Colored(Dyed) #6-32 Nylon Acorn nuts

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I've been experimenting for the last couple weeks with leather dyes and other coloring to no avail trying to make myself some red acorn nuts for the plastics on one of my pins.

Leather colorings work like paint, very tough but tools would still take it off most likely.
Krylon, same deal but weaker than leather paints/dyes I've tried.

Today is SUCCESS! I've found a dye that works!

Would anyone else be interested in dyed acorn nuts for their plastics or anything else? I can order in any size you'd like.

The below results are a 2 cups/1 tsp dye mixture, bathed for 45 minutes and washed. A stronger dye mixture MAY provide a deeper dye job, but I'm not sure.



Me likey! :D

And this is a REAL dye job, it will NEVER come off as the entire nylon nut is truly dyed.
 
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I dyed the rest of what I had in the same amount of dye, for 45 minutes again. I think I could dye 100 at a time.



Let's say $0.30 a piece then based on what I can dye in the future at this point. If you want some of these ones in red, drop me a PM. I need about 12 or so of them for myself, so there's at least 30 of em I can sell.

If you're interested in another color, please PM too. I will come up with a list of some colors if there's enough interest.
 
While I don't have any need for them right now, I have to admit this is a cool idea and looks to have been masterfully executed. Nice work!!

Free bump. :)
 
Thanks, I haven't seen much interest in actually wanting them, but I have gotten alot of good feedback elsewhere.

I'm going to buy 2 more base dyes, blue and yellow. A whole bunch more cap nuts, and dye up 6 base colors. They're small enough that I can sit on inventory of them without any worry.

Red
Blue
Yellow
Green
Purple
Orange
 
Very cool. I would definitely be in for some purple for my Genesis. Let me look over my others to see what would look good.
 
Put the order in for the yellow and blue dyes. Seems yellow dye costs considerably more for some reason...almost twice as much.

I'm gonna head over to put my order in for 300 more nuts this week, as they don't keep local stock and have to get them in from Indianapolis for me.
 
Pretty neat, would look good on games that need them. Much better than plain white or off while.

Nylon is easy to dye. Regular RIT dye will work great on it. We used to use it to color white nylon car bushings. I don't remember the details but I remember boiling the nylon. Probably just followed the instructions on the package. Since Nylon absorbs water, it takes dye very well.

Wade
 
Picked up another 300 nuts from Fastenal, actually 299...seems I cleaned the distribution centre in Indy out!

As soon as my other dyes come in, I'll have 6 colors up for sale in the FS section.
 
I'd be interested in some lighter blue ones for my D&D. The white just looks terrible against the blue plastics.

I'll be offering a medium type shade of all colors, offering all kinds of different shades would increase cost.
Thus my blue will be a "blue" and not a "light blue" or "navy blue".

With enough interest, this could change...but there will only be the 6 base colors to start.
 
I'll be offering a medium type shade of all colors, offering all kinds of different shades would increase cost.
Thus my blue will be a "blue" and not a "light blue" or "navy blue".

With enough interest, this could change...but there will only be the 6 base colors to start.


Blue blue works for me!
 
Any idea on pricing yet ?

I had a rough idea based on my "experimenting" cost, and now my 300pc order and more dyes in a better idea.
Yellow dye is almost double the cost of red/blue for some reason, so yellow will cost the most, and derivatives using yellow(green/orange) between the others.

I'm thinking around these price points

Red, Blue, Purple = $0.30/pc
Orange, Green = $0.35/pc
Yellow = $0.40/pc

I don't think I can do any better than that unless I order in the thousands and get a break on the cap prices. The dye cost is only a fraction, but even a break on cap prices wouldn't net much lower than a couple cents a piece likely.
 
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