Hello all fellow slim users, I've been planning to paint the metal plate on my 'black' SB3 to match my other equipment for a while now and the recent threads about the new real black SB3 just pushed me to it.
Having heard about the plate being just glue on, I thought I would just pull the plate, sand it, paint it with a nice shinny black acrylic and stick it back. Easy enough isn't it. But removing the plate was quite harder than I thought. The glue, at least on my sample, was well spreaded out and the plate was stuck stiff. Enough so that I damaged it while removing it. It is quite thin and made of a soft metal that got slightly 'bended/kinked' while being pulled on. Damn! I could probably manage to flatten it out but ... Noticing that the plastic under the plate is the same as the display part, what I did is this: - Use rubbing alcool to gently disolve and remove the glue chunks. This took quite a while. Being carefull not to touch the display plastic. - Use a bit peanut butter to gently rub out the remaining glue film (I know this sounds weird but I've used peanut butter as a gentle abrasive more than once with great success) - Finally use Windex to get rid of the final film on the plastic and bring a nice shine The result is a nice full black SB3. I can see some parts inside through the bottom part too, which I like. I thought I'd share this experience but your mileage may vary. Oh, and I'm not reponsible if you do it and scratch your display. You'll find a picture attached. It looks even better in person... Sincerly yours, Donald +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: DSC_2218.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2111| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- dpayeur ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dpayeur's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7394 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30450 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
