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These look so good.

Checked it out, seems simple enough, half the prep is the same as a standard resto for me, and the rest is the sort of stuff you do prior to painting. Just wondering the dye is it a use once throw away or can you have several runs on it. Not that I am cheap its just that if you can reuse it would cut down on prep etc. Also the creative in me is thinking what if i mix colours………….

Well I completely missed this. Excellent work. Very interested in the whole process. Can think of a few non XBox things I could dye.

Not a bad attempt though..

Thats how I have done it in the past, although I didnt use KiCad. KiCad is the tool to use though as it has the option of essentially tracing the image making it into a cloned board.

That makes sense if you get your own gear then deffo practice practice practice

Why local, local is likely to be a small operation with higher running costs and cheaper printers. The big boys spend 100k on a printer top end model buy ten and think nothing of it. Your small mom and pop service operating out of a spare room or a garage can’t compete with that . There are so many resin printing services online. Just post the files tell them what you want, pay and wait for the mail.

I would test print with PLA then get PCBWay to resin print one. Buttons wise you could silicon cast an original button set, the really big issue is not the tampo print on the buttons, more the carbon contractors on the back of the buttons. Probably best to just case swap an original and live with the off white buttons.

https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/xbox-s-oem-controller-scan.3829/ Full scans of the S Controller. Shame its not the Duke.

Never understood why M$ didnt make official clear ones or even smoke ones.

Epic, this needs to be pinned on the first page of the forum. Its that good.

The plating that Eleflex put on the RF shield is nothing more than plain old tin plating. The bare minimum required for keeping an RF ground shield looking nice, long enough to be out of warranty before any imperfections allow rust in. Im sure that one would look lovely in an actual Chrome plate, but would be expensive due to the prep required and i5 being thin steel, which is much more effort to prep for the copper and or nickel plate , prior to the Chrome finish.

They are going up in price in the UK now, as is the usual with retro items. That said the clear green Xboxes are not so common in the UK. Maybe we needo set up some kind of exchange system.

Fine wet and dry paper, and plastic polish. Also if you have a Dremel type tool you can get small polishing pads for them, certainly easier on both your hands and sanity.

Not sure why you were told the original finish is not plating. It certainly is. Every one of my extensive collection has a plated RF shield. Maybe yours was painted previously, although it doesn't look like it in the photos. I used to work for a company that did electroplating so have shall we say a bit of experience in it. You can also solder the RF plating as I have done on a couple, cant do that with paint. That said the work looks good, considering it was less than perfect to start with it looks as good as factory if not a bit better. The factory plating was never that consistent