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How Exactly Do You Paint Your Drives?

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marks70

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I'd like to purchase one of Antec's newer Performance Plus cases that come in black, but my current drives are the all familiar beige. I've read some comments about the types of paint to use on the drives, but how exactly do you go about painting them? Specifically, how do you paint items such as the volume control on a cd-rom drive, or how do you avoid getting paint on the lights or in the headphone jack?

Sorry for being so lame. Thanks!
 


<< I'd like to purchase one of Antec's newer Performance Plus cases that come in black, but my current drives are the all familiar beige. I've read some comments about the types of paint to use on the drives, but how exactly do you go about painting them? Specifically, how do you paint items such as the volume control on a cd-rom drive, or how do you avoid getting paint on the lights or in the headphone jack?

Sorry for being so lame. Thanks! >>



I just purcahsed the Performance Plus PLUS1080B, and I was wondering this as well. For now, the door hides all of my beige drive faces, but I'd like to do somthing about it.
 
you would need to buy some black vinyl paint from the auto store and you would take off the face place and spray paint it let it dry and stick it back on.
 
Hi. i had to do this about 2 months ago because the lame beige was making my black case look...well lame. it's not that tough. pull off the bezel of your case, or the whole drive out, whatever you need to do to reach about 2 inches into your cd drive. eject the cd drive and take off the bezel on the tray, their are tabs for it. you mus take the tray bezel off first or the main bezel won't budge. on the side/top/bottom of the main bezel there are tabs, they are in different spots on different drives so i can't tell you where they are for sure. then you either push the tab in with a screw driver, or pull the tab out, like i said, different drives have different tabs. then just spray paint them and let them dry, at least 2 coats but 3 is best. if you want to look different then paint the tray bezel a different color than the main bezel. here's how mine turned out: Linkeriffic
 
Thanks for your responses, but you're missing the point of my post a bit. I know how to remove the bezel on the drives, but I'm wondering

<< Specifically, how do you paint items such as the volume control on a cd-rom drive, or how do you avoid getting paint on the lights or in the headphone jack? >>

The lights on my cd-rom drive are part of the bezel, so do you cover them up with microscopic tape or something?
 
Vasoline. Completely cover the LEDs with a dab of vasoline, spray as many coats as necessary, wipe of vasoline.

Of course, if you could remove the LEDs first, you wouldn't risk getting vasoline where you shouldn't and leaving a spot of unpainted bezel showing! 😀
 
Use Vasoline as stated before on the leds. You can also take a fine point artist brush and paint the vasoline over the drives logos to keep any colored text lines if you wish.
 


<< Use Vasoline as stated before on the leds. You can also take a fine point artist brush and paint the vasoline over the drives logos to keep any colored text lines if you wish. >>




Now you tell me 😀
 
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