First post, by Deksor
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- l33t
As some of you may have seen, I've bought a huge 486 tower. Sadly the motherboard is probably unrepairable due to a leaky battery (the acid went all over from the top to the bottom of the motherboard) but I should have one or two working motherboard (and better ones). Anyway, it's not the subject of that topic. The subject is about the case which as I said is very big and I really like the look of that case, but sadly it should need a bit of work to really shine again.
Here is how it looks like :
The front door is a bit yellowed while the rest seems to be normal
Yes I've removed everything that could have been inside except for the 3.5" floppy drive and the PSU
The left side. As you can see there are some scratches with rust in them
The right side. Like the left one but worse (the top is also damaged like that)
The back of the case. A bit rusty here and there (the bottom inside the case is way worse, but since these sides aren't painted, this shouldn't be too hard to remove it
So as you can see, it's a nice looking case, but I don't like it to have so munch scratches in the painted area and being a bit yellowed. I think that I should paint the metal part, but what kind of paint should I use ? and how should I remove the rust ?
For the yellowed plastic, I don't really know ... I know retrobright, but I also know that yellow comes back after a few years and if it's done too many times, the plastic start to become really really fragile so I don't really want that to happen. I could paint it too (the door itself has no writings at all), but I think that there will be a color difference between the door and the rest of the plastic part and I don't really want that to happen too. And also I can feel when I touch a painted case that it doesn't feel like plastic anymore ...
Thank in advance 😀
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