Anyone used Rit dye (or something other than paint) to take grey furniture (plastic and rubber on my B5 SOPMOD) and make it black?  Wondering if a long, long bath in black Rit dye would work.

Same question for FDE (magpul grips)

Thanks




ETA I see it will work with the FDE, and probably the grey.  Wondering if anyone had died rubber (buttpad on B5 stock) and how long I should leave the parts in.  I'm seeing 2 hours or so on various other posts.  I want to avoid the "purple" look of not leaving it in long enough, but I've seen a post of two where leaving it in for a long time (8 hours, the guy forgot about his parts....) made it a MUCH darker shade of black than standard (magpul) stuff.

Personally I would dye the stock, as its plastic and people have had good success with RIT dye on plastic pieces, and just leave the rubber pad gray. It wont be that noticeable, and you wont risk having it not exactly color matched, if that is something that will bother you going forward.

Yep, worked great!!!!  Grey stock now totally black, just about perfect match to VLTOR/Magpul black, almost kinda a satin-y sheen, three rit dye packs in simmering water + white vinegar for about 45 mins.  Grey rubber buttpad, no effect whatsoever, ha.  I had been trying to trade my stock on the EE with no bites, didn't want to buy a new one.  $4.98 Wok at Wal-mart + $2.68 per pack of rit dye + free white vinegar from my pantry + very confused looks from my kids + very questionable look from my wife when i took over her stove = black B5 stock.  

I'll post before and after pics if anyone cares, if it would help anyone else out.  I'm going to do an FDE MOE grip next, had I remembered at the time I would have done it alongside the B5.

I was reading about some yo-yo (yes, yo-yo) collector dying various plastics, and he uses acetone along with rit dye on certain types of polymers.  Had never heard of that before but I guess on certain types of polymers the acetone is what opens up the pores.