I saw a post from another forum on rit dying magpul furniture and thought I'd give it a shot. This can all be done at home and at a pretty decent price, the only thing you'll really be paying for is the pmag and any other furniture you so desire to change the color of.
I thought I'd make a batch of off colored mags because for some reason, the ranges I go to, sticky fingered people like to pick up my mags and claim them as their own so why not have mags that most people wont have? Aside from that I've heard of shooters having dedicated training mags and this is definitely a great way to differentiate especially if moving from killhouse to long range and where ammo swapping might come into play. Anyway here's my take on it.
*NOTE*: THE MAGPUL PARTS THAT WERE DYED WERE ORIGINALLY TAN!!!(the results will vary depending on what color mag you originally start with)
*The dye mixture only soaks into the actual plastic a fraction of a Millimeter, I'll shoot some pictures in the future.
*Rocket Science 101- if you leave plastic in a very hot environment for a VERY LONG TIME, it WILL melt and/or warp. don't forget about the parts you place in the soup!!!
Items needed:
-a few pots that will fit whatever it is you're dying (preferrably some older ones that you dont mind possibly screwing up)
-Rit Dye
-tongs and/or latel
-towel
-water
-gloves
Go to your local grocery store, (I chose walmart) and buy some Rit Dye. The colors I chose were:
-Petal Pink
-Sunburst Orange
-Lemon Yellow
-Navy Blue
(you can purchase the dye packets with powder or the liquid form. for my experiment I chose liquid with the bright colors and powder for blue [because of availability at the NEX])
-Once you've done that fill up your pots to roughly 1/2 - 3/4 of the way full of water and heat to a near boil (or hot)
-Add your dye to each individual pot of water and mix thoroughly
BEFORE YOU DYE YOUR PART MAKE SURE THAT IT IS STRIPPED OF ANY UNNECESSARY PARTS (I.E. STRIP PMAGS FROM FLOOR PLATES, SPRING AND FOLLOWER)
-soak whatever furniture/mag/part that you want in the mixture and let it sit.
[*the darkness of the end result will vary on the length the part is submerged in the heated dye mixture]
*be sure to turn the part over also to even out the color (leaving only one side exposed to the heat of the bottom of the pot WILL make ONLY that side darker) in other words EVEN IT OUT.
-remove with Tongs or latel or whatever you choose to pull it out with and let it sit on an old towel to dry out and cool down.
That's pretty much the jist of it. The length of time you leave the part in the heated dye mixture will definitely affect the overall color outcome.
I definitely plan on finding a pretty absurd color combo/end result to dye the furniture on my AR.
another idea a buddy of mine pointed out to me was having a 5.45 upper and dying the mags the off orange AK mag color with the suburst orange rit dye for dedicated mags.
Here are a few pictures
THE FINISHED PRODUCTS
all of the mags with the floor plates still off of them
FINISHED COLORS
left to right rit dye combo
-Navy Blue (pretty much BLACK but if you do a light (i mean nano second) soak it will go gray
-Petal Pink turned it this purpleish color (other trial parts were lighter with shorter soak time)
-Sunburst Orange turned it into what you see there (i cant describe it, ive only got 5 colors in my spectrum...)
-Lemon Yellow made it a puke color
-Stock Tan PMAG floorplate
Here are the different soak time results. some (gray and puke) were done in a cup of dye mixture heated in the microwave
in progress, the Orange and Pink dye next to a stock tan mag
the girlfriend loved seeing that. . .
you can definitely MICROWAVE some small parts or just microwave the water. amazingly enough there were some good results with mild heat and longer soak times. Screw around with it to see what works best for you. Next I'll be dying OD Green Mags along with Foliage Green furniture/mags. I'd definitely like to get a nice Gray tone to dye my furniture. Hope this was worth your time! Shoot on Gents!!!
I thought I'd make a batch of off colored mags because for some reason, the ranges I go to, sticky fingered people like to pick up my mags and claim them as their own so why not have mags that most people wont have? Aside from that I've heard of shooters having dedicated training mags and this is definitely a great way to differentiate especially if moving from killhouse to long range and where ammo swapping might come into play. Anyway here's my take on it.
*NOTE*: THE MAGPUL PARTS THAT WERE DYED WERE ORIGINALLY TAN!!!(the results will vary depending on what color mag you originally start with)
*The dye mixture only soaks into the actual plastic a fraction of a Millimeter, I'll shoot some pictures in the future.
*Rocket Science 101- if you leave plastic in a very hot environment for a VERY LONG TIME, it WILL melt and/or warp. don't forget about the parts you place in the soup!!!
Items needed:
-a few pots that will fit whatever it is you're dying (preferrably some older ones that you dont mind possibly screwing up)
-Rit Dye
-tongs and/or latel
-towel
-water
-gloves
Go to your local grocery store, (I chose walmart) and buy some Rit Dye. The colors I chose were:
-Petal Pink
-Sunburst Orange
-Lemon Yellow
-Navy Blue
(you can purchase the dye packets with powder or the liquid form. for my experiment I chose liquid with the bright colors and powder for blue [because of availability at the NEX])
-Once you've done that fill up your pots to roughly 1/2 - 3/4 of the way full of water and heat to a near boil (or hot)
-Add your dye to each individual pot of water and mix thoroughly
BEFORE YOU DYE YOUR PART MAKE SURE THAT IT IS STRIPPED OF ANY UNNECESSARY PARTS (I.E. STRIP PMAGS FROM FLOOR PLATES, SPRING AND FOLLOWER)
-soak whatever furniture/mag/part that you want in the mixture and let it sit.
[*the darkness of the end result will vary on the length the part is submerged in the heated dye mixture]
*be sure to turn the part over also to even out the color (leaving only one side exposed to the heat of the bottom of the pot WILL make ONLY that side darker) in other words EVEN IT OUT.
-remove with Tongs or latel or whatever you choose to pull it out with and let it sit on an old towel to dry out and cool down.
That's pretty much the jist of it. The length of time you leave the part in the heated dye mixture will definitely affect the overall color outcome.
I definitely plan on finding a pretty absurd color combo/end result to dye the furniture on my AR.
another idea a buddy of mine pointed out to me was having a 5.45 upper and dying the mags the off orange AK mag color with the suburst orange rit dye for dedicated mags.
Here are a few pictures
THE FINISHED PRODUCTS
all of the mags with the floor plates still off of them
FINISHED COLORS
left to right rit dye combo
-Navy Blue (pretty much BLACK but if you do a light (i mean nano second) soak it will go gray
-Petal Pink turned it this purpleish color (other trial parts were lighter with shorter soak time)
-Sunburst Orange turned it into what you see there (i cant describe it, ive only got 5 colors in my spectrum...)
-Lemon Yellow made it a puke color
-Stock Tan PMAG floorplate
Here are the different soak time results. some (gray and puke) were done in a cup of dye mixture heated in the microwave
in progress, the Orange and Pink dye next to a stock tan mag
the girlfriend loved seeing that. . .
you can definitely MICROWAVE some small parts or just microwave the water. amazingly enough there were some good results with mild heat and longer soak times. Screw around with it to see what works best for you. Next I'll be dying OD Green Mags along with Foliage Green furniture/mags. I'd definitely like to get a nice Gray tone to dye my furniture. Hope this was worth your time! Shoot on Gents!!!
