Integrating the TVs... Will they fit..? Time has come to fit the TVs into our cabinet. Luck was our friend this night, the TVs fitted right in without the removal of the rear cover, great! The old monitors had a gray plastic-edge that framed the monitors. Since our new TVs are totally flat, we neeed to cut away some of these plastic-framings. What on earth can we use to cut old thick plastic..? The answer is NOT a compass saw! But if you run out of ideeas late at night... By the way, Thorstein sports handy sandals for this perticular task, while Geir chose nice shoes made from crocodile skin... Cutting plastic using a blade made for wood is not recommended. It shook like hell and was heavy in the beginning. After a while, the blade got hot and we started melting our way through the plastic instead, great! The downside was that the plastic melted together the moment the blade had passed, so we had to do the whole process again... The next round of cutting went better and after a quick round of sandingpaper we are ready to see how they fit. They fit!! The plastic surround is in place and we are tired but proud. But then we start thinking about what to do whenever we turn the machine off and then on again the next morning... The TVs don't remember to switch to AV1-input thus requirering us to manually change channel with the remote, but the plastic surround covers the IR-recievers! A quick round of discussing ends in a stripdown of our brand new (and expensive!) TVs to solder out the IR-recievers and move these to the plastic surround at the front of the cabinet. We're off! Some classic warnings come to mind.. "Opening this product will void your warranty", "Service should only be performed by qualified service-personell", or even worse: "DANGER! HIGH VOLTAGE - 30.000V!". Probably just old propaganda, pass me the screwdriver! This circuit-board holds the IR-diode. This is the diode, heat your soldering iron! This image shows two things; The IR-diode and what a great macro-function the digital camera has.. :p A poor old computer-mice lost it's tail when we needed a cable to move the IR-diode out of the TV-housing. Function-testing completed, it works! Proud technicians cheer! We drilled a small hole in the plastic-surround and fixed the IR-diodes with glue. It works like a charm! [<<- Page 4: New equipment!]   [Page 5 - Integrating the TVs...]   [Page 6: Modifying the pedals ->>]