so the super dirty shirt yeah there's a
reason for that this is going to be a bit of an unusual video from me today
while we do tackle DIY projects with
reasonable frequency we especially lately haven't been particularly focused
on doing them correctly so today's monitor painting guide will probably
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a short guide it's something I've been working on for a while for our new
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we kicked things off by finding a nice comfortable place to disassemble our LG
3467 AMD free sync capable ultrawide
gaming monitor it's beautiful day for painting monitor I actually did a full
review of it already and you can check that out in the little eye in the top
right corner of the screen I thought this was a great candidate for a paint
JW because while it's 75 HZ variable refresh rate panel has got the
proverbial business in the front the rear of it is a little lacky in the
party in the back Department the first step was disassembling the display you
could paint a monitor by simply masking off the screen and ports and spraying it
but you wouldn't end up with a nice finish and you'd risk damaging it so I
used LG's recycling disassembly guide to
take it apart starting with the screw on the back then by using a plastic pry
tool which I quickly replaced with the metal one even though that actually did
damage the plastic on the bottom a little bit to get the clips released to
pull the backing off next the guide says to remove the speaker so I pulled those
off then I started forging my own path removing the ARM that attaches the
monitor to the stand and the screws around the outside of the edges of the
rear of the inside panel with this done I was able to remove the clips at the
rear bottom and actually extract the panel from the top/bottom slide bezel as
well as that little front fascia piece which was able to pop off just fine
after that point so I put the panel away safely I won't be needing that until
much later next it's time to work on the
plastic so I followed this guide on automotivetouchup.com I know that spray
bombs are not the best way to paint something but I don't have and nor do I
have any interest in acquiring a spray gun for a one-off project and neither do
a lot of people so we're going to try it this way we needed masking tape some
prep solving sandpaper and a scuff pad
tack cloth plastic parts adhesion promoter sandable primer base coat gloss
clear coat and finally rubbing compound
for the finishing touches not actually as expensive as it sounds when I list
all those things so I started by cleaning off the plastic pieces with
soap and water although I suspect this step is more relevant for super dirty
cars then I used prep solvent to ensure it was clean and after that I used the
scuff pad to rough up the plastic bit to help the primer adhere better it really
seems like this step could and probably
should actually be done before washing when you're working on something like a
monitor but honestly it's not that much work after scuffing and sanding in my
case to remove a weird line on the back panel to just wash it down quickly one
more time now before applying any material you're going to want to mask
anything you don't want paint on so just
the control button at the bottom for me and set up a decent workspace obviously
a spray booth with no dust flow and a
mask would be the best way to keep dust out but I don't have one of those so I
made myself a little Al clove undercover
in my garage something that I ended up discovering later that I really needed
to improve the first two coats are adhesion promoter and the rules for
applying this are basically the same as any spray balm 20 cm or so away smooth
overlapping stroke press the nozzle before actually being
pointed at the surface you're trying to paint and release it once you've passed
to avoid drips and don't over apply on a
single coat or you'll get drips from that too then finally always follow the
recoding instructions to ensure you don't bung everything up if it says wait
15 minutes before reapplying just wait
don't touch it just wait
after the adhesion promoter it's time for primer at this stage you can still
make some mistakes I mean obviously you want to do your best but don't worry too
much about it because after three coats of primer you're going to give it
another light sand with 600 grit sandpaper anyway clean off those primed
parts with water and then use one of those sticky tack rags to remove any
dust and lint now you need to step up
your game so our painting location wasn't good enough and we didn't have an
anti-st treatment for our panels which means dust was a real hassle for us over
the next few steps where every stupid little mistake has a chance of showing
up in the finished products we were able to help ourselves out a lot by covering
our work area with a tarp but even then we'd get dust problems with almost every
coat the best advice I can give you now that I'm finished the project though is
no matter how tempted you are don't try
to fix anything while the paint is wet
wait until the coat you're working on dries and you can actually usually get
little bits of dust out with the tack Rag and even if you can't you're better
off having one very small problem than several big ones and I was surprised at
how little of the junk that got stuck in it shows up once you're done with
polishing so it took four coats of our Lamborghini red Diablo whatever that
color is called base coat to reach the desired evenness of color so I had
breakfast and then came back to work on the clear coat after the 30 minute
interval that it asks for this stuff is
sticky and also much easier to screw up
than paint go slow don't touch it and
you'll be fine it took four coats of clear for me to reach the desired
glossiness but your mileage may vary and if you do more coats of clear then
you'll leave yourself more room for polishing the finished product so with
the clear coat done I left our parts out to dry in the shade never let paint
paint dry in the Sun or work in the Sun for 24 hours before returning to finish
the project off so all that's left at this point is take a run at everything
with some 1500 grit sandpaper for removing any serious orange peel and
texture and then rubbing compound to bring out the shine and uh that does
take a little while guys I was at it for a couple of hours and really if i' had
gone for you know another 6 hours I
could have gotten a better result a really shiny result result but
eventually we had to kind of go okay it's time to put this back together and
find out if it even works and it turns out yes it does and boy is she beautiful
well okay I won't finish that I'll let you guys be the judge but I think
considering the reasonable cost of the paint and materials and the fact that
this mod was done in a total of 8 to 10
hours I'm really pleased with my now
totally one-of-a-kind looking gaming monitor I think to take it a step
further I'd really like to stencil maybe
not an LG logo again but maybe like something on the bottom here and I'd
like to stencil something on the back in like matte black plasti dip or something
that would look sick but it's not terribly critical and I'm really liking
the shiny smooth red of the entire
monitor here I consider this project a success and I hope it inspires you guys
to go paint something it doesn't have to be a monitor speaking of things that
don't have to be a monitor ting.com they're the mobile carrier that's
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