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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: punkdSICO on July 30, 2011, 11:39 AM

Title: Have I shagged my Kashi?
Post by: punkdSICO on July 30, 2011, 11:39 AM: Ooops.. My Kashi restore is not going too well:

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6028/5989758035_08f155e8f3_z.jpg)

Rubbed out all the scratches with some 180 paper and it actually looks pretty good apart from the powdery/patchy appearance. Despite this, I dyed it anyway hoping it would still come good but, it looks pretty much the same as before dying..

Any tips would be very appreciated..

thanks,

Paul
Title: Re: Have I shagged my Kashi?
Post by: BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN on July 30, 2011, 11:45 AM: what dye you use ???
Title: Re: Have I shagged my Kashi?
Post by: punkdSICO on July 30, 2011, 11:49 AM: Quote from: BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN on July 30, 2011, 11:45 AM
what dye you use ???
Dylon Ocean Blue. I added about 400g of salt, in boiling water (on a plastic bowl so could not maintain the heat). Left it for a good 1.5+ hours.

Ta,

Paul
Title: Re: Have I shagged my Kashi?
Post by: Bob_Acid on July 30, 2011, 11:49 AM: It looks like the dye you've used is of a lower pigment than the original seat colour. Did it change colour at all?
Title: Re: Have I shagged my Kashi?
Post by: motomagII on July 30, 2011, 11:53 AM: rit dye instead of dylon and tad darker colour at a guess
Title: Re: Have I shagged my Kashi?
Post by: GTnumber1 on July 30, 2011, 12:09 PM: you need to get rid of all those coarse 180 marks, cos what ever colour you dye it the marks will come thru :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Have I shagged my Kashi?
Post by: sid1972 on July 30, 2011, 12:17 PM: same as the above - fine grades etc down to like a 1200/1800.. then rit with loads of salt..

you can polish plastic to with a nice cutting compound but try this after the dye, You can pull that back because I have done worse. ;)
Title: Re: Have I shagged my Kashi?
Post by: BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN on July 30, 2011, 01:30 PM: right what has happend here is the wrong dylon - i'm guessing it was a cold dye and not a MP (multi-purpose) and no fixer !

only MP dylon dyes will dye it due to the nylon in it

madonna blue will work

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/tt183/ELEVENTEENBENDYCAT/dylon%20dyes%20here/SNC18504.jpg)
Title: Re: Have I shagged my Kashi?
Post by: Retrodan72 on July 30, 2011, 03:07 PM: I have 2xMadonna blues that i've had for a while that I was gonna use on some Tuffs, if you pm me your addy I can send them to you on Monday or bring them to MK next week??