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Originally Posted by dghii
Looks great! first I've heard of anyone using dye. Very nice.
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Thanks. I had to mix in a little acetone to make it infuse into to the plastic better. The tricky part is to NOT use too much acetone that it will melt your plastic's texture. I got the idea to use acetone from this site:
https://frontstreet.media/2016/07/13/tech-plastic-dyeing-the-permanent-solution-and-alternative-to-painting/
Rit DyeMore and Acetone was the trick. I didn't boil it, and I didn't add water. I just added a few drops of acetone at a time to the bottle of dye until I got the result I wanted. I used paper towels to apply the dye very liberally, then let the wet pieces dry in the sun for about 1/2 hour. IIRC, when they dried they looked like they had a weird matte finish. I washed them off with water to get rid of the dried powdery residue, and once they dried they came out like you see in the pic.
I think I ended up adding a total of 15 drops of acetone to the bottle of dye before the dye took.