BLACK and BLUE!(No not
Bed &
Breakfast.)
B&B!After the recent spate of B&W G3s that I’ve been working on here AND all of the scuffs, scratches, cracks and gouges that some of them have had in side panels (and damaged handles and feets)… thought I’d try a little different approach. This is
THE LAST ONE!Lightly sandblasted the side covers (and the handles and feet) with a fine, coal slag blast media. First tests on the side panels looked promising as it removed the scratches and scuffs - while also retaining the translucent look and the ability to still view the big G3 text appliqués underneath, on the metal casing. I don’t have any pics of this result - as I decided on this
different approach.
*I still have some side panels to sandblast so I may post them later. (I know, Oh Boy!) Sandblasting the MDD & Quicksilver clear-finished handles and feet did work out very well for matching the original milky-white matte-look of the B&W handles and feet. Again, more pics to follow.
One more post?
But now, the Black & Blue!(Kinda how I feel after all these B&Ws.)
You too?
*Images are clickable, for larger views.
Just noticed that reflection of a keyboard on the front panel.
That’s KRYLON Fusion, rattle-can black spray paint… Hammered Black on the side panels and Satin Black on the handles and feet. Toyed with the idea of all Satin Black, but then again, considered the side panels being scratched and scuffed easily. With the Hammered Black it might be easier to just use a Black Sharpie for touch-ups as needed, as time goes by?
Haven’t buffed out or wiped the side panels yet, so their surface still looks a little uneven. Also considered Satin Black for the Apple logo insets… but more masking / and I’m lazy. Might add some small, stick-on, G3 text to the Apple logo insets later?
Top view.
Hammered Black, also on the top cover. Argued with myself about painting this anyway… as so often, drinks and other things are often placed on the top. (Certainly not for smooth Satin Black.) Think it needed to also be black?
*All painted parts spent about four days curing over heater vents.
Before I put my grubby hands all over them.
Left side, front.
How long do you wait to pull masking from things like the Apple logo inset?
*There’s one idea for the added text on the side cover Apple logo, above.
Left, rear view.
Right side, rear view.
And finally… OPEN.
Where you can see the bare minimum, internal configuration.
That’s an Inland 128 GB SSD.
AND a larger, taller heatsink - that I’ve never seen before.
350 MHz CPU clocked up to 400 MHz.
A 2005 Sony DVD/CD rewritable drive.
And an Iomega 750MB Zip drive.
Mis-matched PC100 & PC133 RAM, totaling nearly 1GB!
That’s a Rev.2 board that did not work at first. (I hadn’t even tested this with a Rev.1 before the case mod.) Real smart.
I swapped RAM, changed CPUs, changed video cards, reset PMU and finally reinstalled the Rev.1 and it then booted.
(Tried all sorts of jumper block configs too.) Then I put the Rev.2 board back in… and Viola! It finally BOOTED.
THE LAST B&W B&B G3!Was joking with mopar300m about applying that stick-on camouflage vinyl sheeting (like the black carbon fiber I used on a Lectrosonics Mouse guitar amp) on a Quicksilver… and while that
might be interesting - no more case mods for me. At least for awhile anyway. Too many other projects got bumped for this one.
This one was
that much fun?
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