My Stealth Mod

Edward_RiD · Mar 23, 2013

So I decided I want to keep my case as sleek looking as possible so I went ahead and devoted a few hours to stealth modding my blu ray drive.

The last time I did this, I had to press the corner of the bay cover to open my drive, this time I opted for a more elegant solution and decided to go ahead and make a switch/button.

This is what my top I/O looked like before the mod

Notice the button looking thing under the reset button. It is actually just molded plastic and not a functioning button at all, all molded with the top plastic cover.

So first thing was first I decided I would go ahead and use an X-Acto Knife and carfully cut out myself a button out of that molded plastic.

After cutting that out I took apart my BluRay Drive, I soldered on some wires to the existing eject button's solder points. Drilled some holes into my BluRay Drive to run the cables through.

Next I measured how much further in the drive would be sitting in the drive bay as a result of using the original mesh covering, and went ahead and drilled some new mounting holes for the bluray drive in my case.

After that I went and bought myself a tactile button to use as the eject button, and went ahead and mounted it on some PCB and placed it on the existing pcb of the I/O of the top panel, lined up perfectly.

Soldered the wires to the button, superglued the plastic I cut out on top of the tactile button, and now viola I have a stealth drive with an eject button.

Next step is I want to get some clear sticker printing paper and print out "Eject" or just an eject symbol and put that sticker on my new button just to make it look even more stock.

Anyways past all the boring tidbits here is how it turned out.

The blue outline is the button I made that ejects the drive.

And the drive opened

I know on the right hand side of the button there is a scoff mark, its not too noticeable but when I get a day off I will go ahead and buff it out/fill it so its not visible at all.