Painting A Strawberry iMac On The Inside?

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Painting A Strawberry iMac On The Inside?

I have a Strawberry iMac (266MHz tray-load) that I salvaged which had a dead flyback transformer. Just the other night I swapped out the dead FB with a new one and it lives (W00T!) Last night as I was preparing to put everything together again the thought occurred to me that the strawberry color -- or rather pink -- isn't the most attractive (read; butt-ugly), and with the translucent plastic it'd be possible to paint the inside of the case to change the hue of the outside.

I was thinking that black would work well and change the pink to a black-cherry color. I know I'm not the first to come up with this idea, so has anyone else blazed this trail and have thoughts on what color paint gives the best results when applied on the inside of these beasts? I dug around on AppleFritter but didn't come up with any advice or pictures, so if anyone knows of any AF entries on the subject, please chime in.

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Re: Painting A Strawberry iMac On The Inside?

I would think that you'll need to make sure what ever type of paint you use that it will have a heat resistant quality to it ..Good Luck!

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Update...

Not much activity on this one thus far (maybe I'm being impatient) and I haven't found any info elsewhere on the net, so I'm blasting forward anyway. I picked up some light blue Rustoleum Paint For Plastic today and plan to apply a coat tonight or tomorrow (much too windy outside today.) I'm very familiar with process printing and am thinking that combining the two colors -- the light blue on the inside of the translucent pink (magenta?) shell -- will result in a deep blue.

We'll see.

I'll be sure to post photos later, in case anyone is interested. And maybe for posterity's sake as well, in case anyone later on has the same thought.

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Paint and the innards of your machine...

I hope you made sure that the Rust-Oleum was High temp rated. Sorry I didn't see your post before, but what you needed was an automotive rated finish... it is sold in individual spray cans (for like $25/can...) or you can find a sympathetic Earl Sheib or similar car paint shop, pay them a couple of bucks and they can paint it for you and bake the finish on with the big curing lights. I've used car paint places for obscure projects like this many times... getting vertical filing cabinets to work with just the right color scheme, playing a practical joke on a friend's wife and painting her washer/dryer set navy blue (he had just gotten appointed to the Flying Angles- it was appropriate) and so on. I can ususally get them to do a project like this for less than $10, and the laughs of listening to my explanation.

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