Paint Your Linksys WRT54G Router
Pimp
Out Your Showpiece
Why
would you want to spray paint your router? My wife was asking
the same question. I'm not exactly sure.
A
part of it is the joy of customizing your gear. You can pimp
it out metallic gold or if you are into eighties crap you
can spray it with rock texture paint.
Another
compelling reason to paint the router is to blend it in the
surrounding which is the main reason I painted mine semi-gloss
white [Fig. 1].
It's
very easy to do. All you need is a can of paint, an old newspaper
to protect from overspray and patience.
Fig. 1 WRT54G painted white
You
could use a brute force approach and slap the paint over the
assembled router. This is easy enough to do but the results
do not look very professional. On top of that covering the
face decal with paint is not the best idea. What we really
need to do is take the WRT54G apart.
First
we have to learn how to open
the WRT54G housing.
When
done remove the face decal by inserting an exacto blade or
another pointy object under one of the corners. Carefully
peel the decal off and place it in a safe place with sticky
side up. You can also place it sticky side down onto a slick
bumper sticker backing.
To
remove the rubber feet by insert a screwdriver into the hole
and pop the feet off.
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