Anyone just dye an entire discs to change the color?

[RoomTenONine]

I have some white KC Pro Aviars that I want in black. Can I just clean them and dye them with black Rit?

[dgdave]

You can try, they'll just turn a dirty grey.

[RoomTenONine]

How is it then that the dye will be black for designs? Just use more dye?

[dgdave]

KC plastic just doesn't take dye well, just like DX. There is supposedly some "super" dye out there that will dye JK/KC and DX, but I haven't seen it.

[RoomTenONine]

Gotcha! Thanks. If anyone knows of teh super dye DGDAVE is referring to, please let me know.

[dgdave]

The guys from Marshall street were talking about it on the PDGA board, biut they wouldn't give specifics. They heard about it from Dave Mac. You may contact him

[RoomTenONine]

Thanks for the heads up! I assume you mean Dave McCormack from Gateway.

[anhyzer busch53]

KC Pro discs do not take dye very well. My friend asked me if I could dye his white kc pro aviar black even after I told him it wouldnt turn out very well. It turned into a dark grey.

[cmlasley]

Aside from the discussion on dyeing KC and DX, I've dyed a few white Star, Champ, and Pro discs orange just because I like orange better / to make them easier to find in the snow.

[ChUcK]

Gotcha! Thanks. If anyone knows of teh super dye DGDAVE is referring to, please let me know.

I do not know of the dye, but I recommend using the same technique that I have used to gain every ounce of dye knowledge that I currently have-

EXPERIMENT!!!! You can't have everything handed to you in life, sometimes you gotta blaze your own trail.

[frizfraz]

I just dyed my KC pro aviar-x totally black yesterday, it came out really well, I just had to leave the disc in the dye for about 3 hours, and I kept heating it up and cooling it down about every hour. I used rit dye and it worked fine.





actually sorry it's JK pro.

[marmoset]

Was it clovered before the process?

[Leopard]

I recommend using the same technique that I have used to gain every ounce of dye knowledge that I currently have-

... sometimes you gotta blaze ...

solid advice!

i blazed a trail the other night -- i hot-stamped a disc, freehand.
i'll post my findings once i learn some more and try out more tools/approaches. for the time being, take comfort in the fact that there is a freehand-stamped disc in existence, and the knowledge will soon be shared

[frizfraz]

Ya, it was already clovered before I dyed it

[RoomTenONine]

Gotcha! Thanks. If anyone knows of teh super dye DGDAVE is referring to, please let me know.

I do not know of the dye, but I recommend using the same technique that I have used to gain every ounce of dye knowledge that I currently have-

EXPERIMENT!!!! You can't have everything handed to you in life, sometimes you gotta blaze your own trail.

Oh man I totally agree. As a scientist I spend all day doing just that...blazing new trails. And on the weekends I can be found just blazing Buuuuuut, I also know the value in not reinventing the wheel so I thought I'd ask if anyone knew the dye. I've actually experimented a good bit with KC Pro since I posted this. I haven't locked on to anything super successful, but when I do I'll be sure to share.