I'm looking to paint parts of my case and the face plates of my floppy and CD drives. I tryed using old model liquid paint but it didnt turn out pretty. I painted a piece of scrap, a very old floppy face plate.
Anyways, I guess a good way to go would be spray paint. Just wondering if anyone's got experience painting computer components and would like to offer a few tips.
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Use paint they use for cars ... always works.
Clean your surfaces very well before you start to spraypaint them (and make sure they're dry too.)
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Use paint they use for cars ... always works. Clean your surfaces very well before you start to spraypaint them (and make sure they're dry too.) |
In corporation they use electrolosis to spray paint cars.
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Yeah, car spray works, but remember that if you spray your face plates then if you get a new case you will have odd looking drives and would have to spray your case again with the same colour unless you get a new computer as well.
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Yeah, car spray works, but remember that if you spray your face plates then if you get a new case you will have odd looking drives and would have to spray your case again with the same colour unless you get a new computer as well. |
or maybe spray the faceplates again to match the new case? 
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| ? posted by ReNo |
| Dunno how you will ensure you don't get spraypaint inside your monitor vents...I can imagine that wouldn't be a wise thing to allow. |
lol ReNo.. I got that covered. Unscrew the casing and take it off of course 
| ? posted by Hornpipe2 |
| I fixed a bad connection in my TV up with a soldering iron. It's not really a big deal if you know what's wrong with it. You do have to be careful though - not only are those capacitors deadly for days, but the glass tube itself is dangerous too. Since there's a vacuum in there, if you smack it too hard (and I mean in the back - the front is half-inch thick glass or more and can stop small bullets) you'll totally destroy the TV or at worst, it will implode and throw glass shards around the room. You could always just put a screwdriver across the capacitor terminals if you're a TV technician but it sounds like a gunshot going off. EDIT: Don't do this. |
Of course you put this last in your post that way we all know what to do before he tells us not to do it
| ? posted by Gorbachev |
| The capacitors in your monitor store enough "kick" for years to kill you. Be forwarned that the suggestions of "Don't touch" should be heeded especially in the case of a monitor. |
i suspect the capacitors in a tv/monitor hold more juice than the one in those little cardboard cameras. even so, the little one from the carera had enough to make me think that someone with big powerful hands had grabbed my arms from behind, and hoisted me to my feet.
when i realised it was the little circuit board, i was quite impressed by it, and very carefully picked it up again. just to make sure it was fully discharged, i shorted the two ends of the capacitor on a metal bar. i s**t myself (figuratively ) with the resulting spark/bang. i stopped playing with it then, and put it in the bin.
as that was only powered by a crappy little 1.5v battery, then i really wouldn't like to know what a taser blast from a monitor/tv feels like.
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| You could always just put a screwdriver across the capacitor terminals if you're a TV technician but it sounds like a gunshot going off. EDIT: Don't do this. |
Do you know from experience? 
