Changes
* A Double Contacted Perfboard (160x100)
* A Soldering Iron / Solder
* A Hot-glue Pistol
* A Vacuum Pump for Desoldering (if you make a mistake)
* Some 40way Ribbon Cable
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Now you need a hot-glue pistol to glue the connector to your perfboard PCB.
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Now you can mount the metal bracket back to the frame, install the LCD and fix it with a small strip of tape or some hot-glue.
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As you can see I made a nice cable harness and it's flexible enough not to damage the HxC PCB or the LCD.
The next steps should be done very slowly and carefully, with lots of patience and please do an exact measurement for cutting out the slot and the micro switches. The Slot is 3cm above the table surface and its a bit tricky to do that, but I know you can do it. Patience is most important and you will get a good result.
Lets see, drill, cut and file now:
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A bit rough no? Not looking nice..... I can do that better !
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Connect your new 3inch HxC now to your CPC and do a full function test. If its working fine, we can continue with some more great case modding.
The next step is to drill the 3 holes for the microswitches. I am using the same switches like Lotharek did but larger diameter of 8mm. I soldered 3 microswitches at a perfboard pcb in a row. The space between them is about 0.75 cm but please measure this yourself to be sure. I used the middle and did it like this:
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