Rubbery sticky thingamajigys...

not widely sold for laptops but my bro had some sticker that he used on his blackberry because teh surface was so slippery... it had circular dots raised and offered nice grip...

i had some... just cant remember the dang name of it...

comes in clear, or black and even some fashion colors and prints.

anyone?

 

do you mean those rubber things which phones slide into ?
It may be some kind of texturized film, but I am not sure. Ask your bro

K-TRON

 

Yeah, i have no idea what you are referring to. You should ask your bro, after all, he shouldn't be too hard to get a hold of should he?

 

Just happen to still have some left and the package says egrips. Add dot com and you have the web site. I seriously doubt they would work on a laptop as the weight would pull them off, but who knows. Got mine at Compusa a couple of years ago.

 

After looking at thier site I see they make some for laptops so they might work.

 

THAT'S IT!!!

E-Grips!

i love these things...
except that after a while, they tend to wear out...

instead of sticking the whole sticker on my iPhone, i took a belt hole puncher and punched out some "dots" of these and stuck in on the back of my phone for added grip...

if you put it all over, it's great but when you take the phone out the pocket, it pulls everything out as well...

now i'm going to put a strip of it on the underside of my laptop...

i also use this when the little bumps on the "f" and "j" key wear out...

the only drawback to them is that the adhesive is weak to constant heat... while cool, it holds very nicely... but on a warm surface, the glue can turn to gunk...

 

woopsie...

doubly excited...
doubly posted...

ha ha ha

 

king, you just had to get an iphone didnt you
You should get a stand for it, sof you can do that touch screen stuff in your aston, while racing those punks with supped up honda's

K-TRON

 

K-Tron, my poor car is sitting in the garage collecting dust..
i only have 777 miles on it since the day i've received it almost a year ago.

and i dont want to put some stand on my dash bro... actually, if you sit inside any Aston Martin, you will feel immediately that the field of vision is not too big...

hey, have you worked with molding plastics?

 

Well I have molded plexiglas before, and some light plastics, but that is all.
It takes a lot of time to master, and havng the right tools helps. What I did at one point was use a long steel rod threaded into the muffler connection on an engine. That allowed me to get lots of heat, and a pretty constant temperature along the rod, allowing me to bend and mold the plastic. It works, but make sure you are wearing a mask, cause melting plastic is toxic, so having proper facial protection is a must.
For thin plastic, you could probably use a soldering iron (not the tip, the round shaft, to melt the plastic)
All you need is a bit of heat, and the plastic will denature and allow it to be worked with.
for heavy plastics you can use a low pressure torch, but that may be more than what you are looking to do

K-TRON

 

well, kinda geeky looking but when i was in Korea, i saw these little blind spot mirrors that they sell. you can attach them on outside of your car or on inside, in addition to the regular side mirrors.

well, it so happens that the aston martin has a HUGE blindspot... and i notice that there is a small wedge window that does not move... so i was thinking of making a plastic housing for the convex mirror so i can put it discrelety inside the car... and perhaps even sneak in a radar detector in there as well...

ha ha ha... one of these days, you and i should get together on a weekend in a workshop... that'll be fun... ha ha ha