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Title: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: PHIPPSIO on August 07, 2008, 05:05 PM

I am stumped on this. I have a yella seat i want to be blue and im not confident madonna blue is gonna do it. Im thinking if i use green dye it may go blue? whatdya think guys?

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: Steve P on August 07, 2008, 05:07 PM

What seat is it Dom  :)

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: Swivel on August 07, 2008, 05:07 PM

Dom I reckon it could go green also mate  ;)

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: 2020mad on August 07, 2008, 05:15 PM

could you not try bleaching it for a few days first?

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: 2020mad on August 07, 2008, 05:50 PM

Before and after pics please. share the success.         POSITIVE THINKING  :angel:

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: PHIPPSIO on August 07, 2008, 05:54 PM

Its the much revered cycle pro shotgun 1

Im $hitting myself im gonna feck it up. Oh well, there always black i suppose  :LolLolLolLol:

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: jT Racing on August 07, 2008, 06:03 PM

if you put green dye on it it will turn green onle. yellow+ blue =green. yellow + green = green. i'm not sure if the yellow will influence the blue dye and make it green, but i'm pretty sure i know what green dye is gonna do.

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: PHIPPSIO on August 07, 2008, 06:21 PM

What do you think guys, madonna blue

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/dd272/DOMPHIPPSIO/DSCN1867.jpg)

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: jT Racing on August 07, 2008, 06:24 PM

it's a nice seat to start fooking around with. i suppose you can allways go black if all else fails. go on, be brave >:D

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: PHIPPSIO on August 07, 2008, 06:25 PM

yeah agreed JT, I could use it in black so its worth a go. Ill post results

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: munners on August 07, 2008, 06:27 PM

Rare as fook them seats for Fiola builds.

Dont do it! :LolLolLolLol:

I know yellow Kashi's are the hardest to dye. ;)

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: Steve P on August 07, 2008, 06:41 PM

It can only go one of two ways Dom ... either blue or fooked  :LolLolLolLol:

The Shotgun take the dye very nicely ... have you got a decent size pan to keep things simmering over the gas  ;)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/a217/steve167690/Shotgun%20II%20Seat%20Dye/During1.jpg)

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: PHIPPSIO on August 07, 2008, 06:54 PM

I dont have a pan yet Steve, but im getting one tommorow. As Gordon Ramsey would say " if its blue its cooked, if its green its fooked" .....something like that  :LolLolLolLol:

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: Rombloke on August 07, 2008, 09:14 PM

i fancy that will take a dye dom.

like you say....if it goes pete tong....then it goes black

Dave

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: adeshere on August 07, 2008, 09:25 PM

Not sure i would try it

I tried to dye a white seat red, and the best i could get was a nice rich orange !!

Tried many times even on the cooker .. still orange

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: sawzall on August 07, 2008, 09:26 PM

dom,i have done a yellow seat with blue and it came out ok,it was a bit darker but looked ok ;)

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: PHIPPSIO on August 08, 2008, 02:00 PM

Thanks fella's . I have dyed the little blighter now and its done exactly what Phil said, gone blue but a darker shade. Not too bad, i may offer it up to the bike in question and see how it looks .......then its going black if it looks shite

Before
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/dd272/DOMPHIPPSIO/DSCN1867.jpg)
3 madonnas later
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/dd272/DOMPHIPPSIO/DSCN1868.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/dd272/DOMPHIPPSIO/DSCN1869.jpg)
Yeah ok, black it is  :LolLolLolLol:

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: Steve P on August 08, 2008, 03:14 PM

That turned out rather nice Dom  :coolsmiley:  can I look after it  :)

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: PHIPPSIO on August 08, 2008, 03:30 PM

yeah she's not bad Steve, a little dark but the logo's survived almost untouched. I noticed that it was slow going until the water started boiling and then it went like a rocket. I did my blue zeds as well and they came up a treat too  :)  im happy........im a happy boy  :)

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: munners on August 08, 2008, 03:35 PM

Where did you get a pot from mate and how much?

Cheers Nick ;)

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: poolysheriff on August 08, 2008, 03:39 PM

How easy is it to dye a blue Kashi seat bluer  :-\

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i99/poolysheriff/002-2.jpg)

Needs to be dark like tuff 2 colour blue

sorry Dom

(thread jacker)  :-[

Gary..

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: PHIPPSIO on August 08, 2008, 03:44 PM

There you go Nick, £12.98 from b and q, fits nicely on the hob and submerges the seat completetly

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/dd272/DOMPHIPPSIO/DSCN1870.jpg)

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: munners on August 08, 2008, 03:46 PM

Very clever!

How the hell did you get the zeds in it? :LolLolLolLol:

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: PHIPPSIO on August 08, 2008, 03:53 PM

Quote from: munners on August 08, 2008, 03:46 PM

Very clever!

How the hell did you get the zeds in it? :LolLolLolLol:

It was pretty tight (as the vicar said to the nun)   :LolLolLolLol:

I put them in a big placcy bucket from Homebase and poured the used blue water over them as they only needed a little bit of attention and no boiling up

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: Steve P on August 08, 2008, 04:02 PM

Quote from: poolysheriff on August 08, 2008, 03:39 PM

How easy is it to dye a blue Kashi seat bluer

Needs to be dark like tuff 2 colour blue

Dylon should work wonders on that seat Gary ... this is the colour you're likely to get using Madonna Blue  :daumenhoch:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/a217/steve167690/Wheels/ZRim_After1.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/a217/steve167690/Wheels/ZRim_Built3.jpg)

Steve

Title: Re: Dying a yellow seat blue...green dye?
Post by: poolysheriff on August 08, 2008, 04:05 PM

Steve thats what i,m aiming for  ;)

Cheers

Gary..