As this seems to be the most appropriate thread about this case........I've been doing some painting on my case......
Case interior painted and partially reassembled.
Originally posted by: Zepper
More notes: The 5" drive cage has twelve pop rivets (somehow I got the idea there were only 6, but those are just in front) there are six more - three on each side of the top. Still easier to remove them and pull the cage than trying to take a cross-brace out with the rivets in place. You'll need screws, nuts and lockwashers for remounting the top of the cage. The front already has threaded holes for screws.
.bh.
I found an easier, albeit slightly more unsightly...maybe, way to remove the cross braces from the 5" cages, if you don't mind a couple of small holes remaining after you get the cross brace out.
If you look from inside the case, just in front of the front screws holding the cross brace in......the screws that are the problem to remove, there is an indentation/hole in the front of the chassis.....as you can see in the pic below.
Pic of indentation/hole in chassis.
What I did is drill from inside a pilot hole to the outside with a 1/16" drill bit. Granted it went though slighly off-kilter, but then I used that hole as a pilot to drill from the outside with a 1/8" drill bit......resulting in this hole:
Hole from outside with 1/8" bit.
This hole was large enough to pass a Phillips screwdriver through and unscrew the cross brace front screws......without having to drill out 12 rivets and replace them with screws.
Total time it took was maybe two minutes......including removing the brace's front screws. The holes will essentially be hidden by the front panel and shouldn't be noticeable from inside...unless you specifically go looking for them.
Just another option......
I did purchase from FrozenCPU a windowed, vented side panel by Lian-Li, the W-75BP panel. While I have done my own windows into panels before, I must say this is a very well made panel....and should be for the price.
Pic of side panel.....
Pic of reverse of side panel.....
What impressed me, in addition to how well it was made, was that Lian-Li put in metal support bars along several of the edges of the window, giving the whole window and panel a lot more strutctural rigidity, something missing on a lot of other windows, esp. large ones like this one.
Oh....and the panel fits like a glove.
The vent is nice although it doesn't quite match up with the rear vent fan that's mounted in that enclosure.....the vent is just a tad lower than the fan's enclosure, which isn't surprising since the panel is for the PC-71, PC-G70, and PC-A70 cases and those cases have a dual power supply option (top and bottom) while the Rocketfish case has the top ps option removed. Instead, Lian-Li shortened the upper space a bit (a power supply no longer fits without huge mods like cutting out the rear cross support bar from the case's chassis...if you don't cut out the upper bar, a power supply will interfere with the top of the I/O cutout structure and potentially the top of a motherboard....at least the power supplies I've test fit up there, including an Enhance ENP-5150GH and a Corsair HX620, both of which are pretty much standard size power supplies), and then added that space to the area between the top of the bottom power supply and the bottom of the motherboard's slots.
Since I'm watercooling with this case and using a Thermochill 120.3 radiator, I bought a Kikbox rad grille....about the only thing out there right now that fits a Thermochill radiator. I really didn't like the Mountain Mods grille at all and a TC grille is about as rare right now as hen's teeth.
Pic of grille.
This was about the most open grille I could find.....and while most of Kikbox's grilles are not TC compatible, this one is their "universal" grille, meaning it can fit a TC rad.....notice the slots on both end fan locations, giving the grille the ability to fit both TC rads and rads like Swiftech and others like that.