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Clear sealer! (Case Mod)

  • 19-08-2005 01:40PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭


    Looking for a clear plastic sealer to apply to a computer case!
    Want to be able to apply this via brush or something that i can manipulate where it goes. The only thing i have used is the stuff from Fibre Glass boat kits and thats usually red. Saw something ages ago that was perfect but damned if i can remember where or when; it was a paintable clear acrylic that once buffed looked like glass coating. Use something similar for fake eyeballs.

    Any help and i would be much appreciated.
    Nukem


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭gline


    Nukem wrote:
    Looking for a clear plastic sealer to apply to a computer case!
    Want to be able to apply this via brush or something that i can manipulate where it goes. The only thing i have used is the stuff from Fibre Glass boat kits and thats usually red. Saw something ages ago that was perfect but damned if i can remember where or when; it was a paintable clear acrylic that once buffed looked like glass coating. Use something similar for fake eyeballs.

    Any help and i would be much appreciated.
    Nukem

    clear silicone sealer (mastic sealing) is available in some hardware stores


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭Nukem


    Can i buff that to a nice finish and is it fairly spreadable. Want to get the most even finish all overthe case.Cheers :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭gline


    Nukem wrote:
    Can i buff that to a nice finish and is it fairly spreadable. Want to get the most even finish all overthe case.Cheers :D

    all over the case...no. It is used to seal around windows etc, used for sealing joints, not whole surfaces


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭Nukem


    Ha ha i thought you ment a hard silicone sealer. Thats just silicone that you use in a gun. Thats far too sh!tty. This would have to harden and form a hard sheel. Thanks anyways,

    Nukem


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭gline


    dont really understand what u are trying to do tbh, lol


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭Nukem


    I thoughts that i explained it poorly.
    Ok what im doin is maybe painting the case a candy red or a dark night blue.
    The i use some of those silver fine sprinkles and scatter them all over the case as evenly as possible! With me so far? The i need a sealer,laminat cover,acrylic paste or whatever to cover the paint and the sprinkles and i will buff it down with a soft polishing pad!

    With the acrlyic sealer you will give the case finish a more 3D look!
    Hope that explains it better. Its a ver experimental thing but have an old case to mess with

    nukem


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭gline


    Nukem wrote:
    I thoughts that i explained it poorly.
    Ok what im doin is maybe painting the case a candy red or a dark night blue.
    The i use some of those silver fine sprinkles and scatter them all over the case as evenly as possible! With me so far? The i need a sealer,laminat cover,acrylic paste or whatever to cover the paint and the sprinkles and i will buff it down with a soft polishing pad!

    With the acrlyic sealer you will give the case finish a more 3D look!
    Hope that explains it better. Its a ver experimental thing but have an old case to mess with

    nukem
    i get u now. so u want it to look like there is a layer of ice/glass over the sprinkles?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭Nukem


    gline wrote:
    i get u now. so u want it to look like there is a layer of ice/glass over the sprinkles?
    As muttley says *ya ya ya*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 482 ✭✭heffo9


    try a motor factors, they sell clear lacquer about €5 for an aerosol, it is used to seal paint work on cars.
    i've used it several times on car bodywork. you can then apply car wax to bring up a full shine.
    just try a tester of your paint work b 4 doing the whole lot.
    to see if your happy with it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,227 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    yeah you'd be looking for something like this
    http://www.autogeek.net/w893351930.html

    so id say a motor factors would be able to assist ya like said above.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 968 ✭✭✭Adeptus Titanicus


    I've used the lacquer too and it works a treat. I did a job on painting a beige DVD writer aluminium and chrome (kinda chrome), and the lacquer has made it last through a great deal of button pushing :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭Nukem


    Thansks lads! May have another bum case to practise on soon so must try and see and get a couple of that laquer stuff.

    Nukem


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