Pinkification Intensifies!
Apr. 27th, 2024 01:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogThe pinkification of my hardware continues! I got a more pastel pink spray paint than I used for my monitor and bike fender and yes: this is the correct shade. It's called "Candy Pop" or "Éclat de Bonbon". The latter is how I'm going to think of my keyboard. *laughs*
Disassembling the keyboard was more complicated than I expected. The older version of this had a simpler interior construction. This one has some fairly delicate ribbon cable sockets that I was worried about damaging. I ended up just masking over the keyswitches on one side, and over the keys and all on the other.
I decided to mask the entire strip of F keys at the top on each side rather than fiddle with masking the individual keys. I cut the tape to fit against the subtle groove that surrounds the area, and I think the black strips on the pink case will look fine, and will be matching accents to the center rectangle with the logo and model name that I also masked.
It needs another coat of pink tomorrow, then I'm going to do a gloss clear coat over that. Hopefully it will be ready to use in 2 or 3 days! Actually though, it was time to switch over to my Model M anyway (which is why now was the time for the painting project.
The next project is to do my other two 19" IBM / Lenovo monitors.
Disassembling the keyboard was more complicated than I expected. The older version of this had a simpler interior construction. This one has some fairly delicate ribbon cable sockets that I was worried about damaging. I ended up just masking over the keyswitches on one side, and over the keys and all on the other.
I decided to mask the entire strip of F keys at the top on each side rather than fiddle with masking the individual keys. I cut the tape to fit against the subtle groove that surrounds the area, and I think the black strips on the pink case will look fine, and will be matching accents to the center rectangle with the logo and model name that I also masked.
It needs another coat of pink tomorrow, then I'm going to do a gloss clear coat over that. Hopefully it will be ready to use in 2 or 3 days! Actually though, it was time to switch over to my Model M anyway (which is why now was the time for the painting project.
The next project is to do my other two 19" IBM / Lenovo monitors.
