Dyeing plastics

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Anyone mess with this? Was asked how to color plastic s and we recently dyed a gear set, I thought to try on plastic, seems like might could make cool colors
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queen of spodes 8/17/2021 10:07am
8/17/2021 10:07am
Wonder how well brighter more vivid colors look on white plastic.
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lapper 8/17/2021 1:01pm
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We used to dye plastic parts on R/C race cars all the time. Never had any fading or other issues
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queen of spodes 8/17/2021 3:30pm
8/17/2021 3:30pm
lapper wrote:
We used to dye plastic parts on R/C race cars all the time. Never had any fading or other issues
Did anyone dye the plastic bits like pink or royal purple? If so and it looked good... i need new plastic for the KX250 anyway!
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JMX82 8/17/2021 10:54pm
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queen of spodes wrote:
Did anyone dye the plastic bits like pink or royal purple? If so and it looked good... i need new plastic for the KX250 anyway!
1995-96 TM's had pink KX fenders from the factory.

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wrc777 8/18/2021 5:51am
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lapper wrote:
We used to dye plastic parts on R/C race cars all the time. Never had any fading or other issues
RC cars use mostly nylon. Nylon takes dye very well because it absorbs water. MX plastics are not nylon so I don't know how well they take dye. I think they are poly propylene. It is water proof so I don't know if it will take dye.
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Wandell 8/18/2021 6:42am
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I've seen a lot of guys talk about it on Thumpertalk. Mainly Yamaha owners dyeing blue YZ fuel tanks black. A lot of gun enthusiast use it too. The consensus is that it works when dyeing lighter colors to a darker color but not really the other way around. It also sometimes takes repeating the process to get good results.
queen of spodes 8/18/2021 10:33am
8/18/2021 10:33am
JMX82 wrote:
1995-96 TM's had pink KX fenders from the factory. [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/users/36070/setup_checks/69793/photos/22059/s1600_CIMG1039.jpg?1539826279[/img]
1995-96 TM's had pink KX fenders from the factory.

Nobody makes injected mold pink plastic for a 2007 KX125/250 tho. I can get white. But idk how well pink dye would take to white plastic if at all. Would it look as brilliant/bright as that TM plastic....

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