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Anyone Dyed Aero Zytecs from off-white to black ? PLEASE HELP !

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othomas2:
Mine have been through the Dying process twice now and are currently a barber jacket greeny/brown. Not good.



Has anyone dyed zytecs before ? Had any probs ?

If anyone has tried white to black please help !!!!! Any other advice would be great.

I used 2 1/2 tins of ebony black per wheel. boiling water from the kettle, and just over your regular amount of salt.

cheers
owen

kdw712:
did you use cold water dye instead of multipurpose ???

i did first time i tried results were like yours rather washy

othomas2:
It's definately multi-purpose dye I bought.

Did you go from white to black ?

I have no idea what's gone wrong here.

thanks.  :-\

kdw712:
yeah alans off white set to black
loads of boiling hot water, dye and of course salt
(cue the picture .....)

first effort white to red


oops

then got serious and the right dye


and second set came out like

othomas2:
Thanks for that !!!

I need me an oil can !!!!  :LolLolLolLol:

- They look great.

How many tins per wheel did you use ?

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