Desktop G3 Zip/Jaz bezel

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Does anyone know anything about the bezel seen in this photo? It's from an auction on shopgoodwill.com and I've never come across a bezel like this for the Desktop G3 case before. I have an internal SCSI Jaz drive I've been planning to use without a cover plate because the disks are larger than the opening for the factory Zip disk cover. I've looked for custom plates before but nothing has ever turned up, so I'm very curious where this may have originated from.

In the photo it's hard to tell if the bezel is slightly misshapen, or if the zip drive is installed crooked. It doesn't look like it perfectly lines up which leads me to believe it's some sort of custom solution.
 

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Does anyone know anything about the bezel seen in this photo? It's from an auction on shopgoodwill.com and I've never come across a bezel like this for the Desktop G3 case before. I have an internal SCSI Jaz drive I've been planning to use without a cover plate because the disks are larger than the opening for the factory Zip disk cover. I've looked for custom plates before but nothing has ever turned up, so I'm very curious where this may have originated from.

In the photo it's hard to tell if the bezel is slightly misshapen, or if the zip drive is installed crooked. It doesn't look like it perfectly lines up which leads me to believe it's some sort of custom solution.
Wow, that looks like an aftermarket Zip drive to me. The bezel doesn’t look like it fits quite right along with the wonky drive in there hah. This link has a picture of what the zip bezel should look like for a beige g3 M6202LL/A. The bezel dimensions don’t look to match up and it’s missing the zip. It looks like a bezel for a standard 3.5 floppy spacing to me. I wonder what that came off too.
 
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