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System Name | Black Panther |
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Processor | i9 9900k |
Motherboard | Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO Wifi 1.0 |
Cooling | NZXT Kraken X72 360mm |
Memory | 2 x 8GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 3600Mhz |
Video Card(s) | Palit RTX2080 Ti Dual 11GB DDR6 |
Storage | Samsung EVO 970 500GB SSD M.2 & 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm |
Display(s) | 32'' Gigabyte G32QC 2560x1440 165Hz |
Case | NZXT H710i Black |
Audio Device(s) | Razer Electra V2 & Z5500 Speakers |
Power Supply | Seasonic Focus GX-850 Gold 80+ |
Mouse | Some Corsair lost the box forgot the model |
Keyboard | Motospeed |
Software | Windows 10 |
I was planning to do this for a very long time.
The palm-rest of my keyboard had become discolored and hideous thanks to my sweaty palms while gaming, so I decided to paint it a shade of metallic blue.
Here are the 'before' photos:
And the finished work:
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While I was doing it, I remembered of one of the very old beige keyboards I had stored and unused for years, and thought... why not use the extra paint on something else?
I used the same paint I used for the other keyboard.
(Brace yourselves for the 'before' photos, lol)
The "before" photos:
This time I disassembled the entire keyboard to pieces, unlike the other one.
I unscrewed keyboard from the bottom, took the top half and bottom half apart.
I removed wire and the tiny pcb. I got the flimsy transparent plastic printed circuits out as well, and to remove dirt I gave them a blow with a hair-dryer on low heat.
From the top half I popped out all the keys.
Before doing so I took the photo... otherwise heaven knows how I'd get the keys all in the right places again!
From the bottom half I removed the flexible rubber which goes under all the keys and enables them to pop up, I washed that in water and detergent. It had residues looking like someone split coffee on it. I'm not sure how it got in there, but I'm thinking this was one of the keyboards we had at our work when the roof used to leak rain-water, it didn't work when drenched and we bought some other €5 keyboard to keep going. This is further confirmed by the dirt marks (they got worse during storage) - but look, no greasy marks on WSAD so it definitely was one of my work keyboards
The "after" photos:
The palm-rest of my keyboard had become discolored and hideous thanks to my sweaty palms while gaming, so I decided to paint it a shade of metallic blue.
Here are the 'before' photos:
And the finished work:
_________________________________________
While I was doing it, I remembered of one of the very old beige keyboards I had stored and unused for years, and thought... why not use the extra paint on something else?
I used the same paint I used for the other keyboard.
(Brace yourselves for the 'before' photos, lol)
The "before" photos:
This time I disassembled the entire keyboard to pieces, unlike the other one.
I unscrewed keyboard from the bottom, took the top half and bottom half apart.
I removed wire and the tiny pcb. I got the flimsy transparent plastic printed circuits out as well, and to remove dirt I gave them a blow with a hair-dryer on low heat.
From the top half I popped out all the keys.
Before doing so I took the photo... otherwise heaven knows how I'd get the keys all in the right places again!
From the bottom half I removed the flexible rubber which goes under all the keys and enables them to pop up, I washed that in water and detergent. It had residues looking like someone split coffee on it. I'm not sure how it got in there, but I'm thinking this was one of the keyboards we had at our work when the roof used to leak rain-water, it didn't work when drenched and we bought some other €5 keyboard to keep going. This is further confirmed by the dirt marks (they got worse during storage) - but look, no greasy marks on WSAD so it definitely was one of my work keyboards
The "after" photos:
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