Painting components

[mao91]

I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. My components are getting a bit older so I know I'm not going to sell them, which means I'd like to try painting a few things. Is there any particular kind of paint I should be looking at, or would a basic krylon multi-surface bonding paint work fine?

 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

You could use Plastidip.

 

[jaslion]

6 minutes ago, B.Toast said:

I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. My components are getting a bit older so I know I'm not going to sell them, which means I'd like to try painting a few things. Is there any particular kind of paint I should be looking at, or would a basic krylon multi-surface bonding paint work fine?

 

Your current system is like super easily sold fyi. Otherwise plastidip is sorta your friend.

[mao91]

8 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

You could use Plastidip.

 

no.

[Oshino Shinobu]

I used Krylon to paint RAM, the shroud of a GPU and a few other things a while back with no issues. 

[mao91]

4 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

I used Krylon to paint RAM, the shroud of a GPU and a few other things a while back with no issues. 

Great! I've regularly used it to paint PCIe covers (the ones on the back of the case) so I figured it should be okay but, well, those are just inconsequential metal pieces. I wasn't sure about something like GPU shrouds, chipset covers, vrm heatsinks, etc.

[mao91]

Update: I’m doing the thing 

 

[startrek03]

On 10/16/2020 at 10:51 PM, B.Toast said:

Great! I've regularly used it to paint PCIe covers (the ones on the back of the case) so I figured it should be okay but, well, those are just inconsequential metal pieces. I wasn't sure about something like GPU shrouds, chipset covers, vrm heatsinks, etc.

Heatsinks shouldn't be painted for thermal reasons.They'll probably still work to some extend, but definitely not as good as if they were unpainted.