Registered: Mar 2000
Location: Garland, TX, USA
Posts: 108

Has anyone seen this place? Most of it is in Japanese, but there's some cool mods here...

http://www.fureai.or.jp/~mori-t/

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Rob Lund
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Registered: Feb 2000
Location: Moved to Clie Land
Posts: 331

ALLRIGHT! My purple VISOR....just needs to be MORE purple

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location:
Posts: 16

Purple VIsor

Thats about as good as you can get with the plastic. Most plastic has the dye added while the plastic is still liquid. I did a bit of research while trying to figure out a better way than RIT dye, and most of the really nifty ideas require toxic chemicals and a really nice lab. If anyone else has any good knowledge of how to dye plastic, I would be very interested.

TigerPaws - owner of the Purple Visor Deluxe

Registered: Jul 2000
Location: USA
Posts: 75

Would paint work ? Or are you trying to preserve the transparency of the case ?

Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Rochester, NY
Posts: 284

There used to be transparent paints available for painting glass. They worked well, and produced deep colors. I toyed with these a really long time ago, but you may still be able to find them in hobby stores.

Registered: Aug 2000
Location:
Posts: 16

Transparent Paints

A local hobby store also mentioned this. I wanted to use dye, since dye doesn't flake off or change the tolerances of finely machined plastic...

I would suspect that you could paint the inside of the visor case with transparent paint, but I don't know how
well it would turn out.

The other thought I have had is vacuforming cover plates to fit over the case. Similar to the Nokia snap on covers. I would love to get a really nice wood look, or perhaps chrome. Will post pics if I manage to get it to work.

Tigerpaws