No probs Reggie - your description is a good starting point..... I can understand why the mix is so light... I was following a guide published in RC Car Action & used probably half of what they recomended in terms of the quantity of dye powder for those wheels shown in my photo & yet the colouring was almost instant! As you say 30sec was long enough but my wheels were probably in for about a minuteCharlie don't surf wrote:I am sorry Dan and R-N0, I had run like 15-20 different ratio's that day to "dial in" the color, and had all the test rims and parts in a ziploc bag with that ratio and dye time written on the parts- but I can only find the "wrong" parts bag, not the correct one I remember it was something close to ( Imperial ) 2 quarts water, 1/8 tsp of fushia and a pinch of the tangerine. Very very light color to the dye bath was the key as all the other amounts of dye in the water produced a very very very bold color on the rims. And it was a very quick soak at light boil, like 30 sec- any more and they 8 spokes came out too dark- I am still looking for the bag with the "right" test parts though!R-NO wrote: Reggie had found a pretty close color match using a combination of Rit Fushia and Tangerine Orange but never posted the exact ratio in the rctech forum
If you do find the bag with the best ratio mix parts in please let us know!