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| | | MotorMac | | Jupiter |  |  | | Reg. Date | : | 29/08/2010 | | Posts | : | 1,790 | | Location | : | Nor Cal, United States |
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| | Posted : 05 Feb 2018 - 02:38 Post title : How to restore faded black nylon kit bags | | | My nylon tail bag - originally a range bag from Bulldog - was fading fast from black to a sick purple tint.
Experimented with a variety of inks, dyes, even tried a black felt pen. Nothing works on nylon (or polyester), so I started drilling around the web looking for suggestions. All led to using Rit Dye dissolved in a vat of boiling water (mostly for clothing), but that's just not an option.
One useful - and true - solution was to use a spray-on waterproofing like Scotchgard to darken faded nylon. A friend treated his black nylon jacket with Scotchgard and it came out looking quite good.
As I was about to go get some, it dawned on me that I already had some Krylon Fusion spray paint for plastics, and sure enough it bonds to nylon. Masked-off patches, straps and hardware, then squirted the thing. Turned out like new, dried quick, thin coat, no ill effects. Worked so well, I thought I'd pass it along.
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| | | Dags | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 01/11/2013 | | Posts | : | 468 | | Location | : | N.S.W, Australia |
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| | Posted : 05 Feb 2018 - 04:39 Post title : Re: How to restore faded black nylon kit bags (Re: MotorMac) | | |
MotorMac wrote:
My nylon tail bag - originally a range bag from Bulldog - was fading fast from black to a sick purple tint. |
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I've also got one of those  sick purple tinted bags, I'll look into that option, cheers. 
|  Dags
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| | | MotorMac | | Jupiter | | | | Reg. Date | : | 29/08/2010 | | Posts | : | 1,790 | | Location | : | Nor Cal, United States |
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| | Posted : 16 Apr 2022 - 00:52 Post title : Re: How to restore faded black nylon kit bags (Re: Dags) | | | Dags hasn't been here in nearly 6 months, hope he's high and dry out there.....
FWIW, just gave my tailbag a quick touchup with this stuff after posting in 2018.
Safe to say it works, and works well.
Replacing the sun-bleached USA patch. Bag was fine, just turning a bit gray on top.
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