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Old 11-30-2007, 09:42 PM
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Default Re: Black turns bronzy black

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Originally Posted by blackcote View Post
acidrain ALWAYS gives excellent advice, but this statement I have to disagree with. your ideal temp depends on a number of factors from my experience. Right now we're running 70-72 degrees at 6ASF and having no problems, in fact if we go down to 68-70 we start having dye absorbtion problems (I assume becuase pore size is too small, but that's just a guess) It sounds that if your losing dye in the sealer your pore size is definately too big. So lowering the ano temp should help. Definately heat the dye up. it helps get it down into the pores it seems. If you still decide to send it out to get done, you have a pm.
I always appreciate the opinions of my highly respected colleagues.
Could be the difference in our thermometers. I have several of the cheap Harbor Freight thermos... they all seem to read differently .
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