I bought it pretty much bare bones and added fingerprint reader, SSD, WWAN etc.


Haha come on the tire tread sticker gets no love? I mean...carbon fiber...tire track...cars...stuff..No? Nothing?Tasurinchi wrote:![]()
I like the sticker on the palmrest! (not so much on the cover lid, but that's just me)
Ha ha...megacrazy wrote:I mean...carbon fiber...tire track...cars...stuff..No? Nothing?
Oh, they are not pre-cut but it's very easy to work with the material. You need a heat gun, sharp knife and some patience.Fixed_Rider wrote:I love the carbon overlays! The tire track isn't bad.
Do you know if one can obtain these without the tire track?
Are these precut or do they come on a sheet?
Thanks
Warm enough to melt the palm rest, as i learned not too long ago...Cola wrote:How warm does it get when you use a heat gun?
Haha. Well don't go crazy with the heat gun. You could also use a hairdryer just to be safe. I removed all electronic parts before I did it...which is probably advisable. Here's what I have learned:DaKKS wrote:Warm enough to melt the palm rest, as i learned not too long ago...
Well I expected it to be a pain. Originally I was just going to apply to the top surface, not wrap the whole thing. I did some testing and the material is REAL easy to work with. You heat it up it stretches quite a lot without ripping. So, no, I did not cut anything. I stretched it enough to go on smoothly. Then I cut away any excess on the inside of the cover to make sure the screen bezel went back on smoothly.Fixed_Rider wrote:Thank you for the tips!
How did you wrap the lid corners so well? Does the heated material stretch enough or did you do relief cuts and remove material?
From all the videos I watched doing this to laptops none had the extreme hard edge or corner of a ThinkPad lid to deal with.
Wouldnt quite go as far as crazy, but I did use an industry specced heat gun. Which according to the owner, and I quote, "Will burn yer boIIocks off." This wasn't your 30 quid tesco heat gun, mind you.megacrazy wrote:
Haha. Well don't go crazy with the heat gun. You could also use a hairdryer just to be safe. I removed all electronic parts before I did it...which is probably advisable. Here's what I have learned:
- It's probably a good idea to remove the top cover and wrap it separately. You have to remove it to cut around the edges anyway.
- It's probably a good idea to remove the fingerprint reader before you heat up the palm rest. They seem to be sensitive to high temperatures.
Hahaha well you should've probably stopped at "burn yer bollocks off". Glad it all worked out in the end.DaKKS wrote:
Wouldnt quite go as far as crazy, but I did use an industry specced heat gun. Which according to the owner, and I quote, "Will burn yer boIIocks off." This wasn't your 30 quid tesco heat gun, mind you.
Also, I was using automotive vinyl wrap, which is slightly thicker and not, I repeat NOT, suitable for computers or any other piece of technology below 500kg...
Thankfully I managed to find a T42 for cheap that had gone one a late night swim in the Mediterranean. So the plastics are all but new now.
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