Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 20:15:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christian Kuiphoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Coloured Cases, Mouse Covers and Keys - Joint order?]
I would be very careful painting my case. Many
plastics will melt and disintegrate when they come in
contact with some types of solvents used in paints.
I have seen where people used Loctite to keep screws
from coming out of laptops and the plastic
disintegrated.
Chris
--- Karen Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 10:31:56 -0700
> From: Karen Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Coloured Cases, Mouse Covers and Keys -
> Joint order?]
>
> In my weekly internet phone conversation with my son
> last
> night, we discussed painting. In his late teens, he
> worked for
> a stove manufacturing business doing the spray paint
> jobs on
> the stoves.
>
> Latex paint is used mainly for inside houses.
>
> Enamel based paint is thicker and more likely to run
> and be
> more difficult to spray on evenly.
>
> Laquer based paint is thinner, tougher and much
> easier to
> work with in a spray paint can. If you can get a
> color you
> like from a car dealer for exterior work, that is
> the best. It
> takes about a day for each coat to dry and two coats
> is
> recommended.
>
> Be sure to use a primer first - whether it is on
> metal or the
> plastic. Primer sticks to just about anything. It
> comes in
> four basic colors (in the US at least), white, grey,
> red, black.
>
> I'm not sure what kind of paint is already on the
> Libby's; but
> it is still good to use a primer to cover it up. I
> don't know if
> spraying the mouse cover would be good or not. And I
> would
> think that taking everything out of the case first
> would be a
> good idea, eh??
>
> Anyone figure out how to remove the screen parts??
> Or
> would masking tape hurt the screen?
>
> And yes, Paul, I would think twice about this before
> doing
> it myself! In fact, would first try it on the
> INSIDE of the case
> and see how it turns out.
>
> I'm just not sure that a car dealer would have the
> particular
> shade of Fuchsia I'd like :-)
>
> Karen
> gg
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