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Title: Dying These - Anyone Tried?
Post by: Retrodan72 on May 16, 2015, 08:58 AM

I was lucky enough to get a set of these grips, kindly sent by Lee, cheers dude.

I'm thinking that for my Silver Streak build, the outer sleeves may be suited to bring light grey, so was thinking about dying them.

Has anyone tried it, and if so, had success?

Title: Re: Dying These - Anyone Tried?
Post by: brettypeeps on May 16, 2015, 02:47 PM

I don't think they will dye as there is not enough Nylon in the rubber but might be worth a try

Title: Re: Dying These - Anyone Tried?
Post by: Retrodan72 on May 16, 2015, 04:14 PM

Quote from: brettypeeps on May 16, 2015, 02:47 PM

I don't think they will dye as there is not enough Nylon in the rubber but might be worth a try

I think I'm going to try some sort of car bumper colour restorer Brett.  :-\

Title: Re: Dying These - Anyone Tried?
Post by: dancetothedrummersbeat on May 17, 2015, 12:49 AM

I tried Dan. They came out ok, but had a blueish colour to them. They looked ok in isolation, but were clearly a different shade to og grey ones

Dyed.
(http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af3/dancetothedrummersbeat/MT%20Racing%20BMX/4_zps7fb91eb2.jpg) (http://s988.photobucket.com/user/dancetothedrummersbeat/media/MT%20Racing%20BMX/4_zps7fb91eb2.jpg.html)

Original grey
(http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af3/dancetothedrummersbeat/MT%20Racing%20BMX/P1020569_zpsd2ae930f.jpg) (http://s988.photobucket.com/user/dancetothedrummersbeat/media/MT%20Racing%20BMX/P1020569_zpsd2ae930f.jpg.html)