my adventure with RIT dye and an urban grey cz p07 frame

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so I wasn't a big fan of the urban grey color, but I found a deal on a p07 suppressor host I couldn't pass up, even if it was grey. So I thought I would try dying it black. I stripped the frame, boiled some water and tossed in about 1/3 a bottle of black RIT dye into 2/3 gallon water. let it sit for 40 minutes and rinsed. Frame turned a super dary navy or midnight blue. Not the black I was hoping for, but I kind of dig it. Certainly shows less dirt and fingerprints than that pale grayish color. Suppressors are messy. Who's stupid idea was it to make a nearly white gun?!?
stripped frame
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this is the most natural lighting picture and is the best representation of the color. It's hard to tell it's blue, but the color is different than the black magazine
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it doesn't really look this blue in real life. The flash brought out the blue
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so, for me, and improvement, but I would still have preferred black. I don't know what black dye gave me blue, but whatever.
 
Interesting. That came out pretty nice. I like it. :thumbup:

I tried my hand at dying a Thordson FDE stock for an AR project I am putting together. I had my upper & lower as well as the barrel Cerakoted with Titanium Blue color and my handguard down in Crushed Silver.
I wanted my buttstock to be blue.
I used RIT “Sapphire Blue” dye.
I got the water (~2 gallons) to 175 degrees (per a video I found for dying polymers) and dumped 1/2 bottle of dye into the water.
I left the stock components in the dye for 2 minutes. The results are below. Sorry for the lousy photos. This was a stock project, not a photo project.

The blue didn’t come out like I wanted so I have decided to have the stock Cerakoted but for a first try it wasn’t bad.

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I have never tried this – how does this hold up over time? Does the dye leach onto your face or hands?
 
Learn me somethin new every day. I'd have just suffered with the original color. Never would have thought RIT could be used. Now I just need something to try this on..
 
People have been dying the sand colored pmag all sorts of colors for years. According to what I've read, it does not wear off or leech, but does not penetrate very deep into the plastic, so it can wear.
 
I have never tried this – how does this hold up over time? Does the dye leach onto your face or hands?

If you do a search there are quite a few videos in dying polymer mags, stocks and such. The dye does not leech out but it only penetrates a minimal amount into the polymer.

The stock that I dyed had raised lines from the mold process. I didn’t notice them before dying it so when I decided to go ahead and Cerakote it I took a knife and shaved the raised lines down to smooth out the stock. It didn’t take much scraping to see the tan polymer under the blue dyed polymer.
If I had to guess I would say maybe a tenth of a millimeter, maybe two tenths of a millimeter.
 
Learn me somethin new every day. I'd have just suffered with the original color. Never would have thought RIT could be used. Now I just need something to try this on..

They do make plastic dyes... Even though most of us with a few grey hairs immediately think of the clothing dye.
 
It works on knives too... I only wanted to dye half of the handle so it would be unique. I pulled it about 5 minutes in and the dyed part was a coffee bean brown, dropped it back in and 10 minutes later it was black.
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Aside from stainless, aren't most guns "blued". ;)

I think it came out well, nicer than the original gray. My thought would be how durable is the finish to holster wear, etc.?
 
greyling22

I like the new "blue" frame! Looks different and custom at the same time! Keep us posted from time to time as to how well the color holds up.
 
I think this would be very helpful on mags when using multiple calibers in an AR. I'll have to research this a little
 
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