchen chairs! :lol:

 

at least do it on the floor with some newspaper or an old bedsheet if you are gonna carry on in the kitchen...

 

kitchen workshop... lol... next you'll turn your bathroom into a paint booth :lol:

 

lol I prefer not to de-rivet anything else cause it just becomes more and more work. I could understand doing it to the drive cages cause they were actually in the way but nothing else. But I actually might de-rivet the mobo tray cause it looks like I will be running into problems down the way cause the mobo tray left a little gap in the back where the cause meets the mobo tray and it might make it hard for me to paint in there.

 

 

BTW do you guys think I should wetsand before applying the clearcoat? And after the clear coat is applied do you think I should buff it with some polish to fix any paint imperfections (if there is any) and light scratches.

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kitchen workshop... lol... next you'll turn your bathroom into a paint booth :lol:
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LMAO what kind of schmuck would do that?

 

You would have to be some sort of idiot to do that....

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you're going to find it's harder to spray paint a surface at an angle, especially near the mating edges, without causing runs and drips or overspray, than to derivet and rerivet...

 

 

ok fine I'll take the whole thing apart :P

 

 

Should I really sand the surface before priming? The surface is already smooth enough to me

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sanding before priming is to prep the surface, not just to smoothen it... paint sticks to roughened surfaces better... you could use etching primer on unsanded panels though - I only sanded the exterior faces of my panels because they had that horrible paint spattering texture that most PC cases have

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sanding before priming is to prep the surface, not just to smoothen it... paint sticks to roughened surfaces better... you could use etching primer on unsanded panels though - I only sanded the exterior faces of my panels because they had that horrible paint spattering texture that most PC cases have

 

 

ok I'll sand it

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LMAO what kind of schmuck would do that?

 

You would have to be some sort of idiot to do that....

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ME! :P

Umm Queen... I think you bought too much paint. Those cans really go a long ways, but whatever its never a bad thing to have extra paint laying around. I couldn't help but notice that the case already has paint inside, not the kind you are going to use, but instead powder-coat. This would have been to prevent rust and should be expected from any case worth its rivets. :lol: I also think that this powder coat paint would make excellent primer and would require sanding only if you're really into the fine detail bs like my pops is. Any way... good luck. :thumbs-up:

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I don't know I just want to make sure everything goes well. I'm wondering did I buy the right primer? I bought all auto products cause from what I've tested auto paint is alot more durable than any arts and crafts paint from companies like Krylon. And I never powder coated before. So are you guys saying I should sand everything down before starting?

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