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i picked up a beater Rc10 and the parts came all purple and blue the dye job is real bad right now
I am thinking of using this rit dye my first time its a liquid , when doing these parts is there any way to do it so the parts so they are even colored . I was going to boil kettle water like 2 litres and dump all the plastic parts in a metal pot with the whole bottle of black dye for the like 10 mins. Is this a good idea?
thanks Brandon

i have a pot that i use just for dying parts. i boil the water in that, and when it starts boiling i turn the heat off, add the dye, stir it around a bit, then put the parts in. i let them in until the water cools off, stirring the parts around in the pot during that time. then, when they're done, i run it through a strainer, to catch all the real small parts, and rinse them off.

this is how i do it. seems to work well.

i'm sure others have different ways, if ya do, post up. always good to hear/see how others to things.

oh ya. only use as much water as you need to submerge the parts. the more water you use, the weaker the dye will be. if the parts don't seem to be taking the dye very good, you could turn the heat back on a bit.

colored dyeing is a little more complicated, but for black just make sure you use enough dye and have the parts in there long enough.

i do it like scr8p pretty much. be slow and carefull 'cause the dye will make a mess and splatter everywhere if you dont, and it'l stain some countertops... you gotta be REAL gentle putting your parts in the water to prevent splashing and making a mess.

you gotta rinse the parts pretty well too.

Surely the real question is, how do you go about achieving the same dye job as it has now, on purpose? You've got like three or four colours going on, multiple fades, undyed and dyed patches on the same part, incredible. I think it looks pretty good as a tie-dye affect. Lol.

Oh, so I am not completely unhelpful, for dying colours ask shodog what to do as he gave me some tips on dying parts which seemed to work quite well so far (I have only experimented and not dyed real parts yet).

http://tamiyaclub.com/CS/forums/thread/188711.aspx

Sorry its a tamiyaclub link, but I thought it might save shodog writing it again.

thanks i will be cleaning the parts today and post later how it turns out.

with the rarity of the white parts, I would buy some new rear black a-arms to match the lot and keep those white ones for an other project, but that's just my opinion

i tried to dye a set of old rims for a project i'm working on, left them in for 2 hours and they only came out like this.overall they look pretty good considering

I think the heat element is a critical part of the dyeing job. as for your rims, some types of plastc and nylon just won't take a dye very well.

i used kettle boiling water, i think these are a hard coated plastic that does not let the dye to sink in.