Painting a Monitor

Rollo Tamasi

i have a black dell monitor and a grey computer case with matching grey keyboard and mouse. I can't stand looking at the black monitor, its ugly out. Its kinda when you pull some ol'doll and she is wearing white undies and a black bra, and you think to yourself "jasus, she is a knacker".

Anyways, is it safe to unscrew the casing around the monitor and spray paint it? What does a flat screen monitor look like without its shell, are all the parts in the one heap?

This is probably a thick enough question actually

MunsterCycling

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

i have a black dell monitor and a grey computer case with matching grey keyboard and mouse. I can't stand looking at the black monitor, its ugly out. Its kinda when you pull some ol'doll and she is wearing white undies and a black bra, and you think to yourself "jasus, she is a knacker".

Anyways, is it safe to unscrew the casing around the monitor and spray paint it? What does a flat screen monitor look like without its shell, are all the parts in the one heap?

This is probably a thick enough question actually

You must surely be from the south side??? Painting a monitor, I've heard it all now :rolleyes::D

maidhc

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

Its kinda when you pull some ol'doll and she is wearing white undies and a black bra, and you think to yourself "jasus, she is a knacker".

Imagine an ol'doll who painted her bra to match her undies!

Wertz

Best advice I could give on this is to leave the housing on the monitor (lcd tft?), get low tack masking tape and and some sheets of A4 cut to size and mask off the actual viewable area and any swtiches, LEDs and brand logos, then use an acrylic based spray paint. Apply tow thin even coats and remove the masking ASAP (when 2nd coat is dry)

That said, I wouldn't advise doing what you're asking at all...I'd sooner hide the tower case, and buy a new k/b.

legologic

Seen this done once but on a CRT casing and tower sprayed metalic blue. You'll need plastic primer otherwise whatever you put on will just flake back off. After that I'd use nitrocellulose lacquer. To do this you have to take the casing off because of the vents etc... mask the logos etc... put down a ground sheet and your away. Leave it to dry for a few days (2 or 3) regardless of wheter it's touch dry or not after a few hours as it will need to gas off.

Rollo Tamasi

MunsterCycling wrote:

You must surely be from the south side??? Painting a monitor, I've heard it all now :rolleyes::D

south side cork? you know it. I probably should have said norrie instead of knacker thou

maidhc wrote:

Imagine an ol'doll who painted her bra to match her undies!

tie dye boy!

cheers for the advise lads

Hal1

Hey, you know the capacitors inside a crt monitor can hold a charge for days even months after you disconnect the power supply just a word of warning, dont be an idiot and fry yourself

the_syco

Eh, and make sure you don't cover the holes where the heat escapes with paint, otherwise, BOOM!

slightlycrazy

Those car spray paints work wonders. There cheap enough and work wonders. Never tried em on a monitor but used em on the casing of my dells tower. Good luck in your customisation. Is there a modding section on this site?

Sam Vimes

i can see this ending badly

Hal1

It might look like ****
Sorry for the negitive post but I tried to spray a case once, completely sanded it to bare steel and applied an arcilic based spary paint and laquer and it look terrible. Just do a bit of research into it first.

Rollo Tamasi

Hal1 wrote:

Just do a bit of research into it first.

Hense the thread! DA DAAAA! Magic!

Karoma

slightlycrazy wrote:

Is there a modding section on this site?

Yes.

A better location for the thread perhaps.

KdjaCL

Paint the case?



kdjac

Rollo Tamasi

yup