For those of you who desire tempered glass for your DG case, I thought I'd create this post with a picture of one example of how a tempered glass upgrade can be done for fairly cheap.
This is a DG-86, but I'm sure the windows are all the same.
If you have upgraded your DG case with tempered glass please post your pictures and a brief explanation of what you used and how you did it.
I searched quite alot and even checked with custom glass shops, until I finally stumbled across a kit that would fit perfectly.
Tempered Glass Kit:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAAGV61R5393I actually used a dremmel with 2 plastic cutter bits on a dremmel. It actually cut out easier than I thought, but took some time breaking off all of the melted points after while insuring not to bend the outer metal edge.
Until you get the glass on the metal edge is extremely pliable and easy to bend so please be careful.
The best way I found to fit the glass was: the inner holes of the glass (making a square) subtracted from the outer edge of the door to get four separate points on the metal for which to drill for the standoff screws.
Once those holes were drilled I used a normal computer "thumb screw" (same threads as the standoff) and while applying significant force, tapped the holes for the thread with that.
After that was done it was just a matter of screwing in the standoffs, placing the rubber over the standoffs, fitting the new glass window, screwing the black large knurled edge screws into the standoffs and done.
The tempered glass looks amazing. I thought my acrylic door was clear, but I had no idea.
If you have any questions, please feel free to pm me. Haven't updated to mod rigs yet (site down), but here is a couple of pics.
Let me know what you think or if you have other ideas of how to upgrade these massive yet awesome cases.
This PC is at the center of our "floating" Entertainment center which is great for this "side view" type of case.
Thanks
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post edited by jackal28 - 2018/09/23 00:10:34