Painting the Shell

[Inate00]

So the front shell of my 800 is kind of scratched up. I was thinking of painting it, but the holes for the speakers and such kind of present a problem.

I have some really nice metallic blue paint that would look awesome, but I don't know how to go about tackling the holes. Some are so small they will definitely get clogged.

Possibly, I could plug them with needles and toothpicks from the underside, and pull them down after the whole thing has dried.

It would be tricky. Just thinking out loud.

[Red]

Powder-coating it would be the way forward here. There was a thread here a while back. I'll search for it.

[Inate00]

Powder-coating it would be the way forward here. There was a thread here a while back. I'll search for it.

So the shell would have to be completely metal then. Is it?

[Karel Jansens]

And there's me thinking it was about bash...

[Red]

http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10979&highlight=powder

There you go!

[Red]

So the shell would have to be completely metal then. Is it?

http://itotd.com/articles/300/powder-coating/


Alternatively if you want a new one: http://www.mytrendyphone.com/shop/original-nokia-n800-6668p.html

[Inate00]

Thanks, It doesn't look like that company ships to the US, though. I'm still trying to figure it out.

[Red]

If you are in the US you have even more options. There are powder-coating companies who will probably do the job for you for under 10 bucks.