Black gear cover

[MOfroggy]

I painted the gear cover on the Rampage. I didn't like the "weak" looking color of the raw plastic. I used a Krylon paint I got at W-mart supposedly made especially for plastic. I don't know if Krylon makes any other colors besides black but that is all that W-mart had at my local. I painted it inside and out. I lightly scratched the surfaces with a ScotchBrite pad to help the paint stick. We will see if it sticks. I will report back.


Mofroggy

 

[RampageHopUps]

RIT dye will work alot better. Cheaper too. Until you spill it in the kitchen and have to get new floors.

 

[Skater229]

The black does look much better... What else on the truck could use some touch up on color?


Skater

 

[Skater229]

RIT dye will work alot better. Cheaper too. Until you spill it in the kitchen and have to get new floors.

Sounds like first hand knowledge...


Skater

 

[MOfroggy]

Me and RIT dye go back a long way.


Back in the old days of the plastics business I made the face guards for football helmets. NFL, College and high school...I pretty much had that market sewed up. We molded them in natural colored nylon and after a couple of law suits figured out that they needed to be "annealed" by boiling them in water for about an hour to relieve the stresses caused by the injection molding process to keep them from breaking. One day one of my employees came by and saw the big kettle of boiling water (this was WAY before OSHA) with all of the face guards in it and said "You know, you could probably dye them different colors with RIT dye". We tried it and it worked. Our sales went up by about 35% because we could offer pretty close to school colors by mixing different color dyes. I gave the employee a $0.25 per hour raise and eventually made him my partner (he is my younger brother by the way!).


I think the plastic for the gear cover is either Polypropolyne or polyethelene and I would be very interested in knowing if anyone has success in dying them with RIT dye.


Mofroggy


P.S. I sold the face mask business to someone dumber than me that had deep pockets with a staff lawyer who convinced them that law suites were not a big thing! They went broke in less than 6 months!

 

[RampageHopUps]

Yep, I had stain on the floor and the kitchen table. Then I moved out to the front of the house, and now I have a huge stain right in front of the garage door.

 

[Kaz the Minotaur]

HAHA. The metal pot that I store my LiPos in is also my dying pot. I'm not allowed to go near any of her other pots for dying.


I got yelled at about taking that pot until she found a taller one that was lost in the basement.


I suppose you could dye the gas tank also but then you couldn't see how much fuel you had left.