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Sink

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Re: Cream pinkish Acorn wheels.
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2012, 03:09 PM »
I had a pair that I bleached, they came up a bit brighter, but no where near white, they are naturally cream, so you'll never get them white  :daumenhoch:
That said they looked the part on my lads old school frame


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Re: Cream pinkish Acorn wheels.
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2012, 04:47 PM »
Cheers Sink, that's interesting.

Did they actully do both white and cream wheels bitd  then or were they all cream?

theRuler

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Re: Cream pinkish Acorn wheels.
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2012, 05:49 PM »
Only the tuffs were whitey white.

The acorns and zytecs were a creamy colour (in comparison)

Bleach may help, but I'd go for dye and see what happens.

rwleigh

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Re: Cream pinkish Acorn wheels.
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2012, 06:26 PM »
So out of curiosity if you dye them how deep does it get into the plastic, what happens with brake wear over time?

Say i dyed a set green would i end up having green wheels with a cream rim after some use?

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Re: Cream pinkish Acorn wheels.
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2012, 07:17 PM »




The Devil is away on business, I'm having to step in for him - How can I make your day Hell !!!

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Re: Cream pinkish Acorn wheels.
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2012, 07:50 PM »
So BENDYCAT, are trying to tell me that you dyed cream acorn magnums black, blue, red and yellow?

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Re: Cream pinkish Acorn wheels.
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2012, 10:11 PM »
 :angel: yup - I got the sets you see on the lawn - they were dirty and had turned cream - at this point i think that the material used to create them turns from a white to a cream over the years

I bleached some and then learned to dye them with dylon dye - polished the hubs on the black set

sold a load and only have a few sets left


as for how deep the colour of the dye goes ? it's less than a milimeter - as it only covers the mags and doesn't penatrate that deep - so brake rub will show after a white if the colour under it is different

how you dye them is a big part of it  ;)

cheers B  :coolsmiley:
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