So I did this today. And the result wasn't good, which makes me sad. First of all I used oven cleaner, and the chrome frame wasn't very mirror like. Also, when I glue the pieces back together, I put too much glue and it leaked through in between the gap. I was stupid and tried to wipe it off but it madew it worst and spread it instead. So now there's a splash of glue on the cover. Which makes it very ugly. I'm so sad about this took me 3 or 4 hour of work
Well the dull finish is easy to sort out. Just go buy some metal polish. You will need pleanty of rag, as you polish it the rag will go black. You may need gloves on.
If that dont work, sand it with 2000 grade sand paper, from a car shop, Halfords for exampe.
You may be able to remove the glue, with sticky suff remover, or Methylated spirits. Try on a small area 1st, may melt the plastic.
Steve
Well the dull finish is easy to sort out. Just go buy some metal polish. You will need pleanty of rag, as you polish it the rag will go black. You may need gloves on.
If that dont work, sand it with 2000 grade sand paper, from a car shop, Halfords for exampe.
You may be able to remove the glue, with sticky suff remover, or Methylated spirits. Try on a small area 1st, may melt the plastic.
Steve
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Most diy shops sell, superglue remover. Again test 1st
Steve
thank you for your help.
I have no idea how people can just polish their case for 10 min. I did mine for at least 30 min and the black stuffs just never stopped coming off. It's like inifinite so I gave up.. so that's why my case isn't mirror-like
Ill pay for someone to do this to my sensation 4g back cover!
Anyone?
haha. So i just spent more time polishing the middle part again (where the HTC sign is). After more than an hour, it finally looked more mirror-like, but i could still get a LOT of black stuffs out if I keep polishing. It does look pretty awesome after more polishing.
For the bezel, I don't think I should polish any more (even though they are not shiny at all) because I already glued the 2 pieces back onto the frame, and it would be a mess to polish the frame with the 2 pieces there.
it took me a day! so i have polished so much that also the black htc logo had become chromed
I was disappointed when the black HTC was chromed so I started to rubb it with my thumb and voila some black paste came out and now it's black again.
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The htc logo are some black coloured chrome stickers. You could just pull them out, clear away the glue with a cocktail stick. Then its black undeneath
Steve
The htc logo are some black coloured chrome stickers. You could just pull them out, clear away the glue with a cocktail stick. Then its black undeneath
Steve
it is pretty hard to get them out [/QUOte[/I]
I got a small razor blade, under them
Steve
I bought some on ebay.. check the earlier post.. I think I put the sellers name..
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Hey guys!
Bought the blue magic stuff, DEFINITELY not interested in sanding, so I decided to use the chemical route instead. I bought some Klean-Strip aircraft paint remover at my local pep boys for like 8.99, im on my third coat now which I let sit for 20 minutes per coat and NOTHING IS HAPPENING WTF lol...
How many coats is it going to take before I start to see aluminium? it says that the paint is supposed to blister / peel but there is nothing like that at all.
*note for process thus far, using a hair dryer I EASILY removed the plastic pieces without any prying (because I was too afraid to bend and bow things out of place)
what should I use to seriously get this stuff of, I was told aircraft paint remover was serious business. guess not.