@Crater - Alexander,
Before you do anything like that, please check out this post from the RASDR team:
…and this post that specifically talks about board mods:
It may speak only to an enclosure for the Lime used for Radio Astronomy, but that group focuses exclusively on that using the LimeSDR. You may want to see what they’ve done prior to doing anything too extreme on your LimeSDR. It always makes my skin crawl when I see anyone suggesting that they’re going to take parts off their LimeSDR board, so PLEASE don’t do that until you’ve spoken to members of that RASDR team that have got this running on their Limes. Doing a search on ‘Radio Astronomy’ in the search tool for the forum will pull up numerous posts by Hams and researchers who have already blazed this trail.
Hope this helps - 73 de Marty, KN0CK