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I picked up this hinderer eklipse about a week ago. I wasn’t a big fan of the light green color so I dyed it dark purple. What do you guys think? I was also thinking yellow but I figured if I dyed it yellow it would look like a weird banana…

Either way, I’m loving this bad boy :D

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[–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Im glad you like it! The process was very easy to dye it. I got a small pot and filled it with water. Then I put the dye (entire bottle) into the water. I add just a couple small squirts of dish soap to help break the surface tension in the water. Bring the water to a boil and then let simmer. While the water is hot, dunk the scale in it. To hold the scale, I fed a string through the screw holes and held it suspended in the water (I did not let it touch the bottom of the pot). Every thirty seconds or so I pulled it out and ran it under water so I could see the color of it clearly. Keep doing this until it reaches the desired hue. Once its done, just wash it good with soap and water to get excess dye off (the stuff can stain your hands for awhile so you don’t want to get it on yourself/clothing). Then just reassemble the pockie and you’re good to go. I have not dyed anything yellow to show but below is a pic of the exact dye I used, just in yellow color instead of purple. For this dye though, it is important to use the DyeMore version. The regular version does not work as well.