A $1.48 goes a long way... Black Battery Cover! - Page 60

platin465 · #**591** (**permalink**) 12-31-2008, 12:18 PM

Ready to try this out, and was looking into mixing colors. I found these sites that may help others:

Liquid/powder availability:
http://www.ritdye.com/Color+Chart.4.lasso

Mixing:
http://www.ritdye.com/Create+Custom+Color.9.lasso
http://www.basketclass.com/ritdye.html
http://paintedthreadsprojects.blogsp...g-rit-dye.html

I think I'm going for some sort of blue, but not sure yet. Also thinking of doing a gradiant. We'll see how it comes out.

Exil3d · #**592** (**permalink**) 12-31-2008, 01:05 PM

WOW! My back cover turned gly gold color! I will have to try this out or find another solution.

HTCFord · #**593** (**permalink**) 12-31-2008, 01:27 PM

Just got some RIT dye from RiteAid...Getting ready to turn the stove on! If I mess it up I have an extra cover they gave me when my phone was replaced.

HTCFord · #**594** (**permalink**) 12-31-2008, 02:35 PM

Great Success! I dyed one it came out so good I dyed the other. One thing I did different than most is I tied a thin peice of fishing line in a loop through the hole at the bottom of the cover to make it easier to handle. Then once I pulled the cover out and buffed it I let it dry on the fishing line.

ki4ppg · #**595** (**permalink**) 12-31-2008, 04:29 PM

Best $1.77 tax included ive ever spent thx all

pokerrus78 · #**596** (**permalink**) 12-31-2008, 10:32 PM

hay D/\sh you still going to post some pics of you your vogue?

**twe90kid** · #**597** (**permalink**) 01-01-2009, 12:15 AM

hmm someone on the forum is selling these pre-dyed covers for about $15 shipped. you guys think it's a decent price? i can't get access to these covers therefore i must buy one. what you think?

**[sammich]** · #**598** (**permalink**) 01-01-2009, 01:31 AM

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Originally Posted by twe90kid

hmm someone on the forum is selling these pre-dyed covers for about $15 shipped. you guys think it's a decent price? i can't get access to these covers therefore i must buy one. what you think?

I think $10 is a great price, $15 aint too shabby. But you'll be surprised at how much more it makes you like your phone. I keep wanting to look at my phone because the black cover looks muccchhh nicer.

Oh, and whoever I traded covers with, I'm sorry I lost your screen name because I deleted my PM's. THANK YOU SO MUCH to whoever it was, the cover is GREAT!

henbone11 · #**599** (**permalink**) 01-01-2009, 09:48 PM

I did mine and my girlfriend's covers today. I went with straight black and it turned out great. My girlfriend decided to be fancy and choose purple. Which means that I mixed Scarlet and Navy Blue. It turned out very dark. For the most part hers looks black, but in some light it looks purple. I told her to just accept red and she almost went with it, but then decided on purple at the last second. They both turned out perfectly, with hers being darker than she wanted. Thanks for the idea and steps. Appreciate it.

BTW, I used the liquid dye. Very little buffing was required, basically just to even it out.

fr4nk1yn · #**600** (**permalink**) 01-01-2009, 11:32 PM

Got my Pro the other night and dyed it the same color as my Diamond was.
Half a bottle of Scarlet liquid did it. Spectacular result.

I need to source another so I can try "Light Royal Blue" to match my car (:

I had the spot around the lens and "boiled" it for 20minutes more and it came off.
I've had NO dye rub off in my hands this time around.

Fantastic mod. Maybe the best for the Pro (:,

I also had little buffing to do. It probably wasn't necessary at all.