{"id":627,"date":"2007-04-10T21:52:23","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T02:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2007-04-10T21:52:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T02:52:23","slug":"stripping-the-words-from-a-cruzer-1gb-usb-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"Stripping the Words From a Cruzer 1gb USB Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandisk.com\/Products\/Item(1919)-SDCZ6-1024-SanDisk_Cruzer_Micro_1GB_Black__New.aspx\">Cruzer 1gb USB Drive<\/a> a while back, since I really needed a USB drive. I liked it enough for a while, but the white writing on it was really ugly and the orange light isn&#8217;t the best color in the world, but I can&#8217;t (easily) change the light. What I could do was strip the words off of the drive though. I thought of a lot of different ways I could do this, but I asked my uncle and he recommended nail polish remover or gasoline. I didn&#8217;t have any gasoline on hand, so I used nail polish remover. After an hour or so of rubbing and some buffing with cardboard and buffing cloths, I have a really nice-looking USB drive. I wish I could make it shinier, I want a PS3-like finish on it, but I&#8217;ll settle for what I have. It does look really good I think:<\/p>\n<div class='tabblo'>\n<div><a href='http:\/\/www.tabblo.com\/studio\/stories\/shared\/15693\/nws03ba46p1foe8'><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tabblo.com\/studio\/image\/public\/123039\/4191c16cf36d44b6eb7fce0a6268275a.jpg\" alt='Tabblo: Cruzer 1gb Stripped' height='415' width='415' border='0'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a Cruzer 1gb USB Drive a while back, since I really needed a USB drive. I liked it enough for a while, but the white writing on it was really ugly and the orange light isn&#8217;t the best color in the world, but I can&#8217;t (easily) change the light. What I could do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,48],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-general","tag-computers","tag-life-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}