You can do that. The general rule is you can hack, cut, drill or modify parts as you please as long as it does not violate anything specifically mentioned in the rulebook.
Thank you so much for you help!
The caveat here is that that generally doesn’t apply to electronics… Although I think that is included in your qualifier, “as long as it does not violate anything specifically mentioned in the rulebook,” I just wanted to make that readily apparent. 