Lee wrote:
|| Jan wrote:
||
||| I have a slot (cut in the case of a fully assembled computer) about
||| 90mm x 10mm. I need to extend the slot to about 94mm x 10mm.
|||
||| Is there a tool that would do this cleanly, without making any
||| metal filings such as would be caused by a metal sawblade or drill
||| bit?
|||
||| If necessary, I could get away with making two 4mm-long slots at
||| one end of the existing hole, and just bending the metal between
||| the two slots, instead of cutting it away.
|||
||| The clearance available for getting any tool into position is a 6mm
||| wide strip around the slot perimeter.
|||
||| I want to avoid metal filings, so I can avoid having to take
||| electrical parts out of the computer case.
|||
|||
||
|| Possibly a pair of "notching" metal snips, like these:
||
http://www.heimerdingercutlery.com/c...t_ID=139&CFID=
1495711&CFTOKEN=23995945
||
|| I've used such a tool, but you need a good ratchet action pair to get
|| through the tough steel used in PC cases...
|| They will still leave metal swarf of course, but it tends to stay
|| "attached" until you break it off.
||
|| Lee
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If I'm right don't think he will be able to use them in the area intened.
:-P

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