Disassembling case - Removing rivets

Since I removed the parts held down by screws, the next step would be to remove the rivets. This is important if you want to paint the insides or separate the panels for easier painting.

By default, the 912 advance comes with the insides painted black.

Less talk and more pictures!

Start state. The case with most screws removed.

Drilling the rivet

 Removing the rivet is pretty straight forward. I use a 3mm drill bit and just drill into the rivet. After drilling for a while, your drill bit should fall through the hole and the rivet would have dropped out.

After removing the rivet

This is a left over piece of part of the rivet on the drill bit after drilling through

And this is what happens if you are too lazy (like me) to remove each individual piece after drilling

Some screws that I missed out. This is on the front panel which holds the 2.5" HDD cage

First part to be removed, the 2.5" HDD cage

There are 3 screws holding the motherboard tray to the case

Removed all the rivets from the back panel

Plastic holders for the 3.5" HDD cage is held down by rivets too

With all the rivets removed. Each individual part separated.

Aftermath of all that drilling!

Now that I'm done separating the case, next is to come up with the design for the case and buy the necessary parts!