# Dye BigYo?

**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dye-bigyo/1158
**Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance
**Created:** [March 21, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dye-bigyo/1158 "2009-03-21T20:02:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![EvanB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90ced4/32.png) [@EvanB](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/EvanB)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dye-bigyo/1158/1 "2009-03-21T20:02:17Z")

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think I could? And how?

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### Author: ![Samad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/samad/32/19_2.png) [@Samad](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Samad)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dye-bigyo/1158/2 "2009-03-21T20:03:03Z")

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Yeah, I suppose you could. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nanowe1tG9g](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nanowe1tG9g)

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### Author: ![Kim-Lan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/kim-lan/32/16_2.png) [@Kim-Lan](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Kim-Lan)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2009, 8:54pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dye-bigyo/1158/3 "2009-03-21T20:54:57Z")

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A couple of useful topics:

[http://www.yoyonation.com/talk/index.php/topic,42667.0.html](http://www.yoyonation.com/talk/index.php/topic,42667.0.html)  
[http://www.yoyonation.com/talk/index.php/topic,11556.0.html](http://www.yoyonation.com/talk/index.php/topic,11556.0.html)

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### Author: ![Batryn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/batryn/32/78_2.png) [@Batryn](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Batryn)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dye-bigyo/1158/4 "2009-03-22T02:21:14Z")

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I want to do it… but how much of the ingredients, and what do you do about the rims/outside??? For the second link.

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### Author: ![RandyJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9e5f3/32.png) [@RandyJ](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/RandyJ)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dye-bigyo/1158/5 "2009-03-23T19:47:21Z")

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The amount of ingredients aren’t too important, you just don’t want to use too much acetone. I’d usually use a package of rit dye and equal parts acetone/water. The time varies a lot depending on what type of plastic the yoyo is. Just check on it regularly.

When you say rims, do you mean metal rims or rubbery(aqua, tm, etc.) rims? For metal rims, you don’t have to do anything they’ll be fine. Yoyos with rubber rims are tricky to dye, their rims will absorb the color before the plastic, and if you’re using acetone there is a chance the rubber will melt. So, you can dye rubber rims very easily, but you have to be careful not to melt them if you’re using acetone(you can dye without acetone, it just takes a very long time).

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### Author: ![wiibit](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/wiibit/32/194_2.png) [@wiibit](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/wiibit)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dye-bigyo/1158/6 "2009-08-25T18:19:58Z")

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alot of dye

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### Author: ![EvanB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90ced4/32.png) [@EvanB](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/EvanB)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dye-bigyo/1158/7 "2009-08-25T18:40:53Z")

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> [@wiibit](#):
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> alot of dye

Please don’t bring up old posts, I made this post several MONTHS ago and has served it purpose. Necros spam the boards with old topics.