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I didnt see this up anywhere but then again i didnt really look just thought id share my experience in dying my battery door cover.
First of all sprint decided to pick that champagne snotty color for the TP and I really couldnt see myself living with it. After searching around web world I came across something that seemed to work. After some fine tuning I headed to Micheals(The hobby shop where i live) and went and got some fabric dye. Some prefer liquid I however like the powder. Im cool with black so i stuck whith simple black in color however i am still experimenting with others.
I got some water in a pot( preferably a pot you wil never use just becuase you probably wont want to cook in it again).
Heated it to about 4 or 5 on my stove i have gas burner so basically just below a boil but warm enough to see some steam and burn yourself if you leave your hand in.
Then poured the dye in stiring pretty muich the entire rest of the time. I used a plastic spoon and a spatchla just so no scratches on your cover.
Next step DROP YOUR TOUCH PRO COVER DIRECTLY INTO THE WATER DO NOT COVER THE CAMERA LENS OR ANYTHING. You can cover portins of the cover if you really want to to make a design but for a solid look no need.
Stir in dye mix for aproximatley 9-12 minutes depending on how you like the color it should appear like a charcoal texture when ready to be taken out.
Go ahead and take the cover out and place on some paper towels. Paper towels are key otherwise big mess etc.....
pour some cool water over cover then sing another paper towel dry and lightly buff the cover till you see basically nothing come off on the paper towel.
Let it stand for about 20 min and voila your cover is ready to go back on.
When i did it the first time it did dye the inside of the cover but who cares still looks sweet I have pics of what it looks like. Also the other side to this is the cover still feels like the origional cover just simply looks better. Ive had my origional dye job on my phone for at least 2 months and no rubbing off at all and have got plenty of compliments from other tp sprint users whom really want it
its super easy to do and yes for the record i droped my leftover dye into a milk carton that was emptied and have used it 3 times since the first and had no issues with it. The dye only cost $2-$3 bucks so it is clearly worth it to me and maybe others out there! Enjoy!! Oh yea also a go for the diamond on sprint I have both pictured! By the way in case it wasnt mentioned i did not come up with this idea by myself I just thought AMJ might need this post!
First of all sprint decided to pick that champagne snotty color for the TP and I really couldnt see myself living with it. After searching around web world I came across something that seemed to work. After some fine tuning I headed to Micheals(The hobby shop where i live) and went and got some fabric dye. Some prefer liquid I however like the powder. Im cool with black so i stuck whith simple black in color however i am still experimenting with others.
I got some water in a pot( preferably a pot you wil never use just becuase you probably wont want to cook in it again).
Heated it to about 4 or 5 on my stove i have gas burner so basically just below a boil but warm enough to see some steam and burn yourself if you leave your hand in.
Then poured the dye in stiring pretty muich the entire rest of the time. I used a plastic spoon and a spatchla just so no scratches on your cover.
Next step DROP YOUR TOUCH PRO COVER DIRECTLY INTO THE WATER DO NOT COVER THE CAMERA LENS OR ANYTHING. You can cover portins of the cover if you really want to to make a design but for a solid look no need.
Stir in dye mix for aproximatley 9-12 minutes depending on how you like the color it should appear like a charcoal texture when ready to be taken out.
Go ahead and take the cover out and place on some paper towels. Paper towels are key otherwise big mess etc.....
pour some cool water over cover then sing another paper towel dry and lightly buff the cover till you see basically nothing come off on the paper towel.
Let it stand for about 20 min and voila your cover is ready to go back on.
When i did it the first time it did dye the inside of the cover but who cares still looks sweet I have pics of what it looks like. Also the other side to this is the cover still feels like the origional cover just simply looks better. Ive had my origional dye job on my phone for at least 2 months and no rubbing off at all and have got plenty of compliments from other tp sprint users whom really want it
its super easy to do and yes for the record i droped my leftover dye into a milk carton that was emptied and have used it 3 times since the first and had no issues with it. The dye only cost $2-$3 bucks so it is clearly worth it to me and maybe others out there! Enjoy!! Oh yea also a go for the diamond on sprint I have both pictured! By the way in case it wasnt mentioned i did not come up with this idea by myself I just thought AMJ might need this post!
