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From: Kenneth J Price on 12 Sep 2008 09:09
I bought a GDR-8081N Dvd Rom Drive on ebay($7) and installed it in my
elderly Dell GX-150(ebay $45).The Dell website offered this same drive for
sale as an upgrade part , so I thought it would fit. The left side of the
front bezel was about 1/8" inch too wide and hung up on the case. Out came
my Dremel Roto-tool.BZZZT.It fits now.


From: William R. Walsh on 12 Sep 2008 12:26
Good tip, especially for an older machine.

The same drive mechanism will be provided to many manufacturers, and
oftentimes the outer bezel is the only thing that changes to meet the
needed specifications for use in the finished product.

William
From: Ben Myers on 12 Sep 2008 15:48
Sometimes a laptop drive has all sorts of mounting hardware to adopt it to fit
in a specific laptop chassis. The drive underneath is industry-standard, so the
mounting hardware can be removed and/or added for use elsewhere. But the bezel
is always the tricky part. Dremel is our friend... Ben Myers

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:26:47 -0700 (PDT), "William R. Walsh"
<wm_walsh(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>Good tip, especially for an older machine.
>
>The same drive mechanism will be provided to many manufacturers, and
>oftentimes the outer bezel is the only thing that changes to meet the
>needed specifications for use in the finished product.
>
>William
From: Daddy on 13 Sep 2008 00:02
But what did you pay for the Dremel?

Daddy


"Kenneth J Price" <kenneth_price(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:0Qtyk.98$fD.11(a)flpi145.ffdc.sbc.com...
>I bought a GDR-8081N Dvd Rom Drive on ebay($7) and installed it in my
> elderly Dell GX-150(ebay $45).The Dell website offered this same drive for
> sale as an upgrade part , so I thought it would fit. The left side of the
> front bezel was about 1/8" inch too wide and hung up on the case. Out came
> my Dremel Roto-tool.BZZZT.It fits now.
>
>
>
From: Ben Myers on 13 Sep 2008 00:29
I suppose you are suggesting that people should not run out and buy a Dremel
tool just to modify a $10 laptop DVD-ROM drive? True, not exactly
cost-effective. But now that I have a Dremel, I find lots of good uses for it,
computers and otherwise. I did a very utilitarian case mod on an old beige full
tower ATX case so I could cram lots of devices into it than a modern day tower
usually holds. It still has one open half-height 3.5" bay out of six. I had to
grind down the area where a standard backplate goes... Ben Myers

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:02:15 -0400, "Daddy" <daddy(a)not.valid.net> wrote:

>But what did you pay for the Dremel?
>
>Daddy
>
>
>"Kenneth J Price" <kenneth_price(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:0Qtyk.98$fD.11(a)flpi145.ffdc.sbc.com...
>>I bought a GDR-8081N Dvd Rom Drive on ebay($7) and installed it in my
>> elderly Dell GX-150(ebay $45).The Dell website offered this same drive for
>> sale as an upgrade part , so I thought it would fit. The left side of the
>> front bezel was about 1/8" inch too wide and hung up on the case. Out came
>> my Dremel Roto-tool.BZZZT.It fits now.
>>
>>
>>
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