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Title: dying seat with Dylon?
Post by: ammacopij72 on February 15, 2022, 01:30 PM

Have managed to source some Dylon madonna blue powder tins and am going to try dying a og 80s yellow viscount mx to blue. found this (https://bmxmuseum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=7254237...) on the museum but its not clear if you have to bring the water back to the boil after adding the dye? Any thoughts or advice appreciated..

Neil

Title: Re: dying seat with Dylon?
Post by: hotdog on February 15, 2022, 02:43 PM

Rit dye has always worked for me with Kashi and Elina saddles. Dyed them in minutes. Just keep the pan gently bubbling away with the lid on otherwise the dye gets everywhere. The dye doesn't effect the side logos either. The biggest problem was finding a pan big enough to hang the seats into. The chinese supermarket came up trumps but they aren't cheap.

Title: Re: dying seat with Dylon?
Post by: ammacopij72 on February 16, 2022, 08:51 AM

Cheers dude, ever have any issues with yellow to blue? have a had a few comments that i'll end up with green?

Title: Re: dying seat with Dylon?
Post by: hotdog on February 16, 2022, 09:37 AM

I've done yellow to black and red to black. Only ever done yellow to blue with Oakley grips.

Title: Re: dying seat with Dylon?
Post by: Swivel on February 16, 2022, 02:44 PM

Quote from: hotdog on February 16, 2022, 09:37 AM

I've done yellow to black and red to black. Only ever done yellow to blue with Oakley grips.

Cool, I done the same also, dyed Yellow B2's to Blue no problem.

Title: Re: dying seat with Dylon?
Post by: bobafett on February 28, 2022, 11:25 PM

The key thing with the seat will be if it is Nylon. If it's not you may struggle to get the dye to take at all or end up with some hybrid wierd colour.

Kashis, Elinas, Shotguns have all been done very successfully and to be honest the process will usually even work with cold water but go for the hot pot as it will help and just stick it on a camping stove keeping it warming over throughout the process. There's guides on here if you look in the tech and resto stickies.

As for the pan to stick it in I got the 15.2L one of these : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/360970532712 (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/360970532712)

And I just got a cheap Amazon camping stove like this : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trespass-Gastro-Camping-Temperature-Ignition/dp/B00A162ELQ (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trespass-Gastro-Camping-Temperature-Ignition/dp/B00A162ELQ)

Good luck and have fun  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: dying seat with Dylon?
Post by: Midschoolfool on March 01, 2022, 11:17 AM

Rit do a dye for nylon. It's called Rit Synthetic.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rit-Dye-Synthetic-7oz-Graphite-Multicoloured/dp/B00U2IXMIW/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=rit+nylon+dye&qid=1646133422&sprefix=rit+dye+nyl%2Caps%2C65&sr=8-6