Vynl dye?

woox · Post by **woox** » Fri May 30, 2008 11:02 am

Just curious why do you guys use Krylon instead of Vynl dye for painting your cases? Vynl dye chemically alters the color of the plastic (Krylon is NOT vynly dye).

Website · Post by **Life of Brian** » Fri May 30, 2008 11:58 am

Um, because I didn't know about it?

Started doing some research on it, here's some good info.

More good info

I want to try this stuff!

Mister X · Post by **Mister X** » Fri May 30, 2008 12:11 pm

I used to hang out in car forums back in the day. I heard some griping about vinyl dye being an imperfect solution for plastics, both in color matching, and being colorfast... so I avoided it.

I heard praises sung of Fusion, and gave it a shot. I was suitably impressed as to use it almost exclusively. It's not bulletproof, but as I've said before, when properly cured, I couldn't even remove it intentionally.

Dr. KillGood · Post by **Dr. KillGood** » Fri May 30, 2008 2:07 pm

Does vynal die work on bondoed ABS?

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Fri May 30, 2008 2:22 pm

Dr. KillGood wrote:Does vynal die work on bondoed ABS?

I think thats the problem, it probably won't work on bondo. Krylon Fusion isn't exclusively for plastic, it is also made for metal and other stuff so it is generally the better pick.

APHawkes · Post by **APHawkes** » Fri May 30, 2008 3:23 pm

Can't anybody spell? It's Vinyl Dye!

It's a dye, meaning it won't cover the surface - it embeds itself into it. I don't think it'll work too well on ABS (or non-plastics) because ABS is Styrene and the dye is formulated for Vinyl.

Krylon Fusion is paint - it covers the surface. It happens to be formulated to bond well to plastics (perhaps with a built-in primer of some kind) but is completely different.