Only ever seen them in black or grey.
Tho it should be trivial to paint one to match whatever hue of beige you want =)

I have ordered "white" and received both gray and light beige units. When dealing with the chinese sellers, you never know what you're going to get. So yes, both gray and light beige do exist. I have yet to receive an actual stark white one yet.

Beige is what I'm after. If anyone knows of a reliable beige source, please let me know. I definitely won't be installing a grey unit into any beige computer.

I'm guessing grey has been popular due to their use in industrial applications and embedded devices.

Mine are both grey. Only hook them up when needed for an install, do not have them in a permanent system.

You'd think that black would be just as suitable in an industrial setting. Unfortunately, I don't think painting these won't hold all that well. I guess I'll just use it on a test bed.

Nah, black is more for those old disk based MIDI sequencers. Grey is good for industrial because it hides dust better.

I had exactly the same problem, ordered white from a couple of different places but always turned up grey. As mentioned they're pretty easy to paint but that's no fun.

Recently ordered a beige one and actually received beige. Was slightly surprised as last time I ordered beige I received black 😉

Spray paint is your friend.

I have a few metal case covers that I need to paint as well. Anyone have a North American rattle can recommendation for 2-tone speckled beige (metal case) and 1-tone beige (Gotek)?

meljor wrote:

Mine are both grey. Only hook them up when needed for an install, do not have them in a permanent system.

Why not have it in a permanent system?

Because I am fussy about colour matching bezels to within some threshold. Refer to the above photo for my threshold. That's just me. Maybe its OK for you.

feipoa wrote:

Because I am fussy about colour matching bezels to within some threshold. Refer to the above photo for my threshold. That's just me. Maybe its OK for you.

I am too, it's a curse. Something that I thought about when I was trying to get my Gotek looking presentable was sticking it inside a 5 1/4 drive bay contraption of some sort - something you'd use for a HDD or even one of those simple drawers you see on eBay sometimes. Even if the colour of the Gotek matches perfectly they still don't look period correct.

Anyway, in the end though I just got an external facing IDE->CF adapter working and use that for transferring files.

feipoa wrote:

I have a few metal case covers that I need to paint as well. Anyone have a North American rattle can recommendation for 2-tone speckled beige (metal case) and 1-tone beige (Gotek)?

Nobody (other than Bill Gates when he got his first AMC Pacer 🤣) would drive a car painted PC beige.

If you want the speckled look, it's down to the surface, not the colour - spray some auto high build primer into a cup, and then use a toothpick, or a pop rivet to dab spots of primer on the case to create the raised speckled effect on the case.
Then spray a top coat with whatever colour you want.

As far as colour is concerned, you either need the Pantone or RAL number, or the easiest approach - take the metal case (or the Gotek itself!) to a paintshop and ask them to make up a rattlecan to match.
Don't ask me how much it would cost, never done it myself on this side of the pond, I'm not that much of a perfectionist.

/md

I know there are 2-tone single can rattle cans - I have bought some in silver to spray my dumb bells with. I was hoping for something simple like this in beige.

I guess this is as good a place to ask as any. What is the closest RAL color code to a computer case beige? This thread got under my skin, I must now buy a spray can and paint my gotek to a more appropriate color. I may even do the OLED mod while I'm at it..

Windows9566 wrote:

meljor wrote:

Mine are both grey. Only hook them up when needed for an install, do not have them in a permanent system.

Why not have it in a permanent system?

Because I like them and use them a lot but have only 2 Goteks and much more systems.. 🤣 Also for testing boards and stuff it is just easy to grab a Gotek instead of booting from a floppy and hoping it still works.... (had a lot of old boot floppies die on me).

But maybe try building a Gotek into an old cdrom drive? Just using a front of a player with a door that has those springs, which gets kicked down by the actual cd drawer. Easy acces but you can't see it if you don't want to 😎
Or much cooler: extend a front usb port to the Gotek usb port (living somewhere in the case out of sight) and use a case led display and extend that too..and the buttons.

feipoa wrote:

Because I am fussy about colour matching bezels to within some threshold. Refer to the above photo for my threshold. That's just me. Maybe its OK for you.

Look for Rustoleum "Shell White." That's about the damned closest I could get to that "vintage" generic case beige.

https://www.rustoleum.com/product-catalog/con … c=Shell%20White