Dyeing acetal

Bustedbricks · Oct 12, 2012

Did some experiments today and dyed acetal gears with Dylon dye. Works great. After 10 minutes in the dye the colour has good penetrations. The gears below are a dark grey and light brown. They are MOD 1 and MOD 0.5 gears cut on my laser.

sssfox · Oct 12, 2012

What kind of laser do you have and how thick acetal can you cut?

Bustedbricks · Oct 13, 2012

I have a 60W CO2 laser. I have only tried 3mm so far but it should be fine up to at least 6mm. The cut faces have a slight taper but if I flip one gear the mesh is perfect.

crankincraig · Oct 23, 2012

I have used RIT dye available at most of your local department stores here in the states. Used it to dye parts on RC cars and trucks , color choices are pretty much endless and it actually works really well. Not sure if it is the same as Dylon dye but it does work well.

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