Give Some Color to Your Macbook
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What do you need:
- Laptop that's in desperate need of some color
- Montana spray paint, color of choice.
- Paper towels
- Tweezers
- Painters tape
Clean It.
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Clean your laptop, get all the grease off it otherwise the paint won't stick.
I did it with just water but you could use something like Ajax.
Remember Your Model Number
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Take a picture or write your model number down, it might come in handy someday :D
Taping
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Instead of taking the whole computer apart and and taking all the parts out, I just taped the wholes or stuffed it with paper towels. It works really good and it saves a lot of time and reassembly confusion.
Spray It
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Everything is covered up? now you can spray it.
In the case of a macbook, the back plate is one solid piece without any wholes or anything, so I just screwed it off and painted it separately after I had sprayed the front.
I sprayed everything with two layers, and let the paint dry for about half an hour in between.
I added a triangle on top of the macbook logo, just to make it a little bit more illuminate. (not a necessary step)
Let the Paint Dry Then Remove the Tape and Paper Towels
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Remove the paper towels with the tweezers, the LED's that show the battery capacity where to little to cover with tape or anything, so i just used the tweezers to remove the paint on the LED's
Done :D
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Done, your Macbook is now colored and illuminate :D