Had a go at Dyeing Tuffs today!

[crightonk]

My 1st attempt at dyeing!

Before!


During!


And After! Happy with the results :cool:

[meticulous]

they look brand new...  well done

[monkian]

They look sweet
So what's the best way to prep a Tuff before dyeing?

[crightonk]

I used cif and a green scotchbrite pad from work, took an age but well worth it

[brettypeeps]

They look like the colour they left the factory all them years ago.  Awesome work

[NORTY40]

Nice bit of resto work there mate 

[xGoose]

Great job, Ive got a have a go at that soon, hope they turn out as good!

[hunterdubber]

Nice work 

It is important to make sure they are throughly clean before you start ,
 and with Alloy hubbed ones , I think a few people smear a bit of vaseline over the face of the hub to protect it 

[ozone]

  I think a few people smear a bit of vaseline over the face of the hub to protect it 

I'm sure that's just for bleaching rims (nowt better than a bleached rim  ) - the bleach corrodes the alloy so needs covering in some way but I don't think dye harms the alloy and grease/lube would just melt away as soon as the rims touched the hot water...

Is that RIT dye?  Someone on here dyed a set of Tuffs with Dylon and they came out navy blue. 

Nice job BTW

[pickle]

nice job!!  yeah did you use Rit?  they did my Z's really well 

[crightonk]

I used 2 tubs of madonna blue dylon, was going to use 3 but as soon as the dye was in the water it went really dark so didnt put the 3rd tin in, I kept stirring the dye and turning the wheels over and changing them from top to bottom in the bucket every 15-20 mins or so over a period of 4 hours.

[oldtired]

asked this before so i'll ask it while the topic i current does the dye penetrate into the wheel? so you dont get brake rub showing, fancied some red tuffs for a rider and was going to do a new white set, those look bob on  doo like blue tuffs 

[crightonk]

Not sure how deep it penetrates but as there were blue originally these will be fine for a rider, white ones will dye red no prob's but I think the rims will soon go pink/white with brake wear.

[oldtired]

cool worth a bash then    although i'm going to need about £10000000  for red tuff pads