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Aluminum Cinema Display > Plastic Cinema Display case swap?
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Someone in our office killed their 20" Aluminum Cinema Display this week. Instead of letting them throw it on the curb, I said I'd take it and try to put the internals of my plastic 20" Cinema inside it. Does anyone have any experience with this? Can I simply open the two cases, swap in the good LCD and go?
And does anyone have a recipe for getting the Aluminum case opened? It looks completely seamless and I don't see any fasteners anywhere.
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Toronto
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Turn it into a fish tank.
Oh wait.... an ant farm!
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Yose.
Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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What do you mean by 'killed'? It is not like it couldn't be fixed… What a shame BTW, such a beautiful display…
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Northern Illinois
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If you take apart a cinema display, take pictures. Your ah..... are going somewhere nobody has been and talked about it. You may want to be mindfull of electrical saftey. I have no idea what power is applied in a LCD (CRT displays/ TVs can be dangerous). You would want to keep a small portion of the plastic frame inside of the aluminum frame to insulate from the aluminum frame. Your dealing with chassis grounding issues. 1) You do not want to have any power accidentally applied to the aluminum frame. 2) Besides the third prong on the power cord (line ground), you can also have chassis ground problems. I'll let an electrical whiz comment on that. I like your idea.
(Last edited by Captain Curt; Sep 1, 2006 at 03:58 AM.
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Mac Pro 2.66, 30 inch Apple Cinema Display, Scansnap S510m, Brother 4070cdw, MX Revolution
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: New Windsor, NY
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the ant farm idea is awsome, id bet it would sell on ebay pretty quickly, lol.
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