Well, you actualy have to design the case to allow painting. Paint has THICKNESS. So if you look at the clearence for buttons, you would have one clearence for a non painted plastic and a bigger clearence for a painted plastic part. I have made this mistake before, when I wanted to change colors at the last minute and the painted plastic parts didnt exactly provide the types of clearences ( etc) that you need. All that said, there are parts on FR that could be painted without ruining fit and function. The back cover, and front cover The middle part which houses the UBS, ext ant, etc etc, is the part I would worry about painting, because of the clearence problem for the connectors and buttons that are brought out through that plane of the device.
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Le Roux Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:04 AM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: Colored cases, etc - Was Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update Hmm in this goal, why not Openmoko.com to sell "blank" case, non finished ones, witout any painting, just to be customized/adapted later ? I don't think only with painting, but integrate an eye cam or other expansion pack, or wifi external connectors for example... Even one water proof why not :) On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Steven ** <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: For the one off, you could check out http://www.emachineshop.com They do injection molding of various plastics in "many" colors. I'm not sure if you could make a profit by having them make a ton of cases and then reselling them or not. -Steven On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Hugo Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe there's someone out there with the know-how to make blank > cases based on the published OM designs? I'd guess it's a matter of > making suitable injection-moulded components -- front and back -- and > then either ringing the changes with the plastic colour used, or just > selling white ones that can then be painted and lacquered. I have no > idea of the economics of injection moulding, though. > > Hugo. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Steven Le Roux Jabber-ID : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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