Adhesive vinyl overlays - C47 & WP43 (DM42), WP3xS, DB48X, newRPL variants available!

[johnb]

Well, I received Spiff's nice new (spiffy?) matte overlays this week, and re-did both my WP-34s (which was getting a little ratty from all its use), and my WP-31s (which I was hardly using because of the glare from my desk lamp upon the very glossy overlay that was on it).

I used a trick recommended to me by user @grbrum -- a black sharpie!

1. I removed the back overlay. The key tops were in good condition so I decided not to replace those just yet.
2. Using a black sharpie, I carefully masked out the silver parts of the calculator that were likely to be exposed in the gaps between the back overlay and the keys.
3. Using a fine point black sharpie, I even more carefully colored in the white edges of the keytop overlays so that visually there's no boundary between them and the keys.
4. I applied the back overlay and smoothed everything down.
   

I've included before/during/after photos of my WP-34s. The 31s turned out spectacularly, too, but I didn't have time to fiddle with the lighting to get photos that truly reveal the difference between the glare of the originals and the nice matte surface of Spiff's new ones.

[Edit: attached here, "Before" (ratty and worn).]