Bare Titanium, anyone seen it?
So I'm thinking of sanding down my PowerBook, I've tested out my method of finishing the metal, and I have acheived a satisfactory tactic that doesn't give it that "brushed" or "swirled" look. I haven't seen any decent pictures of this already done to a TiBook.
Check out this link http://www.applefritter.com/node/3039
Note the crappy job on the back of the lcd. I've got a few flat pry tools that can get the PowerBook's back covering off without bending the edge of it beyond repair. The plastic piece that makes up the Apple logo on the back actually comes out, so instead of sanding around it, I can sand directly over it, evenly. I'm going to mod the logo with the classic logo colored striping. I did this once before on an iBook and it came out perfect.
Check it: http://homepage.mac.com/theprepmaster/PhotoAlbum1.html
Can anyone report in with some pictures of bare TiBooks? I'm torn between keeping the edge of the bezel light silver, or bringing it down to black. I also need to know if the top of the palmrest is also bare titanium underneath paint...OK, go!
Check out this link http://www.applefritter.com/node/3039
Note the crappy job on the back of the lcd. I've got a few flat pry tools that can get the PowerBook's back covering off without bending the edge of it beyond repair. The plastic piece that makes up the Apple logo on the back actually comes out, so instead of sanding around it, I can sand directly over it, evenly. I'm going to mod the logo with the classic logo colored striping. I did this once before on an iBook and it came out perfect.
Check it: http://homepage.mac.com/theprepmaster/PhotoAlbum1.html
Can anyone report in with some pictures of bare TiBooks? I'm torn between keeping the edge of the bezel light silver, or bringing it down to black. I also need to know if the top of the palmrest is also bare titanium underneath paint...OK, go!
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Anyway, I have a Ti and I'm not really interested in doing it. I think the results from the applefritter article are pretty bad. I'd be very hesitant to go through with such an operation unless I were pretty sure that it wouldn't look like crap.
Also, incidentally, there are spots where my pink iPod mini (Feb 04) are no longer pink. Supposedly this is "anodized." I'm pretty sure anodizing is just tossing paint particles into a thin oxidation layer. I would be crious to find if the TiBook is anodized or simply painted. Either way you should be able to sand it off.
Which is indeed a gift.
Originally posted by Splinemodel
Incidentally, neither of my TiBooks have had any sort of "paint chipping," one of them being a 500MHz rev A from Feb 2001. (the other a 1GHz from Dec 02). I always thought that the paint chipping spoken of was on the plastic trim.
Also, incidentally, there are spots where my pink iPod mini (Feb 04) are no longer pink. Supposedly this is "anodized." I'm pretty sure anodizing is just tossing paint particles into a thin oxidation layer. I would be crious to find if the TiBook is anodized or simply painted. Either way you should be able to sand it off.
The chipping paint problem was with 667Mhz and 867Mhz models. Both the one s you own are good.
Originally posted by Electric Monk
Command Z is undo.
Which is indeed a gift.
Along with Revert To Saved.
Oh well.