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Originally Posted by Wooster
I don't know about you, but I like to take good care of my laptop. But hey, neither of us have painted our laptops. Let's ask a guy who has.
Hey Spiike, does the paint on your laptop chip a lot?
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Originally Posted by Onion
LMAO!
How often does the paint on your car even get touches by anything? Your car dosnt flex like the plastic on your laptop does also.
Plus the reason it WILL chip is because spray painting it with a can puts an extremely thick coat of paint on....
You must not know much about painting...
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Sorry for slow response time. Senior + prelaw = extremely busy.
Also, no need for condescending remarks in my thread. thanks.
My laptop is as good as the first day I painted it. I also take it to class everyday. I've dropped things on it and bumped it against the desk when i was in class. The corners do rub off a little, but I just dip a qtip in paint and brush it on, and the corners are good as new. There are swirl marks only because I got lazy and stopped waxing the laptop, but one coat of paint cleaner/wax should take those off which I'll do after the semester is over.
My friend however has a d600 that I painted in a solid marine blue 5 coats on all parts and he dropped the battery charger from about 4 feet onto the painted case. There was about a 1/2 inch chip that I had to bondo/prime/repaint to get it to look like new.
Painting from a can isn't as bad as you say it is, but it takes practice to lay down coats evenly. Also paint does flex, especially car paint (which is why I chose to use it), so the thin plastic parts dont have any appearance of cracking as you would think.
Black is a very very hard color to paint. People have pm'ed me and complained that it looks very matte or they can't get it glossy, or there are pin holes, etc etc. Because black is a color that you can see every single imperfection on the surface. So if you're going to paint your laptop black, be prepared to spend a long time to get a perfect finish.
Also, private messages do get my attention much faster because I am notified through email. So if you guys have urgent questions please do pm or hit me up on aim.
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Originally Posted by cloakofdarknes
Spike - I am thinking about adding LED's to my Dell notebook. I have read the tutorals and partly understand them. Is there anyway you can go more indepth on the whole proccess from where u start cutting the wires for size to when u are about to tape them in. (creating the led wires and what not.) I understand the tapeing and instaling to the usb port but dont fully understand how to make the complete circuit between the headers and the led's. If you could go in depth on this subject or creat a short movie explaning it that would be great I understand you are busy with school but summer is coming up very soon. if any one could create a movie or more in depth pic on the proccess I would greatly appreceate it. Thanks Darknessheir
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I'm not sure how else to explain it. You can just measure by hand the length of wires you need to cut, and I can't post the specific measures for my wires because it's different for d600, xps, 9200, etc. The complete circuit on the headers is made by wiring one side of the header to the ground and the other to the positive wire. When you stick an led on the header it completes teh circuit. I'm not sure how else I can explain it. If you've never ever done this before try making a mock setup with a battery instead of the usb ports.
I'm really busy at school, so I dont have time to create a video.
Hope this helped
Spiike
