Author Topic: Have I shagged my Kashi? (Read 998 times)

punkdSICO · « **on:** July 30, 2011, 11:39 AM »

Ooops.. My Kashi restore is not going too well:

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

BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN · « **Reply #1 on:** July 30, 2011, 11:45 AM »

what dye you use

punkdSICO · « **Reply #2 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

Bob_Acid · « **Reply #3 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?

motomagII · « **Reply #4 on:** July 30, 2011, 11:53 AM »

rit dye instead of dylon and tad darker colour at a guess

GTnumber1 · « **Reply #5 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

sid1972 · « **Reply #6 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.

BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN · « **Reply #7 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

Retrodan72 · « **Reply #8 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??