New Rit Formula = No Dying Discs

[BillyAce]

It's all usable good dye, just picked up older stuff here and there from around town, ended up with a decent stash. But I prefer the jaquard idye, the color is much better and higher quality than rit, after using it I really have no desire to use rit again unless I have to.

Would you like to get rid of your rit dye? And Where do you get the idye from? How does its price compare to rit?

 

[burntneuron]

Check out this thread for more info on it. Idye should be able to be found at any craft/art store that carries fabric dyes.

 

[Eky8]

I think it depends on where you live. I've looked everywhere around my house and can't find it. But there are several online retailers.

 

[burntneuron]

That could be true, they're based just north of San Francisco from what I could find, I'm surprised you didn't find them out in Utah. But the deals you found online were the best I've seen price wise on it.

 

[RocTheDisc]

Just picked up a box of powder, batch 20011. Worked just fine for now.

 

[donnyv]

Found some powder with numbers #xxx10 at a local Michaels store. They were behind the #xxx11 ones. I pulled them all from the shelf in the search. No black but scored some orange, royal and navy blue which I was looking for. All the rest had #xxx11 but they were hard to see, you really had to put them a foot or less from your face just to see that stamping.

All their liquid was stamped #xxx11.

Thanks for the heads-up guys. Good luck in your quests for Rit dye.

 

[agent_peebody]

heading out to pillage all the good stuff around me today.

 

[MartyK]

All their liquid was stamped #xxx11.
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Donny, The year on the liquid is not going to always mean that it does not work. If the bottle cap has the letters ND on it also, then it will NOT work. ND = no discs (not really, but good way to remember).
The same holds true for the packets but the ND can be harder to see. Open the box and the bag should have writing on it. If you can read the writing and do not see ND, then this color should also work.

I'm not certain but I think if you can make out the ND on one of the powders from a batch, I'd assume the whole batch is ND

 

[MrFixIt]

Scored 2 boxes of pearl grey, 1 tangerine, 1 dark green, 1 scarlet this past weekend. Everything else had the "bad" #'s. I was hoping for a better haul, but the boxes were just dusty and not as old as I had hoped for...

 

[BillyAce]

I need black! Who has some black to hook me up with?

 

[solomon.trenton]

two quick questions. i am also too lazy to find them in this thread.
1) why did rit change the formula?
2) what numbers are good batches and where are they located?

 

[ejvogie]

1) Unavailability (cost prohibitive is the conspiracy theory here) of some ingredients

2) Anything ending in '11' or marked with 'ND' (which we have since labeled as meaning "No Disc"). There are 5 digits in the batch number. The first 3 represent day on manufacture, the last 2 represent year. Batch 12311 would represent that it was made on the 123d day of 2011.

 

[solomon.trenton]

thanks. so what are you guys going to use instead?

 

[MikePinchico]

Ground up charcoal mixed with hydrochloric acid

 

[agent_peebody]

1) Unavailability (cost prohibitive is the conspiracy theory here) of some ingredients

2) Anything ending in '11' or marked with 'ND' (which we have since labeled as meaning "No Disc"). There are 5 digits in the batch number. The first 3 represent day on manufacture, the last 2 represent year. Batch 12311 would represent that it was made on the 123d day of 2011.

i thought you want the xxx10 batches. made from 2010. am i wrong?

 

[maansmit]

1) Unavailability (cost prohibitive is the conspiracy theory here) of some ingredients

2) Anything ending in '11' or marked with 'ND' (which we have since labeled as meaning "No Disc"). There are 5 digits in the batch number. The first 3 represent day on manufacture, the last 2 represent year. Batch 12311 would represent that it was made on the 123d day of 2011.

Not all "11 batches are bad. I put together a spreadsheet that lists all of the batches that have been confirmed as either good or bad that I will repost (people quit posting batch #'s so it hasn't been updated in awhile).

 

[maansmit]

thanks. so what are you guys going to use instead?

An alternative has been located but is only available in 8 colors right now. I don't think anyone has used it much yet and we don't know how it will fade compared to how Rit does. I just got a few packets of it in the mail the other day but haven't been able to test it out. See the thread below.

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43518

 

[maansmit]

i thought you want the xxx10 batches. made from 2010. am i wrong?

'10 batches have all been good so far so they are the safest bet when buying dye. '11's have been hit or miss depending on the color. I don't know if they have converted all of the colors to the new formula yet for the powders so some may still be fine regardless of the batch #.

 

[agent_peebody]

Not all "11 batches are bad. I put together a spreadsheet that lists all of the batches that have been confirmed as either good or bad that I will repost (people quit posting batch #'s so it hasn't been updated in awhile).

have you located the spreadsheet?

 

[maansmit]

have you located the spreadsheet?

Let me know if you can't access it. I can't remember when it was last updated. People quit posting their batch #'s so it probably is pretty close to being the most up-to-date.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgRVHTz6zH6AdC00WEd1djFCSmpMWmR2c0wySGZKX0E&authkey=CKDmttIG&hl=en_US#gid=0