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Old 06-October-07, 05:57 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Question Satin or flat

Sometime in the near future i wat to paint the inside of my case black and install some blacklights,but i was wondering what type of black would absorb my standard bluelight more the satin or flat? see i dont want it to reflect
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Old 06-October-07, 11:06 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Flat paint will absorb light better. The satin paint is between gloss and flat in it's shine.
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Old 06-October-07, 11:43 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Flat paint will absorb light better. The satin paint is between gloss and flat in it's shine.

thanks

now one more ?

should i keep a blue in there or just go uv?
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Old 07-October-07, 12:39 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Stay Blue. They UV will not react at all with flat Black paint. The only reason you would want UV is if you have internal components that are UV reactive.
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Old 07-October-07, 08:38 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Stay Blue. They UV will not react at all with flat Black paint. The only reason you would want UV is if you have internal components that are UV reactive.

thanks my plan is to paint the hdds and the dvd drive also uv the other crap
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