[sdiy] changing colours on banana inputs

[Oren Leavitt]

Colored Christmas lights!
String 'em around your synth, placing a bulb of the desired color by 
each banana jack.

Or more seriously, degloss 'em a bit with fine sand paper, and try 
coloring them with various colored Sharpie pens.

Peter Grenader wrote:

>You're in luck in that the bananas you are canaging are white, there is a
>MUCH easier way:  
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>Wear colored sunglasses!
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>on 1/24/03 10:23 AM, Tony Clark at clark at andrews.edu wrote:
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>>>this may be a weird question, but is there a way to change the colour of a
>>>banana plug input chassis? i've got a whole bunch of white ones, and would
>>>like some to be different colours. paint will probably peel off the plastic
>>>after a while.
>>>would there be any way of changing their colour permanently? chemical bath?
>>>exposure to light, sound, radiation, screaming kids, or toxics? etc.. ;-)
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>>Well it depends on the type of material, but dye-ing would be the best
>>way to pull it off.  Just take some normal clothing dye and follow
>>instructions (usually just added to boiling water).
>>This is typically how all (black) Nylon plastic parts are treated.
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>>Cheers,
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>>Tony
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