Painting Macs (was: fake NeXT)

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Tue Jul 14 16:15:05 1998

On Jul 14, 6:50, Russ Blakeman wrote:
> Use paints that have glue type solvents, ones with toluene, acetone and
xylene
> that will melt into the finsih below and/or plastic and bond after
sanding
> with 400 sandpaper, works great.

[snip]

> After it dries overnight (esp black) clean it down with a sponge and then
dry
> it off and the excess dust of overspray will be gone, just like a factory
> finish.

Philips used to supply small runs of OEM monitors which were spray-painted
in custom colours, instead of using different coloured plastic.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Tue Jul 14 1998 - 16:15:05 BST

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