CD-RW Mod Question

[Mysphyt]

I'm planning on putting a window in my CD-RW soon, but I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to, and how I'd need to do it if I were going to.

The problem I have is this. Most CD-Rom drives have that little metal bridge across the top that houses what, in technical circles, we call that little spinny thingamajigger. In mine, the little spinny thingamajigger is actually a part of the metalk drive casing, and is right where I should be hacking away with my Dremel. How important is the little plastic thing on the top of my CD-RW? Will my drive function without it?

Can I get rid of it, or should I work around it?

[Mike K]

Try using the drive without the cover on, that will give you your answer.:)

[Ziggey]

Are you refering to this type of drive?
And if you mean the little piece of circular plastic on top of the outer shell, I would definatly leave it alone.

[Ziggey]

And what I did about it, as far as putting in a window.. This is all part of cdrw mod version 2.0. Almost complete, just letting paint dry.

[Tbird man]

try cutting thr spinny thingamajigger out and putting it in the middle of the window. if you do it like this pic it should line up

[Mysphyt]

Thanks, all. I figured it needed to stay there, so I was sort of planning on doing what Ziggey did.

[Ziggey]

Im sure it would be possible to cut it out and mount it in the window. Only thing I can see going bad with that is the window not being stable enough and causing vibrations.