So looking I'm seeing 3 brands of popular dyes for synthetic...
RIT Dyemore
Dylon Multipurpose
Jacquard iDye
Anyone have recent experience? I understand RIT's regular dyes changed formula some years back and don't work nearly as well.
BONUS if...
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Rit standard dyes I haven't had any luck with lately. It used to be my go to. The Dyemore is fabulous on nylon. I was shocked how well and how quickly my fiberglass towers took also. In the past, even the good old stuff took forever. The Dyemore...
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
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if you could find the online copy of rcca january 1989, read up on the article to dye or not to dye . great write up on how to dye parts. i've been using it ever since i bought the magazine.
you could get the whole year of rcca 1989 from doug at:
Guys, i won 2 rc10l cars on the bay.........my narrow car is a graphite chassis..my wide 10L has a fiberglass chassis.....i want the fiberglass chassis to be black also........i dyed the t-plate and other small glass parts in my crock-pot black in...
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i put a t cup of salt in a pan with the dye
lay some table knifes in the bottom to keep the parts of the direct heat .then rolling boil for about ten mins then simmer for an hour
then serve up with a sprig of parsley and some fresh black...
I got my rpm worlds parts in yesterday and i had today off work so i decided to do aome wet sanding on the chassis and towers... After sanding the front tower it seems as though i have sanded off the black like it was dyed? Is this possable and if...
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If you have to sand the edges or something do it ahead of time, because you can expose the natural color if the dye doesn't penetrate very deep. Obviously it wasn't a problem because the screw head covered, but I've had this happen when I...
Hi guys - no idea if this has been asked before, but what kind of experiments have you done trying to make newer black parts look white, and with what success?
Thanks!
Paul
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I guess the question i have is what will these parts be used for? Shelf queen or runner?
If it's going to be a shelf queen, you can prime the parts with some KILZ type of primer. It goes on really thin. Then, you can spray it with some white.
I just tried to dye a buch of parts and ended up with a very bad result. I have doe this before many times with success but this dye brand seems not to work at all. Just ended up with brownish parts instead of pure black. In the instruction...
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^It's a LOT longer than for nylon. Just leave them in until they are done. The longer you leave them the darker they get. Try an hour or so, it shouldn't do them any harm at all so don't worry.
Guys, i won an old unbuilt 2WD RC500 on ebay. The guy that owned it previously dyed all the nylon parts red. I want to dye them black as the red is inconsistient. Any tips on dying nylon parts? I thought i read somewhere before that dying the nylon...
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You should have no problem dying them black. I like RIT dye which can be bought at most supermarkets.
I have also heard that boiling the parts relieves the stress of the molding process but I don't have any data to back that up.
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