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Offline brimborion

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Can you buy and apply coatings to key caps?
« on: Wed, 25 February 2015, 15:36:28 »
I noticed I like whatever coating is on my Type Heaven's ABS keys, and also whatever coating is on my KBP v60 MTS. If I found a texture I liked, would it be possible to spray it on any other ABS caps that are starting to shine or that I just find too smooth? I don't really care if they are opaque and cover the legends, though if they are clear, even better. I hear stuff like "UV coated" and wonder if I can just buy a can of it and squirt it all over my Rosewill or something.
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Re: Can you buy and apply coatings to key caps?
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 25 February 2015, 18:59:05 »
not that i know of

and it'd probably peel off and look gross anyway
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Re: Can you buy and apply coatings to key caps?
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 15 March 2015, 12:01:40 »
The process involves an UV tunnel.

Plastidip is something that has been used on keycaps before.
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Re: Can you buy and apply coatings to key caps?
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 16 March 2015, 07:14:46 »
Any film applied to a surface has the potential to peel back off.

If that happened consistently, it might be OK, but since it will be random and spoltchy, it is sure to look bad.
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