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Ipaq Makeover

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The first thing is disassembly. Some of the plastic pieces were melt-weled together which meant the welds had to be cut, and will be epoxied back together later.

Here are the plastic peices of the case -



And the hardware-

 
I had to take the front panel apart, to get to the switch and USB cover.

Here's the front with the switch installed- ugly blue color- I'll paint it hammered black-



You can see on the back the heat welds-

 
Now I had to get the parts ready for paint- I used a large bowl of very hot water, with dishwashing detergent to wash it. I used a new scotchbrite pad to clean and scuff the plastic for paint, works very well.

Here are the parts drying off-

 
The front fascia had a big nick in it-



So a little Glazing/Spot putty (automotive) was needed.

Here's the rough application, before I sand it-

 
Front fascia after sanding smooth the spot putty-

 
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Here it is assembled. The photo below cannot convey just how much better the iPaq looks, the paint came out so well!

Now what am I going to do with this rig?????????????????

 
I was thinking about using it as a smoothwall- does it need to have 2 ethernet ports to be a firewall, as this has only 1 with no PCI slots available.
 
As much as I like this little rig, I have no use for it so it will be in the classifieds soon-
 
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