Techno-geek Roulette (or Who Makes the Coffee?)

Step 5 Putting it all Together

Use cyanoacrylate glue (superglue) to attach the decorated CD to the drive spindle. We want the disk to sit flat, and hot-glue is too bulky for this. If the spindle isn't in the right position for the disk to spin freely, you may need to find the arm or plate which moves it. Don't force anything. Once you find the right part it should move easily and lock in place. The fourth photo shows where mine was. You may need to power up the drive and press the open / close button to get it to the right state.

Once the disk is attached, this button is going to be a liability, so carefully 'disable' it with a pair of wire cutters (and the power turned off).

Bend the blanking plate so that one end sits over the top of the drive, and the other just overlaps the disk. Cut it to length at the back, and draw on the arrow with a marker pen. Hot-glue the pointer in place (third photo).

Using more hot glue, stick the flat plate from the case to the back of the drive. This will give you a flat surface at the back. Now glue this firmly to the PSU so that that the pointer is pointing down (connector at the top) and the whole assembly sits solidly on the table.

You could cut off all the wires from the PSU except the ones to the drive. If you do this, you will have to cut and strip the green wire and then twist it together with a black wire. This should then be insulated. Make sure the other wires are cleanly cut with no stray whiskers.

Or you could drape and glue the wiring looms and connectors to the drive itself to make things look more interesting, like I did. Use the hot-glue gun for this.