Dye removal or re-dying

Post by **Dr. Robotnik** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:43 am

Hi guys and girls,

I know this has probably been asked a million times before and at the very least probably answered a million times by shodog.

However I have some really badly dyed parts (blotchy black and fluroescent pink) for the RC10 which would look a whole lot better dyed black. My question is, if I clean and prepare them for dying in the normal manner and then re-dye them will they all become flat black or will they be blotchy again?

Thanks for the help.

Ed

Post by **shodog** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:48 am

Make sure you get all the grease and oil off of them and then boil them for a while in some black dye and they'll come out nice and black.

Post by **Dr. Robotnik** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:49 am

Thanks a lot for the quick reply and for clearing that up. I just need to find RIT dye in the UK (easier said than done)

Post by **Asso_man!** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:02 pm

Dr. Robotnik wrote:Thanks a lot for the quick reply and for clearing that up. I just need to find RIT dye in the UK (easier said than done)

DYLON dye will work fine to dye RPM parts and I think it should be available in the UK, I would also like to know where to find that famous "RIT" dye in Europe

... mmmh

Post by **shodog** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:15 pm

I suspect there is a dye manufacturer in the UK that has a product that works just as well as RIT dye

It's just that RIT dye is easily available in grocery stores

Post by **shodog** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:17 pm

Looks like there are listings for RIT dye on ebay. some people will ship worldwide

http://search.ebay.com/rit-dye_W0QQfromZR40

Post by **Tadracket** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:20 pm

Sole distro for RIT in UK??

http://www.goodwear.co.uk/index.php?act=viewCat&catId=10

Post by **badhoopty** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:47 pm

rit dye is just fabric dye. i'm sure if you go to any fabric store they should have something like it.

Post by **hkp** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:03 pm

In my experience Dylon is fine. Dyes nice and deep black and is available in branches of Woolworths for about £3

Post by **Dr. Robotnik** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:33 am

FERRETTI wrote:
I got mine from here http://www.craftandtrimmingsonline.co.uk.

Thanks a lot Ferretti and everyone else for replying but I think I am going to go ahead and try out the website above to try and get the rit dye.

Cheers

Post by **hellbelly** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:28 am

Just for info, I've used Dylon Multipurpose on loads of nylon RC parts, works great

Pete

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