I lopped both side off the badly borked 6100 lid. I did the HDD side to test that out before hinting to uni that the FDD needed to go.
There's no way in the world to manage hacking those spindly plastics short of hot gluing a lot of it to a wooden support form. You'd likely still break off the "neck" under the "chin" even doing it that way.
I wouldn't want to try to do a kluge like that just to retain an FDD in a CD-ROM equipped Mac. The FDD was dead as a door nail by the time CD Bays (with CDs in the majority of them) became commonplace on Macs.
If economies of scale hadn't brought about the CD revolution in time, software would have shipped on Zip Disks and every Mac past the NuBus PPCs would need to be hacked to have FDDs in them.
There's no way in the world to manage hacking those spindly plastics short of hot gluing a lot of it to a wooden support form. You'd likely still break off the "neck" under the "chin" even doing it that way.
I wouldn't want to try to do a kluge like that just to retain an FDD in a CD-ROM equipped Mac. The FDD was dead as a door nail by the time CD Bays (with CDs in the majority of them) became commonplace on Macs.
If economies of scale hadn't brought about the CD revolution in time, software would have shipped on Zip Disks and every Mac past the NuBus PPCs would need to be hacked to have FDDs in them.