Project Black PC (part 9)
12th and 13th April 2007
It's time to spray the chassis parts.
I decided not to spray these parts in my flat. My friend RJ has a small open sided shed that with a few plastic sheets that on a dry day makes for a reasonable makeshift spray booth.
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First parts hung up ready for spraying. |
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Give a can of spray paint to the nearest martial arts expert and ask him to give it a good shake. |
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Always use a mask when spraying. Why is it I have to buy a new mask every time I need to replace the filters? Manufactures keep changing the design and stores never keep the replacement filters for the mask they were selling last month! |
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First coat of grey primer goes on. It looks so good I'm half tempted to do the whole PC in just grey primer, like the
55 Chevy
in
Two-Lane Blacktop. |
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More parts get primer. |
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The copper parts are sprayed... This is actually "Ford Aztec Bronze". |
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One day I'm going to make a wind chime out of PC parts. |
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The first blow over pf black before rubbing back. There are no photos of the rubbing back with wet and dry... because I wasn't about to pick up my camera with black sludge on my hands... and RJ couldn't take the photos because he had got bored and wondered off. |
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Emma brings coffee and cake... Essential for all good projects. |
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Mmmm... Satin black |
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For a cheap touch up spray the Halfords stuff isn't too bad. Note the "RJ" tag on the plastic sheet. |
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| The bezels for the musketeer... No chrome on this PC it's got to be black, green or copper... |
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Copper it is. |
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The musketeer case stripped of all its bits |
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The musketeer case rubbed down ready for painting. I was going to spray this with a crinkle black but the can failed to work... The nozzle failed spectacularly and a stream of paint went everywhere... As I write this I still have crinkle finish on the fingers of my left hand. |
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Motherboard tray in a contrasting, high temperature, very mat black. |
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I'd used up all the paint so I cleaned up and went to see what RJ was up to... |
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Seems all the excitement became a little too much. |
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