Gonna paint my TR2 black
Posted: 10 January 2005 10:46 AM
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[quote author=“Rahul”]it will look like a prettier IBM
Posted: 10 January 2005 10:53 AM
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[quote author=“OnMyWayUp”]“The grainy metallic surface is magnesium, if it helps.” -Drachen
It’s a thin Mg shell over plastic. That plastic underneath will still melt.
Posted: 10 January 2005 10:57 AM
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[quote author=“Drachen”][quote author=“OnMyWayUp”]“The grainy metallic surface is magnesium, if it helps.” -Drachen
It’s a thin Mg shell over plastic. That plastic underneath will still melt.
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Posted: 10 January 2005 11:16 AM
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Beyond that, the white part is all plastic…
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Posted: 10 January 2005 12:24 PM
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Well if you use a quality paint you shouldn’t have any problem with scratching, at least no more then any other laptop’s paint.
If you really need to overdue it, you could always clear coat it*
Anyhow I’m looking forward to seeing the outcome.
*I’m not really sure if you can clear coat plastic but its an idea to look into.
Posted: 10 January 2005 01:07 PM
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You can clear coat plastic…someone painted their clie black on cliesource a while back, maybe you should search for the thread to give you pointers.
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Posted: 10 January 2005 04:27 PM
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I have seen the Clie balck and Vaios do not look good when they are shiny, they look better when they have a matt finish. I might opt for GUNMETAL color instead….sort of like burnish silver black….kind of look…if u get what i mean….
Posted: 13 February 2005 02:39 PM
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now that i am back home for a while…for the last few weeks i have been experimenting with tearing apart the tr2….so far i managed to dismantle everything apart and put it back in in one piece….so…in a month or so the major paint work will begin….now is to get all the decals ready fro the keyboard and so on
Posted: 13 February 2005 08:05 PM
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This is really going to be interesting. A black TR… an S maybe?
Posted: 13 February 2005 08:25 PM
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... rather an ASUS w5 ...
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Posted: 13 February 2005 09:33 PM
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Ohh man if you could pull this off on the TR you would be a god…
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Posted: 13 February 2005 11:09 PM
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the fingerprints would drive me insane
Posted: 13 February 2005 11:31 PM
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I hope it doesn’t turn out like that Clie, because that kind of looks like a park bench/tar black, and not in a good way…
Posted: 14 February 2005 05:39 AM
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Wow….that metalic mirror like look is totally awesome! It definitely rejuvenated the Z505 model…. almost like carbon fiber finish on X505SP.
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Posted: 14 February 2005 05:55 AM
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[quote author=“hshau”]I hope it doesn’t turn out like that Clie, because that kind of looks like a park bench/tar black, and not in a good way…
Ever seen it in person? That one wasn’t tar black or smooth at all. It was a lot like powder coat matte black except smoother. It still had a nice texture to it. I loved it. It was much nicer than the gloss plastic that covers every other piece of personal technology these days.
