Plastidipped Siig Minitouch

[baloo25]

This is a project I have been working on for a few weeks now. Originally this was a siig minitouch with Hua alps clones. I desoldered the clones, and installed lubed, paper modded and I rebent the tactile leaves for increased tactility. I also installed Soarer's converter and modded the fn key to make it remappable.

http://imgur.com/a/jhZYd

http://imgur.com/a/LPuVh
Monday the Anthracite grey plastidip arrived and I laid three coats of paint on the top and bottom of the case. Originally, I didn't like the feeling of the material but loved the color. I also wanted to protect the paint job from peeling over time. I found that spray clear coats contain acetone or other distillates that would ruin the plastidip. I settled on using spray on car wax. it provided a great layer of peel/scratch resistance as well as smoothing the texture on the case. I liked it so much I tried it on the yellowing abs space bar. A single coat and a few coats of wax later and I can comfortably say this is my new favorite board! 

[Daniel Beardsmore]

My K110 that I gave to chzel was inconsistently yellowed and looked pants — that was a good candidate for this treatment. I don't know what happened to that keyboard in the end.

The second link doesn't work — I was curious to see how well the LED legends have survived the plastidip.

[baloo25]

Thanks for pointing that out! I've fixed the links now.

Ah the legends for the LEDs actually came out great. It was one of my bigger worries with the plastidip, but the dip didn't smudge them a bit.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

 The fine detailing at the top of the case seems to have survived, but I was concerned the plastic might turn the LED legends blobby. I see the MiniTouch badge reappeared too.

[baloo25]

Yeah the badge was something I wanted to put back on but didn't know how glue would adhere to the plastidip.