[TUTORIAL] Pimp your Desire HD!
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@OP
take a look at the following post
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1127142
He's used chemicals like ferric chloride so that the brushed aluminium doesnt get scratched. Maybe you could also do so and post the pics so that amateurs like could also do so.
Thanks keep it up mate.
take a look at the following post
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1127142
He's used chemicals like ferric chloride so that the brushed aluminium doesnt get scratched. Maybe you could also do so and post the pics so that amateurs like could also do so.
Thanks keep it up mate.
At the moment everything still looks good
@OP
take a look at the following post
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1127142
He's used chemicals like ferric chloride so that the brushed aluminium doesnt get scratched. Maybe you could also do so and post the pics so that amateurs like could also do so.
Thanks keep it up mate.
I've seen that a while ago. Maybe i'll try something like that with my next phone. I'll keep the DHD as it is at the moment.
But thanks for the link
now i have a question!
a friend of mine has a thing you can powder-coated in any color this would be great but the aluminum gets up to 200C hot. I dont know if thats to hot for that aluminium...???
and the other question is what color should i choose?? he has nearly all of'em....
any ideas?
a friend of mine has a thing you can powder-coated in any color this would be great but the aluminum gets up to 200C hot. I dont know if thats to hot for that aluminium...???
and the other question is what color should i choose?? he has nearly all of'em....
any ideas?
Shouldn't be, aluminium melts at around 1000 C I THINK. And if you can choose whatever you want, an orange phone would be sick. You'd have to paint the other parts too though, doesn't go very well with brown...
Wow, that would be nice!
I was thinking about that too, but i didn't know anybody that could help me with that.
I was thinking about that too, but i didn't know anybody that could help me with that.
Moar modding!
I'm going to take it a step further.
I think polishing the device would look epic in combination with this image burned in the phone using a laser cutter
What do you guys think??
I'm going to take it a step further.
I think polishing the device would look epic in combination with this image burned in the phone using a laser cutter
What do you guys think??
It really looks stylish, we already did much PC casemodding, but it's good to see that it's also coming up for smartphones, many will follow your decision to casemod their phones.
Do you all that equipment at home, or a workplace of a company or something?
Do you all that equipment at home, or a workplace of a company or something?
I've got some connections with a company were i can make stickers or engrave stuff. But i also have a large workplace at school were i can make almost everything
And...! Even better idea!
I'm going to try something!
I will try to remake the plastic parts on the back of the phone. I'm going to make them digital in solidworks. Then i will engrave moulds out of aluminum and fill them with liquid plastic. So i can make my own plastic parts in pretty much every color i want!
If this is going to be a succes i will put them online for sale for a very nice price
I'm thinking about a modding service for phones
I've got some connections with a company were i can make stickers or engrave stuff. But i also have a large workplace at school were i can make almost everything
And...! Even better idea!
I'm going to try something!
I will try to remake the plastic parts on the back of the phone. I'm going to make them digital in solidworks. Then i will engrave moulds out of aluminum and fill them with liquid plastic. So i can make my own plastic parts in pretty much every color i want!
If this is going to be a succes i will put them online for sale for a very nice price
The school I am on is really ****ty in that, we have almost nothing here, but indeed modding is cool to do and if you can earn money with it would be great!
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55Hey guys,
I've seen the chromed Desire HD on the XDA front page and thought it was totally awesome. So i did it with my own phone too, but i wanted something extra, so i've also painted some stuff.
And maybe some more people want to do it but don't know how.. That's the reason i've made this short tutorial
And also post your own results in this topic
Let's start the pimping:
First up is removing this little sticker and pull out the volume button thingy with some tweezers or a small screwdriver
The next step is removing the GPS antenna. This is the small rubber piece that also holds the plastic glass for the dual LED's.
This is a hard piece to remove and i don't have pictures of this procedure. But i think the best way is to carefully open/push away the 8 plastic pins on the sides of the rubber with a sharp stanley knife. I started at the top and went round the entire think. Slowly it will pop out of the body.
Then you have to remove 5 screws with a small skrewdriver thing. I tried some of mine until one fitted. Don't know witch size it is exactly.
After you've removed the 5 screws you can carefully remove the body from the phone. You have to tilt it a little bit because the light sensor (the most right dot at the side of the speaker grill) is a little bit sunk into the body.
The next step is to remove all the small little pieces from the aluminium piece.
The camera cover has 4 little metal taps that you have to fold a little bit to the inside, then it will fall out of the body.
The other 3 things are easily to remove, their held in place with some double sticky tape stuff.
Now it's time to sand the thing until you've got the result you want. I didn't want to have it really shiny so i stopped when i got a nice brushed look. But if you want to have it shine you just have to keep sanding (up to grid 2500).
I've started with a sandpaper with grid size 200. After all the paint was gone i've wet sanded with 400 and after that 800. These are my results:
When i was sanding i noticed the HTC logo letters were falling out
I removed them. After the sanding I've painted them black with a very fluid paint so it will fill up the gap nicely. The excess paint you can easily sand away with grid 800.
In the meantime when the paint had to dry i roughened up the surface of the small pieces and prepared them fore a paint job.
After two layers of standard spray paint (color mat traffic red) i noticed i didn't like the red speaker grill. It was just ugly. So i've sanded the paint off of the piece and painted it black
The next step would be to glue the small pieces back on the body. I don't know exactly what glue it was. But it's glue that is pretty fluid and dries up pretty quickly. The English translation would be 'secondglue' but i don't know that's the right description ^^
Have fun modding your Desire HD and show me your results
Regards, Bas
3Hi guys, I finally started modding my DHD, I had a few problems and there are still some elements that need to be redone (paint peeled off) but in overall I think it looks cool
MORE PICS The back is all matte black (powder paint) and all the elements are sprayed "Ferrari Red" Sorry for bad quality pics but I took them with Xperia X10 mini pro. In reality the red really stands out, on pics it look a bit faded.2My pimpin
here is my work.
only broken thing is me thumb and my volume down key :laugh:
i used 400, 320, 200 sandpaper, standart sprey paint and some glue to re-attach buttons to cover shell..
sanding is the most diffiuclt part of all.2
