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Title: Question - Dylon dye keycaps
Post by: Alpsie on Sat, 04 April 2015, 09:35:39
Greetings all

Iīve just recently purchased some white PBT keycaps with transparent POM legends.
I want to dye these keycaps, and Iīve read positive stuff about the brand Dylon and their Multi-purpose dyes.
Sadly I canīt seem to get the multi-purpose type where I live.
This is why I would like to know if the type called fabric dye for hand use, will be of any use to dye my keycaps?
If it canīt be used Iīll purchase the MPD from Germany.
Title: Re: Question - Dylon dye keycaps
Post by: nubbinator on Sat, 04 April 2015, 17:10:44
I'd see if you can find any iDye Poly first.  It works quicker than Dylon and looks great.
Title: Re: Question - Dylon dye keycaps
Post by: Alpsie on Sun, 05 April 2015, 13:25:51
Sadly I canīt seem to find that either. and dylon is about 5 euro cheaper for each color, so ill start with dylon first.
Title: Re: Question - Dylon dye keycaps
Post by: Yoe on Tue, 07 April 2015, 02:21:04
The thing with the multi-purpose dye is that it can dye synthetics like polyester (and therefore also PBT). The ordinary fabric dye won't do.

I ordered Dylon multi-purpose dye from http://thedyeshop.eu/ (http://thedyeshop.eu/). They also sell iDye Poly if you want to try that.
Title: Re: Question - Dylon dye keycaps
Post by: Alpsie on Sat, 09 May 2015, 11:12:17
I purchased the dylon ones from a german seller.
I just tried dyeing some excess keys with the "coffee" and the water did indeed turn into a really nice brown color, but even after having the key in the water for 2h at 70c, all I noticed was that the caps turned grey :S I have no idea why that is. (I did it with toubleshot white keycaps) These are the keycaps im trying to dye http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vortex-106-White-PBT-Backlight-Doubleshot-Cherry-MX-Keyset-Keycaps-/281679977434?nma=true&si=OdwHlfKRmqXtP7Pq1b2%252BqBg9E84%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vortex-106-White-PBT-Backlight-Doubleshot-Cherry-MX-Keyset-Keycaps-/281679977434?nma=true&si=OdwHlfKRmqXtP7Pq1b2%252BqBg9E84%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557)


So Iīve ordered some of the Idye poly, hopefully I can work out a nice color to go with brown.