Spray Paint

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.

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.)

Yeah, I agree with Force here- touch up paint for a car works great.

Seal it when you're done. (Unless you do use touch up paint, which usually has the sealant mixed in the pain).

If you don't seal it (a lot of cases out now, which are rather expensive, don't seal their pain job) you'll be able to scratch the pain off with your fingers.

Spray Paint or AirBrushing would give the smoothest paint job. But, touch up paint is applied with a brush ... so ... good luck there, just remember not to glob it on, that always looks bad.

Forceflow said:
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.

I read up and they said to use Vynl Dye instead of spray paint. Dont know why though. But I will definatly stay away from brush-on paint, I'll suck hard at it.

Sim said:
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? :razz:

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I want to do something and since I have no money to upgrade my computer some modding is my next best thing. Since my corner desk is already black, it looks strange having a white monitor sitting on it. Even my stereo speakers are black and grey. So I'll be painting that and my mouse, possibly my keyboard if I find a way.

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.

ReNo said:
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 :wink:

Dude, don't tinker with the innards then...dangerous stuff of legend is hidden inside monitor casing - components of electrocution +12 and all kinds of other things!

Too late. There isnt a component in my computer that hasent been turned inside out... 'cept for my hard drive. I dont want to risk that one. Supposedly they seal it in a clean room so I dont want to open that.

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.

Hornpipe2 said:
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 :razz:

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.

Gorbachev said:
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 :razz: ) 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.

Well, I've opened up 2 monitors in the past and havent had any shock "encounters" yet. :smile:

Hornpipe2 said:
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?