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[wonko]

Since I don't plan on ever taking my computer out of the country, is there a way to remove the voltage switch that selects the different voltages from my psu?  It really doesn't work with my current project, and was hoping I could just do away with it.  Seems to me it's just a switch that can be removed so you can hard wire the wires together.  Am I wrong?

[viridius]

As long as you can correctly ascertain which wires to connect together, you should be fine.

[merlinicorpus]

If memory serves, that switch is just has two high voltage wires going into it.  Cut the switch off, turn it to 110, and use a multimeter to check for continuity.  If there is, just solder the two wires together.  If there isn't just tape them off.

[Skylined]

That can be done.

As merlinicorpus already said, before you do that, check if the switch shorts or opens the circuit when the switch is set to 110V.
If it opens the circuit, just desolder the cables off the PCB.
If it shorts the circuit, solder a cable.

I did this with a PSU that I have, and it's working right now with my server.
In my case, here we have 220V, and when I tested the swticth for continuity, it opened the circuit when 220V was selected, so I just desoldered the cables off the PCB. You can see it in this pic.

[wonko]

Thanks to all.  I'll try continuity and go from there.