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Sorry if this topic exists already, but I couldn't find it.
I was hitting a brick wall trying to get a nice, super visible (and easy to find) hot pink or neon pink dye for my discs. I'm not currently too interested in making them look cool, just don't want to have to spend an hour looking for discs every time I play the local courses.
The recent batches of RIT dye seem to be unable to dye plastic and the Fuchsia Rit was a complete failure. So, I had remembered reading that some people had used fishing lure dye to get good bright colors and I had to try it.
Bought some Hot Pink SpikeIt brand "Dip-N-Glo" fishing lure dye. It was just over $5 for a 2oz. bottle at the local Bass-Pro Shop. Now, you have to be careful when you get it, because the normal lure dye is garlic scented. You definitely will want the Unscented variety. Sure, that strong garlic smell will help to keep the vampires from stealing you discs that fly out of sight, but you don't want your disc bag to smell like a Turkish restaurant, do you?
I gave it my first go this afternoon on a clear plastic Champion Spider.
I had no experience with it, so I just took my best shot at how to apply it. I decided on using a fine bristled, small, flat paint brush to dip in the bottle and brush it on to the disc. I went top and bottom with it, brushing from the middle towards the edge and then cleaning up the rim by lightly circling the disc with the brush.
The SpikeIt must have had acetone in it, because it almost immediately began to disolve the Innova stamp on the disc and the dye seems to dry out after a few minutes on the disc.
I kept brushing until I thought it looked just about right and let it dry out. It dried looking very streaked (from the brush) and splotchy (anywhere that it had run or been touched by my rubber gloves) and I thought it was going to be a mess. I then stuck it under some warm running water (which didn't rinse it at all) and pulled out some dish soap and a little green scrubby pad and started scrubbing off all the thick, dried up pink residue off the surface of the disc. It eventually all came off and this is what I ended up with.
Damn! I played with it a few hours later. Nothing came off on my hands and it is very, very easy to see on the course. There are a few very light streaks from the brush still in there, but you have to look hard to see them. I think next time, I'm going to find a good plate to fill with the dye and then float the top of the disc on it, then fill the inside - instead of brushing.
I was hitting a brick wall trying to get a nice, super visible (and easy to find) hot pink or neon pink dye for my discs. I'm not currently too interested in making them look cool, just don't want to have to spend an hour looking for discs every time I play the local courses.
The recent batches of RIT dye seem to be unable to dye plastic and the Fuchsia Rit was a complete failure. So, I had remembered reading that some people had used fishing lure dye to get good bright colors and I had to try it.
Bought some Hot Pink SpikeIt brand "Dip-N-Glo" fishing lure dye. It was just over $5 for a 2oz. bottle at the local Bass-Pro Shop. Now, you have to be careful when you get it, because the normal lure dye is garlic scented. You definitely will want the Unscented variety. Sure, that strong garlic smell will help to keep the vampires from stealing you discs that fly out of sight, but you don't want your disc bag to smell like a Turkish restaurant, do you?
I gave it my first go this afternoon on a clear plastic Champion Spider.
I had no experience with it, so I just took my best shot at how to apply it. I decided on using a fine bristled, small, flat paint brush to dip in the bottle and brush it on to the disc. I went top and bottom with it, brushing from the middle towards the edge and then cleaning up the rim by lightly circling the disc with the brush.
The SpikeIt must have had acetone in it, because it almost immediately began to disolve the Innova stamp on the disc and the dye seems to dry out after a few minutes on the disc.
I kept brushing until I thought it looked just about right and let it dry out. It dried looking very streaked (from the brush) and splotchy (anywhere that it had run or been touched by my rubber gloves) and I thought it was going to be a mess. I then stuck it under some warm running water (which didn't rinse it at all) and pulled out some dish soap and a little green scrubby pad and started scrubbing off all the thick, dried up pink residue off the surface of the disc. It eventually all came off and this is what I ended up with.
Damn! I played with it a few hours later. Nothing came off on my hands and it is very, very easy to see on the course. There are a few very light streaks from the brush still in there, but you have to look hard to see them. I think next time, I'm going to find a good plate to fill with the dye and then float the top of the disc on it, then fill the inside - instead of brushing.
