is it possible to dye?

What kind of tubing is it? You can dye natural latex, which is a tan color, with the rit dyes. If you have a clear vinyl I don't think dying would take to it.

I now see it is vinyl.......you can try it but I think your results will be poor.

There is all kinds of color availible if you do dome surfing.

what are you doing?

What kind of tubing is it? You can dye natural latex, which is a tan color, with the rit dyes. If you have a clear vinyl I don't think dying would take to it.

I now see it is vinyl.......you can try it but I think your results will be poor.

There is all kinds of color availible if you do dome surfing.

yep, I know I can find a bunch of colors but clear is cheap :tooth:.
5 bucks for 30 feet at home depot

You can most defently dye it. Boil up some rite dye and let soak/simer for about a 1/2 hour. Pre-cut your tubes before you dye and make sure there are no kinks in it as they will never come out. After about a 1/2 hour of them in the simering boil take the pot off the stove and rinse them down with cold water, this helps maintaine the color in the pores of the tube closing them quickly. After that hang them and they will maintaine there natural shape.
The wine colored dye on a 20' tube is un beatable!!

Make sure you add the salt per the directions to lock the color

Doesn't seem worth the hassle with all the colors available.

Doesn't seem worth the hassle with all the colors available.

you could say the same about plugs

and at $1.15-1.25 per foot id like to try and make my own.

You can most defently dye it. Boil up some rite dye and let soak/simer for about a 1/2 hour. Pre-cut your tubes before you dye and make sure there are no kinks in it as they will never come out. After about a 1/2 hour of them in the simering boil take the pot off the stove and rinse them down with cold water, this helps maintaine the color in the pores of the tube closing them quickly. After that hang them and they will maintaine there natural shape.
The wine colored dye on a 20' tube is un beatable!!

caught my biggest fish this year on wine16' tube.

i was wondering how to make it porous since the vinyl seems porousless.

when it is in the boiling/simering water it opens up. IF it was completely seeled, no pores, it would not get soft. Also remember to keep it @ a lite boil, as to much will alter the shape/state of the tube.

bought me some rit, gonna experiment tonight

you could say the same about plugs

and at $1.15-1.25 per foot id like to try and make my own.

Touche' . Good luck and let us see your results.

That rit dye is some potent stuff... if you do this be careful and have some bleach readily availible

Results
http://images20.fotki.com/v368/photos/8/850959/4401474/IMG_0495-vi.jpg

http://images20.fotki.com/v373/photos/8/850959/4401474/IMG_0499-vi.jpg

http://images14.fotki.com/v371/photos/8/850959/4401474/IMG_0500-vi.jpg

this is definetly cheaper than finding the pre color stuff online..

5.70 for a 20 ft role clear vinyl tube home depot
2.39 red rit dye

Got about 10 tubes out of it.

interesting

interesting indeed

thats very bright red. so you don't need all that tube I bought ya?

Looks good. Nice job.

thats very bright red. so you don't need all that tube I bought ya?

there are lots of colors i can make. the flash kind of brightens it...the no flash pictures represent the color better...

"scarlet"




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