pics of my Silver ESX

lukas412 · Post by **lukas412** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:07 pm

plosive wrote:what cleaner did you end up using Luke?

This stuff:

Took a couple of coatings, but it worked and came off clean. I should mention, that after doing this, the aluminum is unprotected and will pick up the oil and grime from your hands pretty quickly. I think it kinda adds to the mad max look stripping it gives it, but some may not. I'm sure you could spray it with some kind of clear coat once it's stripped. Also the legend stayed perfectly intact on mine so you can still read it. I think it looks 100% better than the pink/red.

Here are a couple pics:

Luke

supermel74 · Post by **supermel74** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:30 pm

Thanks for posting the pics Lukas. Looks great. I think I'm convinced now.

gil videla · Post by **gil videla** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:14 pm

supermel74 wrote:Thanks for posting the pics Lukas. Looks great. I think I'm convinced now.

Maybe I should Easy off my EMX now too?

I convinced myself if I do that, it will keep me from ever selling the EMX.
I vacillate all the time about it, taking off the blue would be an insurance policy that I couldn't sell it for what it's worth

gil videla · Post by **gil videla** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:17 pm

lukas412 wrote:
plosive wrote:what cleaner did you end up using Luke?

Luke

what is that black unit sitting to the right of the esx

lukas412 · Post by **lukas412** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:47 pm

gil videla wrote:what is that black unit sitting to the right of the esx

It's a MidiBox SID. Fully stuffed MB6582. 8 SID 6582 chips, stereo analog SSM2044 filters. Fun stuff anyone can build one.

You can read more here:
http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/doku.ph ... ba_mb_6582

Aciphecs · Post by **Aciphecs** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 5:09 pm

They had this clearner at our local ACE hardware store. I'm strippin my ESX tonight!

Hopefully my new tubes arrive today too and I can plug those babies in while I'm taking it apart anyway

supermel74 · Post by **supermel74** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 5:19 pm

Aciphecs wrote:They had this clearner at our local ACE hardware store. I'm strippin my ESX tonight!

Hopefully my new tubes arrive today too and I can plug those babies in while I'm taking it apart anyway

Please post the after pics and tell us what cleaner you used if you would be so kind? Thanks.

Aciphecs · Post by **Aciphecs** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:37 pm

supermel74 wrote:
Aciphecs wrote:They had this clearner at our local ACE hardware store. I'm strippin my ESX tonight!

Hopefully my new tubes arrive today too and I can plug those babies in while I'm taking it apart anyway
Please post the after pics and tell us what cleaner you used if you would be so kind? Thanks.

Will do! Might not be till next week now- shipping was delayed on my new tubes and wanted to mod it all in one shot.

djfrogstar · Post by **djfrogstar** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:50 pm

time to styleflip that electribe

sadist%vince · Post by **sadist%vince** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:00 pm

I wonder if it would work on the Kaoss pad 3 also? It would be nice to have all silver matching machines...

djfrogstar · Post by **djfrogstar** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:36 pm

sadist%vince wrote:I wonder if it would work on the Kaoss pad 3 also? It would be nice to have all silver matching machines...

try it?

gil videla · Post by **gil videla** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:18 am

djfrogstar wrote:
sadist%vince wrote:I wonder if it would work on the Kaoss pad 3 also? It would be nice to have all silver matching machines...
try it?

I didn't think the KP3 was anodyzed though. Isn't a black sorta hard plastic casing?

supermel74 · Post by **supermel74** » Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:17 pm

gil videla wrote:
djfrogstar wrote:
sadist%vince wrote:I wonder if it would work on the Kaoss pad 3 also? It would be nice to have all silver matching machines...
try it?

I didn't think the KP3 was anodyzed though. Isn't a black sorta hard plastic casing?

the casing is metal, but probably paint

Milhouse · Post by **Milhouse** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 5:11 pm

Does this work with the older ESX or only with the newer ones.

Aciphecs · Post by **Aciphecs** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:26 pm

Milhouse wrote:Does this work with the older ESX or only with the newer ones.

It also works with the older ones too! I did it to mine, which is over 5 yrs old. It didn't come out as nice as the one pictured here and it took over an hour of multiple coatings of oven cleaner, but I was happy with the results. I would post my pic, but I'm at work and can't access the URL.

I see you are on the Electribe Forum too, you can see the results there.