I tried dying my pmags and polymer buttstock today. They turned out looking really cool. I used dark earth pmags and buttstock. I used orange RIT dye. I wrapped them all in a plastic bags for a cool pattern. Really cool. Will be dying more stuff. This video was really informative. Thanks.
Those are not dust caps. I found out a while back that if you watch closely when you're snapping one on to the mag, it PUSHES the rounds down in the mag and relieves pressure on the feed lips. After I figured that out I use them all the time, especially for long term storage.
Amen! Funny how those gun counter experts went from you have to download your mags for the reliability of feeding and feed lips stress, to a gospel that the MAGPUL cover that relieves stress on the plastic magazines are some how not necessary. Which are more likely to weaken over time, unlike metal, due to the polymer plastic changes in the brittleness from aging. Along with the harm from UV A UV B , etc sunlight exposure also harming them unlike metal mags..... If they did nothing, Magpul wouldn't include them......
Creep! Plastic deformation in a material over time due to many factors. Yeah, no ones gonna just injection mold extra parts to throw away.. well not in the gun biz.
@@gastondraco5906 their primary function is to relieve stress on the feed lips, most commonly used for gen 2 pmags that had a problem with a lot of users reporting cracked feed lips under regular storage, not even long term storage.
@@edward1330773 Had my PMAG's stored fully loaded long term in the back of my car. 3 years at least inside the plate carrier. No covers on them. Other polymer mags failed and spread the feed lips. The Magpul ones were the only that didn't have trouble with rounds popping out, feeding in or out of the magwell. They are good to go in hot weather at least.
These came out nice. This gives me flash backs to my buddy dying fishing rod guides for a custom wrapped black and pink rod he was making me. The old Fuji salt water guides had a glow green color ring in them that you could dye. His Mom had finally had a new vinyl floor installed in the kitchen literally the day before. She had wanted a new floor for years. He splashed a big load of pink dye water from the hot pot onto the brand new floor. That floor had a big pink spot on it for the next 10 years or so. His mom had a neat new floor for ONE DAY. Best to do this type of job outside on a camp stove or burner over dirt.
Good video. In the cooling pot you should have a cup to a cup and a half of vinegar added. The vinegar acts as a color lock to speed up and set the color and prevent color bleeding. You also do this when dying fabrics.
Hi Bob, I watched this video when you first posted it. I just accidentally purchased 10 grey magazines. I'm a black rifle guy, so I came back to watch your video. Thank you. Mark just made a new video, now we need you to get back at it.
I tried this with some other fabric dye and it completely failed to stick to the plastic. I finally got some actual Rit dye and it worked like magic. It's much thicker than what I had used previously and it dyed my pmag a very deep, dark blue, just as I had imagined it should. I wish I could post a picture of it.
This is the best video on dying the sand colored Magpul Pmags using the RIT DyeMore liquid dye. With the popularity of the various grey tone cerakoted ARs I'm hoping you can do another video using the Frost Grey RIT Dye.
Thanks for the idea. I dyed some old magpul FDE mags and stock that I wasn't using. They came out great I was dying them black nothing interesting but now I've put them to use.
Great video and looks great. Always make sure to wash with cold water and dishwashing soap and a scouring pad to remove any excess dye which did not adhere to the mags and to avoid staining your hands or other items. I did these on the AK Sand mags and got a similar finish to bakelite or Russian Red, but had to rise them several times with the method described to remove any excess. Used Scarlet Red and Cherry Red.
Great video. I did this method on sand AK magazines, but still found that if you don't use Vinegar then you have to let them cool down and dry them out, but you still have dye coming off of them. I let them air dry then took a scouring pad and some dish washing soap and scrubbed them down and rinsed them off several time until the excess dye did not come off either on the scouring pad or a paper napkin. I also found that the dye is absorbed fastest on the side closest to the flame so as you mentioned turning it every few minutes does help in the process as well as to check to see the desired results.
VERY NICE, very happy I found this video... So many ideas are popping up in my mind now. It's going to be diy everywhere thanks to this video. My wife's 🤦 going to have you to thank for it...🤣🤣😂
use a strainer basket to keep the parts from getting lost and having to hunt for them. you also get more even color because you can control the time in the dye.
Hey Bob... great inspirational video! So my gun store guy promised me he could get sand colored mags. 2 months later, they arrive... and they're actually brown, or medium coyote tan. Ugh. Plus, I'm in California, so my options to score 30 round "standard" magazines are a bit narrow. I ended up buying a loaf / bread pan from the dollar store for...$1. I boiled some water, let it cool to 190, and poured the water into the loaf pan. Added a splash (about 2 tablespoons?) of royal purple dye. Thought I'd do one and see how it turned out. Deep, deep dark purple, of course! I put the loaf pan carefully on the stove, reheated the dye water, gave it a stir with a plastic spoon, and did all 6 mags. My cooling pan was an aluminum cake pan, also from the dollar store, 2 for a buck. Added about ¼ cup white vinegar. Wish I could score some proper sand colored mags!
Purple is one of my least favorite colors, but when you started pulling those small parts out of the dye they looked good. Really good. I was surprised they got that dark without using more dye. You could just brush the dye on like paint but it would be uneven and look bad. A few drops of dye on a Q-tip would probably cover deep scratches almost instantly. If you try it you might want to mask off the surrounding area with tape so you don't make a big dark spot.
@@williemaykit7940 yes they were, I loved mine. They were top-of-the-line and about as good as you could get back in the day. If I remember correctly, my parents had to pay about $350 for mine back then. It was the best Christmas present ever. Wish I could post a picture on here because I still have the picture of when I got it Christmas morning back in the good old days lol
mag Dump $350 sounds right. I’m not sure you could get one for less. My Christmas bike was a Schwinn Predator bmx racer. I got the other bike used with a few weeks worth of lawn mowing money! There was so many good bike companies back then.
I dyed some Tango Down FDE mag bases to black. First go round with 1/2 boiling water & 1/2 Rit liquid black dye produced pieces looking like OD green. This was after 30 minutes and occasional stirring. Second go round was with the remaining full strength black dye, using a microwave to heat the dye, repeating the cycle several times over nearly two hours. They finally came out black. Conclusion is that the density/hardness of the polymer affects how quickly and deeply the piece takes the full color of the dye. Mag bases can lead a tough life, so I suspect these pieces were relatively hard.
Those Magpul caps helps with storing loaded magazine. My pmags are 100% reliable after 2.5 years of storage with those caps. I guess you dont need them if you dont store with pmags. Great video BTW. I am going to dye some of my polymer mags with red to match my range rifle.
I built a black with red accented AR pistol that I call my 'Black Widow' I dyed my mags RIT flame red and used some black widow spider graphics on them... Looks fantastic! Thanks for the dying idea.
I just did this to a fde handguard. I used a little more water by accident and used six caps of black dye. The guard came out with a matte color. It isn’t perfect but I think it will be fine with the build I am doing. Since I needed black, if I don’t like it, I can always go buy a new one.
I've got a pastel pink Walther p22 I want to do purple. I know disassembling the frame would be best but do ya think I could jus blow out the water and oil it afterwards? Thanks, great video!
I am interested in the 6 month followup. Has the color stayed fast? Rubbed or bled off on your hands in use? How deeply did the dye impregnate? Do scratches show up sand? Inquiring minds want to know!
6 months later and they still look great. It's permanent, no bleeding and no scratches that show up through the dye. I'm sure if you scratched deep enough that the sand would show through but after shooting thousands of rounds there have been no issues.
@@Tecknut75 You can't dye a dark color lighter. You can only go from lighter to darker as it adds more color to what's already there. It doesn't remove any of the existing color, or coat it like paint does. I hope that helps. I don't own any PMags but I have dyed clothes with Rit dye, including tie-dyeing a few T-shirts. I always used the Rit dye powder, which I think is still available and cheaper than the liquid, but it's been several years since I bought any. I used to dye my shirts and jeans, and rinse them, all in the washing machine, then wash the machine out by running a cycle with detergent. Smaller items I dyed in a galvanized steel bucket that could handle the heat of boiling water.
Have you ever tried to match FDE COLOR on the sand mags ? Have not tried dying mags yet. Rit dye told me to use " rit dye and more" suppose to be dye for polymers.they told me chocolate brown was the same as FDE ... did not know if anyone had any luck with it .... great video 😊
Coming from a foodie perspective, a sous vide immersion circulator would work beautifully for this. Of course you would need a dedicated unit that is never used for food, but essentially what it is is a device that is immersed partially in your container of water and has a heating element and impeller to circulate the water and hold it at a constant, uniform temperature. Combine this with some kind of hangers to suspend the parts in the pot, and you have the perfect setup for dyeing polymer parts. No stirring or turning required.
Even better, since the immersion circulator plugs into the wall, you're not taking up half your stove: you can do it in any container large enough to hold the right amount of water - a 5 gallon bucket from the hardware store, an old stainless pot you have no other use for, a Rubbermaid tub - as long as you don't care if it gets stained. Since you're not using it for food, you can get a really basic IC for like $60 and not worry about fancy features like WiFi or built-in recipes -all you need is something that can hold a temperature setting and circulate water.
I used to do this with lacrosse sticks. If you put hot glue on it, you can dye it in multiple colors. I might try this to be able to tell immediately between my 300BLK and 5.56. Draw on them with hot glue and write 300 or 556 etc. Or, you can make your own camouflage pattern!
Royal Purple mags for the King's AR 15....LOL I have a couple 40 rd Magpul mags in "white". Guess I need to find some Rit dye in FDE and OD green. FWIW this would be a good way to mark mags for different ammo types and cals.
Use RIT Dye for clothes, $4 at Walmart. Or use iDye Poly. Heat water to just below boiling. Add color and mix for 2 to 3 minutes. Add Magpul parts. Let sit in the mix for 5 to 10 minutes depending on how dark or what effect you want. Remove part and rinse with cool water to remove excess dye and to cool the part which helps lock in the color. Dry. Reassemble. The old stealth grey, foliage green, and FDE parts also work well. A few tips; Use distilled water. Tap water has too many chemicals which may affect the outcome. Add a little white vinegar for poly parts or materials or add salt for natural materials. (Not needed if you use iDye products.) Don't just poor the dye down the drain. Don't waste, use your dye for jute or dye some UCP camo when your finished dying your parts. Add waterproof masking for hard lines between original color and dye color for designs or camo patterns Or use 3M Scotch blue painters tape as a masking instead. Dye for around 5 to 6 minutes. The blue tape will SLOWLY absorb water. Check part, at around five minutes and take it out as soon as the first pieces of blue tape start coming off. This will give an effect where some areas are original color, some the dye color, and some areas a gradient in between. (Kelly Green Dye on FDE looks like A-Tacks FG or a little Multicam like.) For the effect like in the Magpul pictures of their dyed M3 PMags, get a plastic grocery bag. Put the part inside. Crumble up the bag around the part. Add rubber bands around the whole thing to hold the bag around the part. Three or four on a PMag is good. Poke a FEW holes in the plastic in between the rubber bands to let dye in. Put in dye for 5 to 10 minutes. Take out. Rinse, take off the rubber bands and bag then rinse again. Dry. Reassemble. jacquardproducts.com/idye.html
This is a very good tutorial. Will this work with Translucent plastic? In the future, I am planning on purchasing G1 Transformer weapons in Translucent Plastic. Please let me know. Thank you.
Seems as though you could rit dye them a certain color then stencil on whatever (caliber markings, numbering, initials etc.) and rattle can quickly over it. or maybe you could rit dye 1 color, stencil on, then rit dye a 2nd color. I wonder if that would work.
It's an awesome color turned out, saturated! If it were same easy to colored black PMAG to FDE, for example, it would be great. But there are no miracles in the world... ;)
Interesting video. Iv just finished my first build and been looking at colors, unfortunately cerakote doesn't offer a blue that matches so I think I have to get it anodized. Which iv seen videos but don't trust myself esp on my 1st one lol
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I tried dying my pmags and polymer buttstock today. They turned out looking really cool. I used dark earth pmags and buttstock. I used orange RIT dye. I wrapped them all in a plastic bags for a cool pattern. Really cool. Will be dying more stuff. This video was really informative. Thanks.
Those are not dust caps. I found out a while back that if you watch closely when you're snapping one on to the mag, it PUSHES the rounds down in the mag and relieves pressure on the feed lips. After I figured that out I use them all the time, especially for long term storage.
Amen!
Funny how those gun counter experts went from you have to download your mags for the reliability of feeding and feed lips stress, to a gospel that the MAGPUL cover that relieves stress on the plastic magazines are some how not necessary. Which are more likely to weaken over time, unlike metal, due to the polymer plastic changes in the brittleness from aging. Along with the harm from UV A UV B , etc sunlight exposure also harming them unlike metal mags..... If they did nothing, Magpul wouldn't include them......
Creep! Plastic deformation in a material over time due to many factors. Yeah, no ones gonna just injection mold extra parts to throw away.. well not in the gun biz.
They are most certainly dust covers ....and yes they do also take pressure off the feed lips but are sold from magpul as DUST COVERS
@@gastondraco5906 their primary function is to relieve stress on the feed lips, most commonly used for gen 2 pmags that had a problem with a lot of users reporting cracked feed lips under regular storage, not even long term storage.
@@edward1330773 Had my PMAG's stored fully loaded long term in the back of my car. 3 years at least inside the plate carrier. No covers on them. Other polymer mags failed and spread the feed lips. The Magpul ones were the only that didn't have trouble with rounds popping out, feeding in or out of the magwell. They are good to go in hot weather at least.
These came out nice. This gives me flash backs to my buddy dying fishing rod guides for a custom wrapped black and pink rod he was making me. The old Fuji salt water guides had a glow green color ring in them that you could dye. His Mom had finally had a new vinyl floor installed in the kitchen literally the day before. She had wanted a new floor for years. He splashed a big load of pink dye water from the hot pot onto the brand new floor. That floor had a big pink spot on it for the next 10 years or so. His mom had a neat new floor for ONE DAY. Best to do this type of job outside on a camp stove or burner over dirt.
Good video. In the cooling pot you should have a cup to a cup and a half of vinegar added. The vinegar acts as a color lock to speed up and set the color and prevent color bleeding. You also do this when dying fabrics.
Thanks for the tip
Fire Mountain Outdoors Glad I could help.
Taste the rainbow!
White distilled or apple cider vinegar?
@@mackleverett1977 either works, as it is just the acid working as a mordant. you could probably even use lemon juice
Hi Bob, I watched this video when you first posted it. I just accidentally purchased 10 grey magazines. I'm a black rifle guy, so I came back to watch your video. Thank you.
Mark just made a new video, now we need you to get back at it.
That is freakin' amazing! I never knew you could dye plastic like that.
That purple is very deep and rich!!! Good job man! I had no idea you could do this with the sand mags
OMG OMG OMG!!!!! Those look amazing!!! Huge purple fan here so I may just have to give this a try.
those turned out so well. that purple is a great color.
These color ideas for light colored mags are great!
That turned out really well. That is a really nice color.
I tried this with some other fabric dye and it completely failed to stick to the plastic. I finally got some actual Rit dye and it worked like magic. It's much thicker than what I had used previously and it dyed my pmag a very deep, dark blue, just as I had imagined it should. I wish I could post a picture of it.
This is the best video on dying the sand colored Magpul Pmags using the RIT DyeMore liquid dye. With the popularity of the various grey tone cerakoted ARs I'm hoping you can do another video using the Frost Grey RIT Dye.
It came out so good man, oh my god. It looks unbelievable in the video I can only imagine how good they look in real life👍 amazing work.
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Those came out really good.
Thanks for the idea. I dyed some old magpul FDE mags and stock that I wasn't using. They came out great I was dying them black nothing interesting but now I've put them to use.
Great video and looks great. Always make sure to wash with cold water and dishwashing soap and a scouring pad to remove any excess dye which did not adhere to the mags and to avoid staining your hands or other items. I did these on the AK Sand mags and got a similar finish to bakelite or Russian Red, but had to rise them several times with the method described to remove any excess. Used Scarlet Red and Cherry Red.
Wow! That came out very well. Excellent idea. I will try it on AK mags
Great video! I use to do this back in high school with my lacrosse sticks... Now I have a new purpose for some old skills 😉
Love the way the nagazines turned out thank you for this video.
Great video. I did this method on sand AK magazines, but still found that if you don't use Vinegar then you have to let them cool down and dry them out, but you still have dye coming off of them. I let them air dry then took a scouring pad and some dish washing soap and scrubbed them down and rinsed them off several time until the excess dye did not come off either on the scouring pad or a paper napkin. I also found that the dye is absorbed fastest on the side closest to the flame so as you mentioned turning it every few minutes does help in the process as well as to check to see the desired results.
VERY NICE, very happy I found this video... So many ideas are popping up in my mind now. It's going to be diy everywhere thanks to this video. My wife's 🤦 going to have you to thank for it...🤣🤣😂
Awesome. I bought sand Pmags to dye them purple. Those came out great
Pretty cool trick man. And, with my favorite color too ! NICE !!
use a strainer basket to keep the parts from getting lost and having to hunt for them. you also get more even color because you can control the time in the dye.
First time I've ever watched your videos, good one I liked it and definitely going to subscribed
I like the Purple Rain magazines. Prince would be proud of you.
Hey Bob... great inspirational video!
So my gun store guy promised me he could get sand colored mags. 2 months later, they arrive... and they're actually brown, or medium coyote tan.
Ugh. Plus, I'm in California, so my options to score 30 round "standard" magazines are a bit narrow.
I ended up buying a loaf / bread pan from the dollar store for...$1. I boiled some water, let it cool to 190, and poured the water into the loaf pan. Added a splash (about 2 tablespoons?) of royal purple dye. Thought I'd do one and see how it turned out.
Deep, deep dark purple, of course! I put the loaf pan carefully on the stove, reheated the dye water, gave it a stir with a plastic spoon, and did all 6 mags.
My cooling pan was an aluminum cake pan, also from the dollar store, 2 for a buck. Added about ¼ cup white vinegar.
Wish I could score some proper sand colored mags!
Glad it worked out for you
I never thought of this. Great video!
They came out nice.. never thought of that I don’t know if I’ll do the whole mag but will do the base plate.
Those came out great ... good job bud , thanks for sharing.
EXCELLENT IDEA!!! I SEE SOME CUSTOM MAGS IN MY FUTURE
That's awesome. Think I have some RIT laying around from making micarta. Blood red/ Maroon would be pretty interesting hanging out of a black rifle.
AWESOME!!! Dude i need some red ones for my new build!!! Gonna try this when I get back from the gun show in a couple of weeks, great vid man!!!
Thanks, great video! This worked perfect for us!
Sweet video! I'm going to try this out on transparent lancer mags to see what fun colors I can get!
Purple is one of my least favorite colors, but when you started pulling those small parts out of the dye they looked good. Really good. I was surprised they got that dark without using more dye. You could just brush the dye on like paint but it would be uneven and look bad. A few drops of dye on a Q-tip would probably cover deep scratches almost instantly. If you try it you might want to mask off the surrounding area with tape so you don't make a big dark spot.
Man, that purple reminds me of a GT Pro Performer freestyle bike I had as a kid back in the 80s! Thanks for the video!
I had one too but it was blue with white tires, mags and handlebar grips. I loved that bike!
@@magdump4456 They were excellent freestyle bikes! They don't make them like that anymore!
@@williemaykit7940 yes they were, I loved mine. They were top-of-the-line and about as good as you could get back in the day. If I remember correctly, my parents had to pay about $350 for mine back then. It was the best Christmas present ever. Wish I could post a picture on here because I still have the picture of when I got it Christmas morning back in the good old days lol
mag Dump $350 sounds right. I’m not sure you could get one for less. My Christmas bike was a Schwinn Predator bmx racer. I got the other bike used with a few weeks worth of lawn mowing money! There was so many good bike companies back then.
That turned out Beautiful
my favorite color but I would have gone with the light purple, I'm so excited about this!
They look beautiful
that looks really good
Great idea! Thanks for posting this.
Sweet, good job man, I'm gonna dye my phone case now lol :) very cool :)
I love this. This is the real example of being tacticool.
I dyed some Tango Down FDE mag bases to black. First go round with 1/2 boiling water & 1/2 Rit liquid black dye produced pieces looking like OD green. This was after 30 minutes and occasional stirring. Second go round was with the remaining full strength black dye, using a microwave to heat the dye, repeating the cycle several times over nearly two hours. They finally came out black. Conclusion is that the density/hardness of the polymer affects how quickly and deeply the piece takes the full color of the dye. Mag bases can lead a tough life, so I suspect these pieces were relatively hard.
That's awesome. I'm assuming it would work on the stocks and hand gaurds as well.
Dude that is a great looking rifle chrome n purple hell yea !!!
Great job! Enjoyed it!
Those Magpul caps helps with storing loaded magazine. My pmags are 100% reliable after 2.5 years of storage with those caps. I guess you dont need them if you dont store with pmags. Great video BTW. I am going to dye some of my polymer mags with red to match my range rifle.
Pretty awesome 👍👍
Do some tie-dye ones!
Super good video.
I built a black with red accented AR pistol that I call my 'Black Widow' I dyed my mags RIT flame red and used some black widow spider graphics on them... Looks fantastic! Thanks for the dying idea.
Apocalyptic Nomad how'd you manage to die black parts ?
Meanwhile this guy is making Thanos pmags
Nice video. Thank you. How deep into the polymer does the dye go? Will normal wear expose the original color?
ah man! I seriously want some of these in super dooper lime green!
awesome video dude
Cool idea, Jen from Girls Like Guns Too would love those mags:))
that is pretty cool
Not the color I'd choose, but they turned out very well indeed.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.... even though the color isn't of your choosing.
Thats a pretty cool trick.
Cool way to personalize and or colour code your magazines....
I found the lancer clear purple mags for cheap but those are really cool it's like eggs on Easter
I just did this to a fde handguard. I used a little more water by accident and used six caps of black dye. The guard came out with a matte color. It isn’t perfect but I think it will be fine with the build I am doing. Since I needed black, if I don’t like it, I can always go buy a new one.
Very cool. Might work better than cerakote? I might try to do that with a polymer reciever
I have one o those zombie green lowers from GWACS Armory, the old Calvary Arms design. Just what I need to set it off.
Nice video! Might just do this! Got alot more hexmags than pmags? You think it'll still work?
so if you do this to the polymer 80 gun will it still function properly, great video thanks
Drying station...lol...( a couple paper towels on a stove..)..love it..
Instructions unclear. My wife now looks like an oompa loompa.
I've got a pastel pink Walther p22 I want to do purple. I know disassembling the frame would be best but do ya think I could jus blow out the water and oil it afterwards? Thanks, great video!
Wow!!!
I am interested in the 6 month followup. Has the color stayed fast? Rubbed or bled off on your hands in use? How deeply did the dye impregnate? Do scratches show up sand? Inquiring minds want to know!
6 months later and they still look great. It's permanent, no bleeding and no scratches that show up through the dye. I'm sure if you scratched deep enough that the sand would show through but after shooting thousands of rounds there have been no issues.
Thanks Bob. Myself, and I'm sure a great many others, appreciate the followup information. Now let me see, which colors should I choose...
Fire Mountain Outdoors still running well?
Awesome video brother, will this process work with black magazines? I would love to do mine red? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
@@Tecknut75 You can't dye a dark color lighter. You can only go from lighter to darker as it adds more color to what's already there. It doesn't remove any of the existing color, or coat it like paint does. I hope that helps. I don't own any PMags but I have dyed clothes with Rit dye, including tie-dyeing a few T-shirts. I always used the Rit dye powder, which I think is still available and cheaper than the liquid, but it's been several years since I bought any. I used to dye my shirts and jeans, and rinse them, all in the washing machine, then wash the machine out by running a cycle with detergent. Smaller items I dyed in a galvanized steel bucket that could handle the heat of boiling water.
Have you ever tried to match FDE COLOR on the sand mags ? Have not tried dying mags yet. Rit dye told me to use " rit dye and more" suppose to be dye for polymers.they told me chocolate brown was the same as FDE ... did not know if anyone had any luck with it .... great video 😊
Those mags look great. Have you, or anyone else, tried dying the black magazines?
I cooked pancakes on my channel once but this cooking is more my style! :)
what type of rit dye did you use? fabric, or for acrylics?
Coming from a foodie perspective, a sous vide immersion circulator would work beautifully for this. Of course you would need a dedicated unit that is never used for food, but essentially what it is is a device that is immersed partially in your container of water and has a heating element and impeller to circulate the water and hold it at a constant, uniform temperature.
Combine this with some kind of hangers to suspend the parts in the pot, and you have the perfect setup for dyeing polymer parts. No stirring or turning required.
Even better, since the immersion circulator plugs into the wall, you're not taking up half your stove: you can do it in any container large enough to hold the right amount of water - a 5 gallon bucket from the hardware store, an old stainless pot you have no other use for, a Rubbermaid tub - as long as you don't care if it gets stained.
Since you're not using it for food, you can get a really basic IC for like $60 and not worry about fancy features like WiFi or built-in recipes -all you need is something that can hold a temperature setting and circulate water.
Sweet
You should get sand-colored furniture (grip and stock) for that build, and dye them to match the mags That would REALLY look spiffy!
That's a sick ass purple. Color varies based on color of the parts you start with. If parts are black it don't work well
That's awesome
Very cool
I love that
I used to do this with lacrosse sticks. If you put hot glue on it, you can dye it in multiple colors. I might try this to be able to tell immediately between my 300BLK and 5.56. Draw on them with hot glue and write 300 or 556 etc. Or, you can make your own camouflage pattern!
Royal Purple mags for the King's AR 15....LOL I have a couple 40 rd Magpul mags in "white". Guess I need to find some Rit dye in FDE and OD green. FWIW this would be a good way to mark mags for different ammo types and cals.
Is there a difference between the powder dye and the liquid or do they both do the same job equally as good ?
Use RIT Dye for clothes, $4 at Walmart. Or use iDye Poly. Heat water to just below boiling. Add color and mix for 2 to 3 minutes. Add Magpul parts. Let sit in the mix for 5 to 10 minutes depending on how dark or what effect you want. Remove part and rinse with cool water to remove excess dye and to cool the part which helps lock in the color. Dry. Reassemble. The old stealth grey, foliage green, and FDE parts also work well. A few tips; Use distilled water. Tap water has too many chemicals which may affect the outcome. Add a little white vinegar for poly parts or materials or add salt for natural materials. (Not needed if you use iDye products.) Don't just poor the dye down the drain. Don't waste, use your dye for jute or dye some UCP camo when your finished dying your parts. Add waterproof masking for hard lines between original color and dye color for designs or camo patterns Or use 3M Scotch blue painters tape as a masking instead. Dye for around 5 to 6 minutes. The blue tape will SLOWLY absorb water. Check part, at around five minutes and take it out as soon as the first pieces of blue tape start coming off. This will give an effect where some areas are original color, some the dye color, and some areas a gradient in between. (Kelly Green Dye on FDE looks like A-Tacks FG or a little Multicam like.) For the effect like in the Magpul pictures of their dyed M3 PMags, get a plastic grocery bag. Put the part inside. Crumble up the bag around the part. Add rubber bands around the whole thing to hold the bag around the part. Three or four on a PMag is good. Poke a FEW holes in the plastic in between the rubber bands to let dye in. Put in dye for 5 to 10 minutes. Take out. Rinse, take off the rubber bands and bag then rinse again. Dry. Reassemble. jacquardproducts.com/idye.html
This is a very good tutorial. Will this work with Translucent plastic? In the future, I am planning on purchasing G1 Transformer weapons in Translucent Plastic. Please let me know. Thank you.
Stainless steel? I'll use whichever damn pot I want to dye my weapons in!! Huh, what's that? Honey? Oh, never mind..........
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Seems as though you could rit dye them a certain color then stencil on whatever (caliber markings, numbering, initials etc.) and rattle can quickly over it.
or maybe you could rit dye 1 color, stencil on, then rit dye a 2nd color. I wonder if that would work.
Gonna try doing gray. Or maybe dark blue. Not sure yet.
It's an awesome color turned out, saturated!
If it were same easy to colored black PMAG to FDE, for example, it would be great. But there are no miracles in the world... ;)
Wow, they came out great. How do they hold up with use?
Larry Flint all of the magazines I have dyed still look new after thousands of rounds
Interesting video. Iv just finished my first build and been looking at colors, unfortunately cerakote doesn't offer a blue that matches so I think I have to get it anodized. Which iv seen videos but don't trust myself esp on my 1st one lol
Have you tried any other mag. Like the hexmags. I have hexmags that I want to change there color
So what did you do with the pans and leftover liquid after they cooled down?
Nice!
You can use Clear Pyrex also to boil and cool off