Anyone Dyed Aero Zytecs from off-white to black ? PLEASE HELP !

[othomas2]

Mine have been through the Dying process twice now and are currently a barber jacket greeny/brown. Not good.



Has anyone dyed zytecs before ? Had any probs ?

If anyone has tried white to black please help !!!!! Any other advice would be great.

I used 2 1/2 tins of ebony black per wheel. boiling water from the kettle, and just over your regular amount of salt.

cheers
owen

[kdw712]

did you use cold water dye instead of multipurpose

i did first time i tried results were like yours rather washy

[othomas2]

It's definately multi-purpose dye I bought.

Did you go from white to black ?

I have no idea what's gone wrong here.

thanks. 

[kdw712]

yeah alans off white set to black
loads of boiling hot water, dye and of course salt
(cue the picture .....)

first effort white to red


oops

then got serious and the right dye


and second set came out like

[othomas2]

Thanks for that !!!

I need me an oil can !!!! 

- They look great.

How many tins per wheel did you use ?

[kdw712]

i think it was 4 tins per wheel
but all went in same pot

i shoved a small BBQ underneath it too to hepl keep heat going longer

[theRuler]

[kdw712]

i wondered when that would pop up 

[othomas2]

... so do you guys advise using tons of salt then ?

I've heard else where to stick to near enough the  30 g per tin.

[Rombloke]

at least 750 g per wheel.....and at 29p for a 750 g tub is it worth the worry....the more the merrier...pile it on, i had excellent results recently dying a faded blue tuff bac to nos looking blue...

http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=8864.0

Dave

[sawzall]

you never disappoint mr ruler 

[othomas2]

Is the salt thing proven, cause I dyed once with the recommended amount and then the second time chucked sh-loads in, and didn't notice any change. 

[Rombloke]

like i say at 58p for 1.5 kg who cares if its proven....rather have too much than not enough

good luck fella

Dave

[ORB]

i dont have any pics, but i did some yellw tuffs, they were faded to fook, i used 150g of salt and two tubs per wheel, they came out shite

then i put 2 tubs in and 1500kg of salt and they worked VERY well.

[Rombloke]

1500kg's.....fookin hell

what did that cost ya...
?

Dave

[ORB]

12ty pound pence