martin34

The water doesn't need to be on the boil when you dye the chassis. As long as the water is boiling hot by the time you put the chassis in. A grey E-revo chassis should be black in the time it takes the water to cool.

Everytime ive dyed traxxas plastics I do two tubs of boiling water leave the parts in one on a soak then prepare the dye bucket then transfer the parts in to it.

The idea was it would soften the plastic up to allow the dye to take better and everytime my parts was pure black within 10 mins I thought of it like our skin in soak it opens up lol sounds strange but I swear 10 min and its pure black. I like it though when it has a sort of metalic shine to it too almost a faint bronze. Or if...

My merv was pretty scuffed up before dye but after it looked new.

Some people say ritt dye ruins the plastics but I dont think that's true for traxxas . Hpi or rpm plastic. But ive heard of some plastics shriveling up in the hot dye.

Ive also reheated dye and reused it with the same results