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Dont know if this is the correct place to post my question, but how are you guys dying your parts? And can parts already dyed become black easily?


Thanks

Dye parts just like you were dying cloths. I went to the thrift store and bought a old sauce pan for $2.00, add the dye, water and salt - bring to a boil , add your parts. The longer you boil the darker the color. I would say "Yes" black should cover most other colors. "Good Luck"

Craig

if your bbq has a burner, then boil on that. otherwise you'll have some splainin to do to the wife when she finds black specks of dye all over the kitchen

shodog wrote:if your bbq has a burner, then boil on that. otherwise you'll have some splainin to do to the wife when she finds black specks of dye all over the kitchen

QTF!!

I just got done dying a bunch of parts black and red. I just used boiling water and put it in a couple of plastic shoe boxes and let the parts sit for 24 hrs and they came out great. Even with three large towels and being careful with it on the kitchen counter my wife still manged to find black and red splotches two three feet away on the walls and fridge, needless to say she was not a happy camper with me. Ooopssss.
Lynn

What happens is the water and dye steam off and wherever it settles your going to get a little dot of dye

I've heard about some people placing the parts to be dyed in a plastic bucket, adding near-boiling water, mixing in powdered or liquid dye, and monitoring until the desired depth of color is achieved. I imagine that it takes a little longer for the dye to penetrate, but the risk of mess is much less (no actively boiling water with dye).

and now i wish i bought the pan with the lid from GoodWill.... i thought i was doing good with a $.99 pan....

So do i let it simmer or actually boil for a bit.

HI!... I do the following :

- Boil water in stainless steel pot
- once water boils, turn down the the heat to simmer
- Pour in the RIT dye and stir well
- drop parts in and occasionally stir
- keep in pot for about a hour
- remove parts and wash under warm water from tap
- let dry
- use

I'll add my observations, when I dyed a set of white nylon Turbo Optima wheels. It's generally recommended to leave your parts in the dye until you reach the depth of color you're looking for; a few minutes for light blue or 20 minutes for dark blue, for example. I was looking to get a fairly light, pastel blue color. However, I found that the dye didn't quite "sink in" after only a few minutes. Rather, it was somewhat splotchy. It needed a certain minimum amount of time for the wheels to get a consistent blue dye. By the time that minimum time expired, the wheels were quite a bit darker than I wanted.

Other than that, I followed H.P Freak's method, which pretty much sums up what I read over on RIT Dye's website.

make sure you have all thread lock or glue off parts, it will not dye that.. found that out tonight dying old buggy parts that where a funny color..

Thanks for the tips been thinking bout doing this.

So, uh, ProLine wheels don't dye so well, do they?

I now have freshly re-dyed black pieces and some pretty dark purplish-blue wheels....

What similar wheels dye better? (these are just wide whites for B4 axles).

I mean, they look nice, but not exactly the effect I was going for

I just dyed a batch of old parts black and they came out with a blueish tint. I boiled the water then dumped the boiling water and dye into a pan with the parts and let sit a while. This is the way I had done it in the past. The dye didn't take that well maybe because the parts are older and more brittle?

Going to try another batch tomorrow and will let this one simmer on the stove and hope the warmer water makes the dye cover better. Or any other suggestions?

Ok second try came out much better. Difference was on the 2nd one I kept the water simmering instead of cooling. Not sure if it mattered but the first batch was RIT liquid dye, the second was powerded.

If I remember back in the day I think Parma sold little packages of fluorescent colors. They were in little plastic containers.

actually i believe it was paragon and not parma.