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Hello! I'm going to sell my GPU since I'm not using it for anything. What would be the best material to wrap a gpu into? I got the GPU from my friend and he only had the GPU and it's box left, no anti-static bag or foam. I read that news paper and some cardboard should be ok, but I want to make it sure. Oh, and I'm not going to ship the GPU (it will not leave the country). Someone will pick it up or I will send it to someone. The GPU is MSI R7 370 Thank you!

I have an MSI Ghost Pro 4k laptop (here) and I want to put a carbon fiber vinyl skin on it, but I was wondering if, while using a heat gun (hair dryer), the heat could cause any issues. Thanks! Moosecoop

Hi there. This is my first vinyl wrap of a keyboard. Since there are no tutorials for this specific Keyboard I thought I give it a try. My target was to wrap the silver-ish accent into carbon fiber vinyl. So to start things of. The first step is to take the Keyboard apart. Tip: Make a photo before you start so that you know which key belongs where in the end To dissasamble the keyboard you need to unscrew the screw on the back and lift of all keycaps. Than you can take the backblade of the keycaps of. With that done you can unscrew some more screws on the back of the silver-ish part. Beware, there are screws hidden under the isolating tape there are two more screws. After that done you can begin to wrap the silver-ish part. In the end my result looked like this. My pictures are everything but good so sorry for that. Its just a smartphonecam Do you need any further help? Just ask

the look of the H440 has grown out on me, There isnt really a case out there that i like. So im just gonna mod my H440, There are just a few things im unsure of 1. What size of wrap do i need? This is the color i want to use http://www.metrorestyling.com/Avery-Dennison-Conform-Chrome-Vinyl-Film-p/cwsf100196s-s.htm 2. Any H440 Tempered Glass tutorials anywhere? 3. Is there a cable where i can convert 1 USB 3.0 Motherboard Socket into 2 USB 3.0 Motherboard Sockets

So, I was looking up some keyboard facts and noticed that I really haven't cleaned my keyboard before and decided to have a go at doing it. At the same time, I thought about wrapping it. Before I start, I have NEVER vinyl wrapped anything before and read that it's really difficult to perform on the blackwidow. So I wasn't really confident about it. Tools used: • Craft Knife ( £1.49 from a local DIY store) • Craft Mat (pretty cheap I think) • Steel Ruler (Around £2ish from the same DIY store) • 3D Carbon Fiber https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B015MYHD1C/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1505555863&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=silver+carbon+vinyl+wrap&dpPl=1&dpID=51mXlk2LPsL&ref=plSrch • Random Loyalty card not used. • Standard size screwdriver heads. • Cotton buds (Cheap from your supermarket) • hair dryer, heat gun. What I did: Tips/advice: If you want to do this, go for it! Just be patient and take your time. When taking off the shell, put light force away from the keyboard to unclip the shell from the keyboard. I did crack the shell in 3 places but the vinyl made it stronger. Take your time when using the heat source, and don't stretch it too much. Usually I used 5 seconds of quick sweeping across the area you want to bend around. Cut space around parts that clip into the base of the keyboard to make sure it pops back into place when finished. So yeah, my first ever wrap, went alright and my keyboard feels like it's brand new and feels good with a different colour. Any suggestions then give me a reply.

Anybody know of any companies or ways to get a custom vinyl wrap made for a case? I want to do some detailed images, and I figured some like a custom vinyl print would work. Even if I have to enter custom detentions to a car wrap site or something.

I have an old custom made table for my rig. It was quiet good as is but the wooden surface is deteriorating with many scratches. Any good and cheap material to wrap your table to cover it? I am thinking of getting a vinyl wrap but I don't really know any other good alternatives.

Vinyl-wrapping my white NZXT H440 I haven´t really found anything about vinyl wrapping on this forum. So I thought I´d post this, maybe it helps some of you or gives inspiration. I just wrote this stuff down out of my mind, sorry if it´s in a weird order. So last week i collected some ideas out of my mind to execute on the weekend. One of which was to vinyl-wrap my pc case. 1 year ago i built a custom pc along with the NZXT H440 to showcase my interior. Though, i got bored of the looks. I have watched a lot of car-wrapping videos and stuff recently so i thought it would be awesome to do this with a PC case. Luckily, the H440 is a fairly simple case with plain, clean panels. So i went ahead and searched around on amazon for vinyl-wraps. Material choice: I didn´t want to spend too much money on something that i may fail at/i dont like, so i didnt choose some high-quality stuff like the popular 3M DI-NOC. I went for a relatively cheap black-carbon wrap with good reviews. After 2 days the (tall) package arrived and in addition to that i had picked up a scalpel for doing precise cuts (5 bucks). The materal is pretty thin, but cool looking. The surface is riffled, but there are no actual "fibres", which is expected at this price. It has some smell to it, though, the smell faded after few hours So overall this wrap seems pretty okay! First steps/practice: To be able to work properly, some equipment is needed. So i grabbed a - hairdryer - scalpel - ruler (not mandatory) - squegee (with soft material) - damp cleaning cloth I´ve never worked with vinyl wrap before so it´s a good idea to practice first, before messing up a whole lot of wrap. So i grabed a Zowie FK1 and tried to wrap it. I cut a piece of the size of the mouse + some extra material for curves and stuff. You dont want to have like 0.5 cm of missing material. And thats even worse on the big side panels of the H440. Bigger is better in this case. I worked along the mouse1 & mouse2 buttons until i reached the large curverture at the end. This was by far the most difficult part (maybe a mouse is not the best example to begin with in the first place) and i had to head up and stretch the material quite a bit. The streching and heating caused the pattern to strain, so be careful not to heat up the material too much. Eventually it kinda worked out so i took the knife and cut, beginning at the mouse1 & 2 buttons again. The lines of the body were easy to see so i just squeezed the knife inbetween the gap and cut along the line. But it became more and more difficult as i moved on to the curve of the mouse, ending up missing the gap and cutting at the wrong place (i´m a terribly impatient person) (which doesn´t really matter, because the matt coating of the mouse came off already anyways). So I removed the wrap completely. I looked around for a new volunteer for my devilish experiments. My eyes aimed straight at the Nexus 5 chillin´around there. So i removed the back with a guitarpick-like tool, cleaned the back and began applying the wrap. With the scalpel, i was able to remove the unnecessary protruding material easily. The most difficult part was the camera/flash cutout, i´d say. Things i have noticed: - Don´t overhead the material, it gets pretty soft - You get cleaner edges, when you stretch the material all the way around to the other side - DONT use your fingernail to squeeze out airbubbles or anything else, it will damage the wrap Wrapping the H440: My PC stands with the right sidepanel towards the wall, so minor flaws wont be that apparent when doing it the first time with the right sidepanel. I removed it, cleaned it and then cut a piece of the size of the panel + again, extra material (about 3 cm on each side). I removed the Paperlayer and placed the wrap on the table, with the sticky side facing up (which was a major mistake!). Following i placed the panel onto the wrap carefully...aaand there were wrinkles all over the place. Luckily I was able to remove the wrap without any damage. So I tried it the other way around. I partially applyed the wrap and removed the airbubbles with the squegee right away. Otherwise you would have to reapply the skin or make a little whole with a needle later on for the air to escape. Now, i had to make the edges right. I removed the extra material, until there was around 0.5 - 1 cm of extra material on each side left. Then, i used the hairdryer to bend the material around the edges to the other side. As i worked my way around, i always paid attention to straighten the wrap out propberly (not too strong). On the panel, the handle was defenitely the most callanging part. It is curved and edgy, having to heat up the materal lots of times and straighten out the material using the squeegee. Though, the wrap didn´t completely stick to the edge (see pic). But, it was done. the first panel and the look was pretty cool tbh. The next three panels were the more difficult parts. The left sidepanel having the acryl-window and the other to having 90° curves as well as front I/O. I also had to separate the plsatic part from the top and front panel to be able to wrap around the edges properly. Here are some problems i faced: - small wholes for the front I/O - Round corners/curves Solutions/Tips: - For small wholes, cut alot of slices in the material and squeeze a pencil or something similar through the whole. Then you can bend the slices around and stick it to the back. - Again, slice the wrap to about ~0.2 cm away from the material and then stretch it around the corner/curve. PICS: (i hope this spiler thingy works. Blame my Note 2 for potato-pics :c) Conclusion: Summing up, it was surprisingly easy to do, but with a timestamp of ~8h it´s a bit timeconsuming. Take your time! I did breaks, when i noticed that i was getting impatient. The result mostly satisfies me (well, the NZXT. lettering is not TAHT clean) and i´m planning to buy white wrap to skin the interior (SSD, ...), so i can call that build Oreo. However, thanks for reading this long, happy-ending story and feel free to ask me any question as well as pointing out any grammatical flaws (not a native speaker ._.). tl;dr: It´s cool. Update: I got myself some white wrap and just finished wrapping some parts. I´ll post some additional pics, when i´m finished painting my GPU.

so this is just an idea but i was wondering how to wrap fan grills because i want to create a fake stainless steel look and seems like the best way to do that would be a wrap. if you have any other ideas on how to create a fake stainless steel look those would be appreciated as well. thanks maybach123

Hi all, Just wanted to ask how I should wrap a old film lens to give as a gift, my plan right now is to wrap it in bubble wrap, put it in a cardbox with a silica gel packet and then wrap it with wrapping paper, but I had a few things that came to my mind, is it safe for the lens? Would any issue arise, like fungus or haze?

Hey guys. I'm probably going to get a 328i in a few years. I was thinking to get black wheels, a carbon fiber wrap, and tinted windows. I'll add in a custom exhaust after a little while. How much of a fuckhead would I look like if I do this? My sister has tinted windows and black wheels on her 335i. Is the carbon fiber over the top? Thanks.

Hey LTT Community!! my first post... So ive always wanted a custom keyboard, however im on a tight budget and stuck with my 2012 Razer Black Widow Ultimate... I'm 110% over the disgusting glossy finish, and the noisy blue switches, ive currently got led colour changes (little plastic caps that clip over the leds) and they're dull and boring. SO, let the fun begin... Ive ordered the following: 88 (one spare) Cherry MX Brown key switches (mechkb.com) 100 (was cheaper) Super Bright White 3mm LED's (ledsales.com.au) 1.5x1.2m Black Carbon Vinyl Wrap (ebay.com.au) and a solder pump as i didn't have one! I'll also be getting some new keycaps eventually, i love the look of keycools gradient caps but im not 100% on the white, thinking they'll just get filthy and stained <_< will post some pics when the goodies start arriving and the modding begins!

Hi, Some dill hole that goes by the name of "beats audio" took a chunk of plastic out of my HP laptop. My first question is how can I fill in this hole. I have filled in dents in cars with body filler before but it literally takes a long period of time. I am not sure if it works on plastics either. extras + "small" review the HP laptop I want to either throw a vinyl wrap on it or paint the laptop, I am leaning toward the vinyl wrap because, from my understanding, I don't have to disassemble the laptop completely. I have never painted an object that I have to touch allot, so I do not know how well that works. My laptop is (exterior) 100% plastic, there is no metal accents. What method usually yields the best results? I was looking at this stuff at canadian tire the other day. Has anybody tried using this stuff? If its crap, I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, where is the best place to get the 3M wrap?

I am making a website, and have some code tags. However, the code does not seem to work with the css overflow: scroll or overflow: auto As you can see in the image, the style is detected by the browser (Firefox running firebug in the screenshot but also on chrome), but not enabled. How can I make it allow scrolling code like it does in most places, including this forum?

Hey guys, I got one of those artscow $1 mousepads a while back since I never had an actual mousepad. Now, the problem is that I feel like it's a bit too small for me. The thought of a larger mousepad occurred to me, but I don't want to shell out for that right now and I don't really like how they would look on my desk. My solution to it would be wrapping they keyboard tray in felt or some cloth material similar to a mousepad to get a nice look and a large surface for my mouse. Do you guys think this idea would work or are there possible problems with this? Voice your opinions.

I want to vinyl wrap my pc but it has a number of ventilation holes. I was wondering wether it could be done, wrapping over these holes.