Good video. In the cooling pot you should have a cup to a cup and a half of vinegar added. The vinegar acts as a color lock to speed up and set the color and prevent color bleeding. You also do this when dying fabrics.

Those are not dust caps. I found out a while back that if you watch closely when you're snapping one on to the mag, it PUSHES the rounds down in the mag and relieves pressure on the feed lips. After I figured that out I use them all the time, especially for long term storage.

I tried dying my pmags and polymer buttstock today. They turned out looking really cool. I used dark earth pmags and buttstock. I used orange RIT dye. I wrapped them all in a plastic bags for a cool pattern. Really cool. Will be dying more stuff. This video was really informative. Thanks.

These came out nice. This gives me flash backs to my buddy dying fishing rod guides for a custom wrapped black and pink rod he was making me. The old Fuji salt water guides had a glow green color ring in them that you could dye. His Mom had finally had a new vinyl floor installed in the kitchen literally the day before. She had wanted a new floor for years. He splashed a big load of pink dye water from the hot pot onto the brand new floor. That floor had a big pink spot on it for the next 10 years or so. His mom had a neat new floor for ONE DAY. Best to do this type of job outside on a camp stove or burner over dirt.

Hi Bob, I watched this video when you first posted it. I just accidentally purchased 10 grey magazines. I'm a black rifle guy, so I came back to watch your video. Thank you. Mark just made a new video, now we need you to get back at it.

That purple is very deep and rich!!! Good job man! I had no idea you could do this with the sand mags

That is freakin' amazing! I never knew you could dye plastic like that.

OMG OMG OMG!!!!! Those look amazing!!! Huge purple fan here so I may just have to give this a try.

I tried this with some other fabric dye and it completely failed to stick to the plastic. I finally got some actual Rit dye and it worked like magic. It's much thicker than what I had used previously and it dyed my pmag a very deep, dark blue, just as I had imagined it should. I wish I could post a picture of it.

those turned out so well. that purple is a great color.

These color ideas for light colored mags are great!

This is the best video on dying the sand colored Magpul Pmags using the RIT DyeMore liquid dye. With the popularity of the various grey tone cerakoted ARs I'm hoping you can do another video using the Frost Grey RIT Dye.

That turned out really well. That is a really nice color.

Thanks for the idea. I dyed some old magpul FDE mags and stock that I wasn't using. They came out great I was dying them black nothing interesting but now I've put them to use.

Those came out really good.

It came out so good man, oh my god. It looks unbelievable in the video I can only imagine how good they look in real life👍 amazing work.

Great video. I did this method on sand AK magazines, but still found that if you don't use Vinegar then you have to let them cool down and dry them out, but you still have dye coming off of them. I let them air dry then took a scouring pad and some dish washing soap and scrubbed them down and rinsed them off several time until the excess dye did not come off either on the scouring pad or a paper napkin. I also found that the dye is absorbed fastest on the side closest to the flame so as you mentioned turning it every few minutes does help in the process as well as to check to see the desired results.

Great video and looks great. Always make sure to wash with cold water and dishwashing soap and a scouring pad to remove any excess dye which did not adhere to the mags and to avoid staining your hands or other items. I did these on the AK Sand mags and got a similar finish to bakelite or Russian Red, but had to rise them several times with the method described to remove any excess. Used Scarlet Red and Cherry Red.

Wow! That came out very well. Excellent idea. I will try it on AK mags

VERY NICE, very happy I found this video... So many ideas are popping up in my mind now. It's going to be diy everywhere thanks to this video. My wife's 🤦 going to have you to thank for it...🤣🤣😂

Great video! I use to do this back in high school with my lacrosse sticks... Now I have a new purpose for some old skills 😉

Awesome. I bought sand Pmags to dye them purple. Those came out great

Hey Bob... great inspirational video! So my gun store guy promised me he could get sand colored mags. 2 months later, they arrive... and they're actually brown, or medium coyote tan. Ugh. Plus, I'm in California, so my options to score 30 round "standard" magazines are a bit narrow. I ended up buying a loaf / bread pan from the dollar store for...$1. I boiled some water, let it cool to 190, and poured the water into the loaf pan. Added a splash (about 2 tablespoons?) of royal purple dye. Thought I'd do one and see how it turned out. Deep, deep dark purple, of course! I put the loaf pan carefully on the stove, reheated the dye water, gave it a stir with a plastic spoon, and did all 6 mags. My cooling pan was an aluminum cake pan, also from the dollar store, 2 for a buck. Added about ¼ cup white vinegar. Wish I could score some proper sand colored mags!

Pretty cool trick man. And, with my favorite color too ! NICE !!

First time I've ever watched your videos, good one I liked it and definitely going to subscribed

Man, that purple reminds me of a GT Pro Performer freestyle bike I had as a kid back in the 80s! Thanks for the video!

That's awesome. Think I have some RIT laying around from making micarta. Blood red/ Maroon would be pretty interesting hanging out of a black rifle.

They came out nice.. never thought of that I don’t know if I’ll do the whole mag but will do the base plate.

use a strainer basket to keep the parts from getting lost and having to hunt for them. you also get more even color because you can control the time in the dye.

Love the way the nagazines turned out thank you for this video.

Sweet video! I'm going to try this out on transparent lancer mags to see what fun colors I can get!

I never thought of this. Great video!

Those came out great ... good job bud , thanks for sharing.

Purple is one of my least favorite colors, but when you started pulling those small parts out of the dye they looked good. Really good. I was surprised they got that dark without using more dye. You could just brush the dye on like paint but it would be uneven and look bad. A few drops of dye on a Q-tip would probably cover deep scratches almost instantly. If you try it you might want to mask off the surrounding area with tape so you don't make a big dark spot.

I like the Purple Rain magazines. Prince would be proud of you.

AWESOME!!! Dude i need some red ones for my new build!!! Gonna try this when I get back from the gun show in a couple of weeks, great vid man!!!

EXCELLENT IDEA!!! I SEE SOME CUSTOM MAGS IN MY FUTURE

That turned out Beautiful

Thanks, great video! This worked perfect for us!

start a GO-FUND-ME page to raise money for a larger rinse pot

my favorite color but I would have gone with the light purple, I'm so excited about this!

I built a black with red accented AR pistol that I call my 'Black Widow' I dyed my mags RIT flame red and used some black widow spider graphics on them... Looks fantastic! Thanks for the dying idea.

that looks really good

They look beautiful

Great idea! Thanks for posting this.

Great job! Enjoyed it!

Not the color I'd choose, but they turned out very well indeed.

I dyed some Tango Down FDE mag bases to black. First go round with 1/2 boiling water & 1/2 Rit liquid black dye produced pieces looking like OD green. This was after 30 minutes and occasional stirring. Second go round was with the remaining full strength black dye, using a microwave to heat the dye, repeating the cycle several times over nearly two hours. They finally came out black. Conclusion is that the density/hardness of the polymer affects how quickly and deeply the piece takes the full color of the dye. Mag bases can lead a tough life, so I suspect these pieces were relatively hard.

Sweet, good job man, I'm gonna dye my phone case now lol :) very cool :)

Pretty awesome 👍👍

That's awesome. I'm assuming it would work on the stocks and hand gaurds as well.

I love this. This is the real example of being tacticool.

Those Magpul caps helps with storing loaded magazine. My pmags are 100% reliable after 2.5 years of storage with those caps. I guess you dont need them if you dont store with pmags. Great video BTW. I am going to dye some of my polymer mags with red to match my range rifle.

Super good video.

I am interested in the 6 month followup. Has the color stayed fast? Rubbed or bled off on your hands in use? How deeply did the dye impregnate? Do scratches show up sand? Inquiring minds want to know!

Do some tie-dye ones!

Dude that is a great looking rifle chrome n purple hell yea !!!

awesome video dude

Nice video. Thank you. How deep into the polymer does the dye go? Will normal wear expose the original color?

ah man! I seriously want some of these in super dooper lime green!

Cool idea, Jen from Girls Like Guns Too would love those mags:))

Thats a pretty cool trick.

that is pretty cool

Stainless steel? I'll use whichever damn pot I want to dye my weapons in!! Huh, what's that? Honey? Oh, never mind..........

I've got a pastel pink Walther p22 I want to do purple. I know disassembling the frame would be best but do ya think I could jus blow out the water and oil it afterwards? Thanks, great video!

Those mags look great. Have you, or anyone else, tried dying the black magazines?

I just did this to a fde handguard. I used a little more water by accident and used six caps of black dye. The guard came out with a matte color. It isn’t perfect but I think it will be fine with the build I am doing. Since I needed black, if I don’t like it, I can always go buy a new one.

Very cool. Might work better than cerakote? I might try to do that with a polymer reciever

so if you do this to the polymer 80 gun will it still function properly, great video thanks

I found the lancer clear purple mags for cheap but those are really cool it's like eggs on Easter

I have one o those zombie green lowers from GWACS Armory, the old Calvary Arms design. Just what I need to set it off.

That's awesome

Cool way to personalize and or colour code your magazines....

Royal Purple mags for the King's AR 15....LOL I have a couple 40 rd Magpul mags in "white". Guess I need to find some Rit dye in FDE and OD green. FWIW this would be a good way to mark mags for different ammo types and cals.

Have you ever tried to match FDE COLOR on the sand mags ? Have not tried dying mags yet. Rit dye told me to use " rit dye and more" suppose to be dye for polymers.they told me chocolate brown was the same as FDE ... did not know if anyone had any luck with it .... great video 😊

Is there a difference between the powder dye and the liquid or do they both do the same job equally as good ?

what type of rit dye did you use? fabric, or for acrylics?

Coming from a foodie perspective, a sous vide immersion circulator would work beautifully for this. Of course you would need a dedicated unit that is never used for food, but essentially what it is is a device that is immersed partially in your container of water and has a heating element and impeller to circulate the water and hold it at a constant, uniform temperature. Combine this with some kind of hangers to suspend the parts in the pot, and you have the perfect setup for dyeing polymer parts. No stirring or turning required.

Nice video! Might just do this! Got alot more hexmags than pmags? You think it'll still work?

Wow, they came out great. How do they hold up with use?

You should get sand-colored furniture (grip and stock) for that build, and dye them to match the mags That would REALLY look spiffy!

Wow!!!

Very cool

Drying station...lol...( a couple paper towels on a stove..)..love it..

It's an awesome color turned out, saturated! If it were same easy to colored black PMAG to FDE, for example, it would be great. But there are no miracles in the world... ;)

Have you tried any other mag. Like the hexmags. I have hexmags that I want to change there color

🤔 I wonder if this would work on the white Sig p320 grip modules!

I love that

I cooked pancakes on my channel once but this cooking is more my style! :)

Sweet

I'm guessing the dye to water ration would ve on the bottle on rit website?

Nice!

Now I'm hungry, thanks alot!

What would be a good color to make a Fakelite color for FDE furniture?

So what did you do with the pans and leftover liquid after they cooled down?

The heat won't expand the plastic? Also, could I do this with an angled foregrip?

That's a sick ass purple. Color varies based on color of the parts you start with. If parts are black it don't work well

Interesting video. Iv just finished my first build and been looking at colors, unfortunately cerakote doesn't offer a blue that matches so I think I have to get it anodized. Which iv seen videos but don't trust myself esp on my 1st one lol

I used to do this with lacrosse sticks. If you put hot glue on it, you can dye it in multiple colors. I might try this to be able to tell immediately between my 300BLK and 5.56. Draw on them with hot glue and write 300 or 556 etc. Or, you can make your own camouflage pattern!

This is a very good tutorial. Will this work with Translucent plastic? In the future, I am planning on purchasing G1 Transformer weapons in Translucent Plastic. Please let me know. Thank you.