Gadgetory

if there's one thing that really grinds my gears about computer components it is their apparent obsession that their creators have with putting glossy plastic on all the places it really should not be I don't know if how we still have this problem I'll admit it hasn't really been as bad lately but it does still happen anyways in a fit of rage after marketing up yet another glossy plastic surface I ran to the store and assembled the tools I thought I may need to transform glossy plastic surface into a beautiful brushed finished Intel's new 750 series SSDs utilize the nvme standard providing speeds never seen before on consumer storage drives click now to learn more so how do we make this transformation from a piece of glossy plastic to a nice brushed finish I chose to tackle this in the best way I know how there's scientific testing I assemble the necessary tools sandpaper in 320 400 800 and 1000 grit I ideally want to feature 600 grit as well but I wasn't able to source any locally I also grabbed grade 0 and grade 3 steel wool and three rough 3m stripping pads the kind you'd use to scrub hard to clean things or remove some type of thing off on a surface they were labeled as heavy contour surface stripping and final most of these were used individually but the sandpaper will be used in succession starting at 320 grit and ending at 1,000 once I had these tools at my side I found some surfaces with a glossy finish namely an original Nintendo Wii the back of an Asus monitor and an old Seagate go flex satellite but Luke you may be saying why ruin a perfectly good we monitor and go flex drive for the sake of your silly experiment of course I would not be doing this with my own way and to do this test the way that we're using is actually Linus's you may have noticed its appearance to be fairly nasty with a bunch of marks and old sticky areas all over it only a man with true disregard for his gaming systems would leave them in this state plus he's out of the country right now so he probably won't mind anyways let's see it - do you mind if we easier.we to test like scratching glossy plastic off things no answer means no problem when it comes to the monitor well we decided to use this monitor because the glossy portion is actually on the back as well meaning that we could experiment with it and if it came out looking absolutely terrible I could just use it normally and never have to see my massive failure ever again and if it worked well I could transition over to the front of the monitor and change that side over to brush plastic finished as well with the material that I found to leave the most appealing faux brush plastic finish and seagate drive well I'm sure it was beautiful at one time but nowadays it is pretty faded a bit scratched and covered in fingerprints this device will be the last one that I use and I'll use my favorite method on it to see what it can accomplish on something like this so with testing surfaces in place I tape taped off sections for each material so that I could compare the efficiency of each in a well-organized fashion this may result in a weird look once I pull the tape off and will ultimately kind of ruin the aesthetic of these devices at least at first but this is the video for you guys and I'm sure Linus won't mind so here we go I started with the we I pour shinned off one side of it for the three levels of 3m pad and the other side for the two varieties of steel wool as well as the sandpaper combination to my eye it seems like the guru zero grade still won't provided the best finish on the white surface of the Wii but it was actually fairly hard to tell as the white brushed plastic doesn't really have the same shine we're accustomed to seeing on black brush plastic in the end they all seemed pretty similar to be completely honest on white brush plastic so I think you'd be pretty happy with any of these solutions my favorite part of this procedure on the Wii was less giving it a brushed look and more just removing the shine and fingerprint potential the monitor was where we separated the men from the boys so to speak the 3m contour stripping pad provided what I think was actually a pretty amazing brush look finished for a DIY solutions like this if I hadn't been doing this for the test I may have actually been convinced that it came brush from the factory without looking all that closely the runner-up was actually a tie between the grade zero steel wool and the 3m final pad but it must be noted that it was much more difficult to get a consistent finish with the steel wool as a material was much more malleable in hand and the pads provided a nice solid base to push against and seemed to provide the most even finish overall without the need to do as many touch-ups which can result in it looking not as nice as more often than not touch up or require the need of even more touch-ups since the contour surface stripping pad perform the best on the monitor I decided to use that for the Seagate drive as well it actually provided a pretty amazing result to be honest and I think that the new finish looks pretty darn sharp compared to the old glossy version I do think it was a little harder than it could have been due to the slowly stripping away the from the white logo but in the end it was totally worth it at first I tried covering that logo with tape to protect it but in the end this just looked kind of weird and it wasn't worth it so I took it off and made it look the same as the rest so overall I think this experiment was a success well it isn't perfect I was actually able to replicate the look of brush plastic fairly well especially with these 3m pads I would definitely recommend giving these a shot if you're planning on running this experiment for yourself or if you plan on converting some of your glossy plastic to a brush finish on your own speaking of improving things I'm excited to announce a drop on mass drop today that you will certainly not see very often they're providing a build-your-own battle station setup featuring three LG 24m c57 hqp monitors which are 1080p IPS displays an Ergo tech freedom arm a triple monitor stand that has work written all over it get it cuz a freedom or whatever anyways if you want to beef up your displays then set up a triple monitor battle station this is going to be one of the more affordable ways to do so thanks to mass drops grouped by model you can check out this drop and many others in the link in the description draw a dot slash Linus tech tips that link doesn't really give us a kickback or anything but it does let them know that we sent you which lets them see how awesome the LTTE community is and makes the decision to keep supporting the channel a whole lot easier you think you ever plan on converting glossy plastic to a brushed finished or have you done so in the past have you tried varnish let me know in the comments down below or over on the forum while you're here like dislike favorite 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