Thank you for this tutorial!! One question : Some prochem colors do not dissolve well in water and acetone... Remains powder sediment... Is this normal?
I purchased some glass jars I found on Amazon, but when I shake them up to help dissolve the mixture a bit more after acetone is added it ate the crud out of the plastic lid. Are these glass bottles with droppers better to avoid that? Don’t want to have to worry about not getting acetone on the lids when moving the container around so these could be the answer I’m looking for. Love your videos and content, thank you so much for all you are doing for the newbies out here trying to get into this hobby!
You have to be careful with the containers you get to use acetone in. Some plastic and/or rubber will dissolve. I recently switched over from using the glass dropper bottles to HDPE plastic bottles. You can find the supplies I use on the Dyers Guild website. dyersguild.co/supplies/
2 oz is about 60 ml. Google has a useful converter, just do a Google search in this format: 2 oz in ml It works for any official unit, for example ”450 ft in m” or ”40 knots to kmh”. Mind that this is for the US fl oz. The imperial fl oz would be about 57 ml.
Thanks for the info! I just started dyeing. I’m doing a multi color job of the Houston Astros logo. I dyed the blue part using a hot dip. It came out perfect! Next, I removed the star part of stencil which is orange. It’s not holding. I tried lotion over night. denatured alcohol wont hold. Any idea on the problem or to resolve?
@marktxm when your having saturation issues heat is your friend either a heat lamp or a food dehydrator works to get really good saturation esp with neon colors that are very stubborn hope that helps
Nice, simple to understand video! I haven't seen anyone recommend the lab mixer before; that looks like it would make super thorough mixes! Question: For the lotion mixture, you said you were putting 1 tbsp dye and 2 tbsp water in the 4oz bottle, but you only show yourself adding 1 tsp of dye (2 half tsp measures). I thought you might have edited out adding the other 4 half tsp of dye because it would be very repetitive, but your dyeing mixture recipes link shows 1/2 tsp dye and 1 tsp water to 2oz lotion, so that would seem to translate into 1 tsp dye and 2 tsp water to 4oz lotion. Did you mean to say teaspoons in the video instead of tablespoons?
2 questions for you... 1. Does aloe vera lotion work fine? 2. Can iDye be subbed for pro chem? I wanted to do a full color disc and heard this was the best way but I don't know proper mixing. Thanks!
Maybe add a line at the bottom of your cheat sheet of metric units? :) (Aprox: 2oz = 60mL 16oz = 0,5L) close enough for a round number. Thanks for some great videos!
Thank you for this tutorial!! One question : Some prochem colors do not dissolve well in water and acetone... Remains powder sediment... Is this normal?
I purchased some glass jars I found on Amazon, but when I shake them up to help dissolve the mixture a bit more after acetone is added it ate the crud out of the plastic lid. Are these glass bottles with droppers better to avoid that? Don’t want to have to worry about not getting acetone on the lids when moving the container around so these could be the answer I’m looking for.
Love your videos and content, thank you so much for all you are doing for the newbies out here trying to get into this hobby!
You have to be careful with the containers you get to use acetone in. Some plastic and/or rubber will dissolve. I recently switched over from using the glass dropper bottles to HDPE plastic bottles. You can find the supplies I use on the Dyers Guild website.
dyersguild.co/supplies/
Great video! One question: How much is 2 oz aceton in milliliter?
2 oz is about 60 ml.
Google has a useful converter, just do a Google search in this format:
2 oz in ml
It works for any official unit, for example ”450 ft in m” or ”40 knots to kmh”.
Mind that this is for the US fl oz. The imperial fl oz would be about 57 ml.
Great job Dave. Very informative.
Thank you!
Thanks for the info! I just started dyeing. I’m doing a multi color job of the Houston Astros logo. I dyed the blue part using a hot dip. It came out perfect! Next, I removed the star part of stencil which is orange.
It’s not holding. I tried lotion over night.
denatured alcohol wont hold.
Any idea on the problem or to resolve?
Using pro chem dye
@marktxm when your having saturation issues heat is your friend either a heat lamp or a food dehydrator works to get really good saturation esp with neon colors that are very stubborn hope that helps
Awesome vids Dave!!!
Thank you!
Nice, simple to understand video! I haven't seen anyone recommend the lab mixer before; that looks like it would make super thorough mixes!
Question: For the lotion mixture, you said you were putting 1 tbsp dye and 2 tbsp water in the 4oz bottle, but you only show yourself adding 1 tsp of dye (2 half tsp measures). I thought you might have edited out adding the other 4 half tsp of dye because it would be very repetitive, but your dyeing mixture recipes link shows 1/2 tsp dye and 1 tsp water to 2oz lotion, so that would seem to translate into 1 tsp dye and 2 tsp water to 4oz lotion. Did you mean to say teaspoons in the video instead of tablespoons?
Yeahhhh, I get those two mixed up and didn't catch that after the video was uploaded...
2 questions for you...
1. Does aloe vera lotion work fine?
2. Can iDye be subbed for pro chem?
I wanted to do a full color disc and heard this was the best way but I don't know proper mixing. Thanks!
I have not tried aloe vera lotion, test and find out!
Yep, I use iDye as well.
Why Cocoa butter lotion? Why not just regular lotion?
Why use water with the acetone mixture? I just been doing the acetone.
Helps the dye dissolve better and get better saturation in the mix. I'd try a test to see if you get the same results I did.
@@discsdyedbydave very interesting. Thanks so much. This might explain a few of my issues
Maybe add a line at the bottom of your cheat sheet of metric units? :) (Aprox: 2oz = 60mL 16oz = 0,5L) close enough for a round number. Thanks for some great videos!