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Tucsonxb9s
| Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - 05:53 pm: |
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HMMMMMMMMMMM....Maybe by dying my black with red it'd come out in a deep burgundy/black ......may have to experiment with this. Capt Planet you're a genious! |
Chainsaw
| Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - 07:34 pm: |
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You da man. Captain! Good find! I'm gonna start calling you GENERAL planet If golfballs are made of surlyn, maybe buying blue or black or red golf balls and trying the color on them would be an easier and cheaper way to experiment with color changes? Heck, the local Putt-Putt has golf balls in all the colors of the rainbow! You got me thinkin' now, please keep us posted on longevity of the color, and how it holds up in a car wash and such. |
Rokoneer
| Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - 07:54 pm: |
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I've got a complete set of white bodywork for sale cheap to experiment with. Check the classifieds... edited by rokoneer on May 25, 2004 |
Ezblast
| Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 02:02 am: |
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Brilliant idea! GT - JOTDS! EZ |
Steviejay01
| Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 03:36 am: |
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I'm in the uk...do you reckon normal fabric dye would work then? |
Wyckedflesh
| Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 04:15 am: |
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"Rit" is normal fabric dye Stevie. |
Ingemar
| Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 04:51 am: |
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Would it be possible to leave certain areas untouched by the dye? Lets say you want to make white body work red and leave white racing stripes. |
Steviejay01
| Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 05:30 am: |
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Jesus what kinda container did you use to soak the bodywork in??!! I'd have to use the bath!!.....not gonna do that though wife would go nuts if it went purple! |
Ingemar
| Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 05:54 am: |
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been thinking about keeping the water on temperature without taking some out, boiling it and throwing it back; I'd use an old laundry washer heating element and throw that in the water to keep it on temperature. |
Captainplanet
| Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 09:20 am: |
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Stevie, I used a large rubbermaid tote from the hardware store. I did one piece of bodywork at a time. |
Mookie
| Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 11:21 am: |
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hmmm. Im thinking of dying some golf balls and then taking the power washer to them to find out how well the dye lasts under pressure. |
Glitch
| Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 11:29 am: |
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It will fade after time. The reason you might want to dye a golfball is to mark the range balls. After being hit, beat up, picked up, repeat... They fade a little, the ones that look really bad are thown away, the one that look ok get dyed again. Don't see why you couldn't re-dye your plastic if it faded a little. Former Golf Course Superintendent |
Light_keeper
| Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 12:09 pm: |
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" I'd use an old laundry washer heating element and throw that in the water to keep it on temperature." Or maybe a couple of those coils used to warm up a cup of water for tea or instant coffee. As to selective dyeing. as long as the plastic did not bleed under/thru the masking or thru the plastic it self it might work. Sandy |
M1combat
| Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 12:55 pm: |
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What about using something like rubber cement for your masking? Back in the day when I was racing slot cars (1/24) we had a rubber cement like substance that could be painted on the underside of the body (clear lexan) and then you would spray paint the underside. Once the paint dried you could peel the rubber cement off and then paint that area. It worked great for masking windows and such. Would 140 degrees be too much for rubber cement? |
Xb9er
| Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 01:13 pm: |
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I would be worried about that stuff rubbing off onto my leathers in the abdomen and knee areas. Or what happens in the rain? Will you have orange running down over the frame? Maybe you should wax it real well with a tough wax. That might help slow the inevitable fading as well. You can purchase heaters used to keep water troughs (for livestock) from freezing. Mike. |
Captainplanet
| Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 01:24 pm: |
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The dye does not rub off or wash off. It has been absorbed by the plastic. You can scratch it pretty deep before you see white. edited by captainplanet on May 26, 2004 |
Jaredkuper
| Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 05:10 pm: |
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I did dyed the brown carpet of an older car black using that exact same liquid RIT. Worked very very well... for a while. The parts of the carpet that had faded in the sun when it was brown also started to fade the new black. The black ended up a dark purple where the sun had faded it. Not sure if it will do any better on plastic, hope so. Oh well, it still looked better than the faded brown that had been there before. |
Coyote_xb12s
| Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 05:59 pm: |
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Back in the days of tye dye they used wax to keep the areas they wanted to keep from absorbing color. On plastic though, maybe you could tape off the stripes you want first, melt some candle wax and pour it into the area you want to keep from absorbing dye and let it cool off, peel the tape off and soak. Something else you could use to soak the stuff would be one of those tin tubs you keep beer in?? To keep the temperature in the 140 d level you could use a camping stove or propane burner. Most hot tap water runs around 135, depending on the setting of your water heater. |
Geofg
| Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 11:47 am: |
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The RIT folks have a uv-blocking additive they're pushing as a sun-block. I wonder if it'd help control fading. RIT Sunguard Also, there are all sorts of uv-blocking coats/waxes. They should help reduce the fade, too. -Geof |
Mookie
| Posted on Saturday, May 29, 2004 - 07:14 pm: |
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can anyone see a downside to this other than having to go from a bright color to a darker in the future? Im considering it at the moment. I want to do orange and then in the future if it faded I would go black. |