@Sylvie and @Xenon27 seems to have mastered the ability to dye vex plastic parts. I pulled together the pictures that I could find to make it easier for people to search for and find. The dye process is shown here in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4ltH6-34Ps&ab_channel=6047OSSemicolo…

[image] Sylvie: Very important, you 100% NEED the dye for synthetics (Rit DyeMore). Graphite is the name of the color. The normal fabric dye does not work. Besides for black, what other target colors are reasonable, especially for the green (now red) gears? Would going to a lighter color (ye…

as far as I’m aware, you won’t be able to achieve lighter colors, especially not colors which are lighter than the starting color. Black is obviously the easiest color to dye. I’ve seen dark blues and purples achieved as well, using a very dark blue on the red plastic would probably yield some sort …

[image] Mentor_355U: what other target colors are reasonable None that I’ve found. You can’t get the red or green out, I tried multiple ways. You can get purple-ish if you use blue dye, but the amount of purple depends on how long you dye it for, so it’s inconsistent. You could probably go …

How hot do you need to get it? Boiling? Just under boiling? Enough to cook a steak in water and it be edible?

My team was hoping to be able to get gears and chains dyed to these color: [image] [image] From what I have read, this wouldn’t be possible to do. How would you recommend getting the lightest blue and lightest orange possible for gears and chains?

Just under boiling. [image] 9MotorGang: How would you recommend getting the lightest blue and lightest orange possible for gears and chains? You could try yellow dye for the orange, but blue is going to be very hard.

ok, so just enough to cook a steak to edible.

Edited: the original was to be a DM, I’m new to this software.

no. toss it with no seasoning straight into the almost boiling water. you can do that though

And I assume we would be best dying red gears yellow for orange and green gears blue for blue. ANd I assume you could only get the chain to be a dark blue.

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