Thread: Mark-out dye

I purchased 500ml of blue printers ink from a printer 30 years ago and it is still going. You don't need to mix it with anything just paint on thinly and it will dry on 20 seconds
JIm Runciman
Apprentice

Personally I went down to the local engineering store, paid my 40 bucks, got my Dy-mark and my change ... plus a bunch of ubiquitous catalogues they always seem to have on their counter, came home and got on with using it. Yes it's over-priced but unless you have an alternative at hand, not worth screwing around with anything else. You schmoodge it on, make your lines, and go about destroying a perfectly good piece of metal. I reckon for domestic use 1 litre of the stuff should last, oh about 4 generations, 5 if you go easy on the applications! That's about 10 bucks a generation, not a biggie

Originally Posted by Old-Biker-UK

The trouble with mixing just the dye powder with meths is that there is no medium to hold it on to the stock being marked out. Add a bit of shellac polish to the mix.
I made my own, Aniline dye (black, blue, red - whatever), meths & shellac flakes.
Made up about 500ml 25 years ago ,still going, when the bottle gets low, just add more meths.

Mark

Mark,
Yep that's the problem it don't stick very well. Never thought of shellac though .
I'll remember that for when my 1 litre of DyMark layout stain runs out in the year 4050. who cares then,,, I definitely won't be around LOL.

Kev