HVAC - That's the exact red I was hoping for. The bottle says Deep Red. I wonder if this was Caswell's mistake?
Acidrain - I'm sure I had a good connection because the dye took, but I'm not sure what my layer thickness was. It might be a little thin. I used the (720/current)*SA to get the acid time. I'm using the ghetto let'r rip PS method, but I don't think that should effect this color stuff since I'm making nice blacks, and blues from the same batch.
Here's a pic of my parts.
When I made the dye, I only wanted one pint, so I measured out the full contents of the bottle in a graduated cylinder and then divided it by 16. I added that amount (~6.5ml) to my pint of dist. H2o. This trickery might be the source of my problems. Maybe I should mix up the full 2 gallons just to make sure it's right.
Unless, I can play with the PH. I don't have any way of measuring the PH though.