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question about vinyl dye

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Hey this is my first post, I just recently used vinyl dye on a front bezel and it came out great, nice and glossy. I used it again on a few drive bezels and this time it came out pretty much flat colored. The can is nowhere near empty and I even bought another one just in case it was messed up. With the new one I got the same results, flat colored. I shook the can a lot and I'm sure that wasn't the problem. Do you think it might be a temperature difference problem? I painted with it on different days, and the first was much hotter than the last one.

Thanks for reading.
 
Did you bother to sand the surfaces you were painting on?
 
It could be a difference in plastic type or texture of the plastics.
 
might want to try priming it to get a surface that will not absorb the dye (which is probably making it flat instead of gloss)
 
If he primes it then he needs to use paint, not dye. The whole point of a dye is that it dyes the plastic. If you coat the plastic with something else then the dye cannot penetrate into the plastic to dye it, making the dye pointless.
 
How many coats of the dye did you use? Since it is so thin, sometimes 4 or 5 light coats is needed for good coverage. But i've never had a gloss dye come out flat...
 
I used about 6 coats on each. I even dyed the back of the glossy bezel to see it it was the plastic and it also came out flat. I am going to go buy some more, there still is a possibility that both cans I got were messed up somehow I think.

Also, can you clearcoat vinyl dye ok? Would it make the finish turn out better?
 
I would not clearcoat the dye. The clearcoat is thick (compared to dye) and would cover all the details that the dye left. My vinyl dye jobs have been pretty rugged... I've had them done for a year or so and they still look fine.
 
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