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Z Rims **now finished** for my adidas build.
dancetothedrummersbeat:
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--- Quote from: dp and Chopper Dude on March 14, 2013, 12:43 PM ---Looking great :daumenhoch: What type and colour dye did you use?
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Royal Blue Rit. Got them off ebay, and used 5 packets to do these 2 rims. Took about 3 hours in total. I previously tried it using Dylon madonna blue dye, but it was a failure.
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I'm going to have a go at dying a set of acorns baby blue and I was going to use dylon madonna blue. Have you got any pictures of how it went?
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Hi, no I don't. I think the problem was that the small pots of dylon seem to contain less dye that a packet of rit, hence the concentration will be lower using dylon. I'm sure that dylon WILL work, but you'd have to buy a fair few pots of it. Madonna blue is the colour you want though. Personally I wouldn't use dylon again, plus it's becomming increasingly difficult to find the small pots as I think they have been discontinued. You can now only buy multi purpose dylon in large containers costing about £50. I would only use rit in future. You could use royal bue rit, just keep a close eye on how long you leave them in for so the shade dosn't go too dark. Or you could use aquamarine, but i don't know if that would be too light. Bear in mind that any colour will appear darker by a shade or two when the mags are wet. The colour will appear lighter once they have dried. Here's the rit colour chart
http://www.ritdye.com/store/
I buy my rit dye on ebay.
dancetothedrummersbeat:
--- Quote from: torker dude180 on March 15, 2013, 08:38 AM ---the look sweet those and, its a nice colour scheme, i have it on my robo. :smitten: who biult them up for ya fela???
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Have tried a few times to lace my own, but with varying results. Didn't want to mess these up, especially as the spokes & nipples came from Taiwan, so I took them to a local bike shop. They charged £40 to lace & true them, but is was worth it as they did a great job
Retrodan72:
--- Quote from: dancetothedrummersbeat on March 15, 2013, 08:09 PM ---
--- Quote from: torker dude180 on March 15, 2013, 08:38 AM ---the look sweet those and, its a nice colour scheme, i have it on my robo. :smitten: who biult them up for ya fela???
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Have tried a few times to lace my own, but with varying results. Didn't want to mess these up, especially as the spokes & nipples came from Taiwan, so I took them to a local bike shop. They charged £40 to lace & true them, but is was worth it as they did a great job
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That's about the going rate a LBS will charge for wheel building. :daumenhoch:
Badbaldie:
look awsum them Andy :daumenhoch:
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