IW01 tx too boring looking? Here's an easy mod...

Bird · Post by **Bird** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 2:41 pm

I was looking at my boring old IW01 tx and thinking about how I could color coordinate it with the cars that I use it with... my iwaver with the red and white Autoscale Skyline, and my two epochs, both red...

So, I started thinking...

"Maybe that white plastic that the wheel, knobs, and switch are made of is dyeable..."

So, after a trip to the grocery store to pick up some scarlet #5 Rit dye, I carefully broke down the tx while the water came to a boil... put all of the white pieces into the boiling scarlet liquid, and 5 minutes later...

Dope, aint it? I imagine that this can be done with any color of Rit dye that you would want to use... I also imagine that the stuff on the newer, gray cased IW01 tx is made of the same easily dyed plastic... I'll find out for sure in a few weeks when I get another IW01...

crusty · Post by **crusty** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:17 pm

Looking pimp

Sdog · Post by **Sdog** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 8:05 pm

The shit didn't melt???

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:32 pm

does the dye rub off at all?

do the clear stuff now

Post by **CaboWabo** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:33 pm

shit no, I remember that dye from way back in my 1:10 days.
it's like dying easter eggs dude, you'll have a little fun doing it. lol

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:39 pm

hehe! my housemate's gonna get a surprise come easter when a bunch of wheels are floating around with the eggs!

Post by **CaboWabo** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:43 pm

just wait till you start to tie dye his work shirts.
groovy baby.

Bird · Post by **Bird** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:47 pm

CaboWabo wrote:shit no, I remember that dye from way back in my 1:10 days.

I was the ghetto version of that back in my early 1/10th days... my old traxxas buggy is still to this day sporting all of the suspension and shit(early traxxas shit had white parts) dyed green (very weakly, I might add) with food coloring lol... I need to break THAT down and pimp it out with the good stuff...

@sdog... lol no the shit didn't melt... cracka ass cracka.