Painting my laptop

[Spork829]

My 5 year old laptop that I still use with some upgrades (specs in sig) has always been an enormous fingerprint magnet. The entire body is a glossy dark blue plastic that does not do well with hand oils. I have very oily skin, so after I use it for about 3 seconds the entire thing looks really gross, not to mention becoming uncomfortable to use. So I was thinking I want to paint the whole thing, possibly with Plasti-Dip, simply because it's going to be quite a project and I'd like to be able to peel it off if something goes terribly wrong. However I've never worked with it before so my question is once it's painted will that give it the matte, less fingerprint prone effect that I'm looking for? I honestly have no idea what I'm doing here so does anyone have any recommendations?

[iamdarkyoshi]

It'll peel off easily, and regular spraypaint is like always sticky. Search "Carbon Fiber Vinyl Wrap" on ebay. Cover it with that. My inspiron looks sick!

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

It'll peel off easily, and regular spraypaint is like always sticky. Search "Carbon Fiber Vinyl Wrap" on ebay. Cover it with that. My inspiron looks sick!

Hmm I didn't think about a vinyl wrap, that could be a thing

[iamdarkyoshi]

Just now, Spork829 said:

Hmm I didn't think about a vinyl wrap, that could be a thing

It'll be cheaper than paint lol

[iamdarkyoshi]

Just a warning, the cheap stuff doesn't stick super well. If it starts to peel, just put a drop of stupid glue under the peeling edge and hold it in place for a bit. Cleaning it with rubbing alcohol first helps a lot

[kaiju_wars]

4 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

It'll be cheaper than paint lol

also easier than tearing the laptop down to paint the outer shell.

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Just a warning, the cheap stuff doesn't stick super well. If it starts to peel, just put a drop of stupid glue under the peeling edge and hold it in place for a bit. Cleaning it with rubbing alcohol first helps a lot

You mean cleaning the sticky part with rubbing alcohol? Sounds counter-intuitive...

[iamdarkyoshi]

Just now, Spork829 said:

You mean cleaning the sticky part with rubbing alcohol? Sounds counter-intuitive...

No the laptop lol

[Spork829]

Just now, kaiju_wars said:

also easier than tearing the laptop down to paint the outer shell.

Lol I've torn the thing down so many times for maintenence and upgrades over the years I can do that in my sleep

[Spork829]

Just now, iamdarkyoshi said:

No the laptop lol

......im tired

[kaiju_wars]

Just now, Spork829 said:

Lol I've torn the thing down so many times for maintenence and upgrades over the years I can do that in my sleep

Same for me, but it's still easier to wrap it than a teardown.

[iamdarkyoshi]

6 minutes ago, kaiju_wars said:

Same for me, but it's still easier to wrap it than a teardown.

lol took me 5 minutes to get my old K53SV apart