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dancetothedrummersbeat:
Hi all. I'm sure this has been covered before, but I couldn't find the exact answer in the sticky section. I've got some white zeds that i'm about to dye mid blue. Although the small tins of dylon dye have been discontinued and you now have to buy a 500g tin for about £50, there are a few sellers with some small tins still in stock. a few questions then:

How many small tins will i need to dye a pair zeds?
Or shall i just use rit dye instead? - if so how many packets?

**or if anyone wants to swap a white set of zeds for a dark blue set, please let me know***
NB: They are mike buff zeds, but the person who i got them off sanded the sides down, so the mike buff stamp is virtually gone.

Retrodan72:
Don't use dylon Andy, use Rit dye, available off eBay.

You will need some salt, a wallpaper steamer, and a big plastic bucket, bigger than 20" in diameter. :daumenhoch:

dancetothedrummersbeat:
Thanks Dan. So Rit will work ok then? I've used it to dye grips before. I'll check out the rit colour catalogue now. Is it about 3/4 packets per set of rims? (adding just enough water to cover them of course).

Retrodan72:

--- Quote from: dancetothedrummersbeat on January 08, 2013, 09:10 PM ---Thanks Dan. So Rit will work ok then? I've used it to dye grips before. I'll check out the rit colour catalogue now. Is it about 3/4 packets per set of rims? (adding just enough water to cover them of course).

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I used 2 packs of rit and 2 tubs of salt to do 2 yellow hoops black.

I put the salt and rit in first, then the hoops. Then I coveted them with multiple kettle fills of boiling water. Use a stick or bamboo cane to agitate the powders thoroughly, then whack the end of the steamer in to maintain the working temp for the solution. Remember to keep stirring the solution about every 15 mins or so, and use the stick to turn the hoops over to get an even colouring.

This is purely based on yellow to black.

In your case, I would start by using 1 pack of dye to achieve your desired blue, or possibly take them out of the dye when the times right and they have reached the desired shade.

I took 3 hours doing my black ones.

 :daumenhoch:

dancetothedrummersbeat:
fantastic, thanks for the advice  :)

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