Home made UV dyes

[aka_GK]

mlwood, I would like to purchase a bottle of Blue dye, so I have 2 question for ya:
1. Can deep blue color be achieved using this dye?
2. Do you ship to Russia?

[ButtSprinkles]

Still haven't received my red dye...

Was mine the one that broke in the post or something?

Ordered on Jan 1, 2010

[NaeKuh]

Takes a while to arrive.

So have patience..

But it will be well worth it.

I still got enough from my sample for probably 15-20 reflushes.

[ButtSprinkles]

Takes a while to arrive.

So have patience..

But it will be well worth it.

I still got enough from my sample for probably 15-20 reflushes.

Yeah, I suppose PPCs has me spoiled. I usually only wait 2-3 days for them.
But, I digress, it looks like cool stuff, so I shall wait.

[mlwood37]

ButtSprinkles whats your order no. even though you orderd on the first chances are it wasnt sent till the 2nd and with the adverse wather condiction over here it may take a little longer. Normal delivery is 7 to 10 working days to USA i cannot make it any faster as this is the only option i have at our post office.

The only Dye 2ml that will do lots of loops is the clear blue as in loads the rest of the 2ml do upto 5 depending on the ammount used.

as for dark blue i do have a dark blue but its still not out of testing (im leaving all dark colours for 1 year in total for testing). youll have to wait if you would like a real dark blue sorry..

and yes i can ship to russia as long as its not illgal to ship there. I know brazil its illgal to ship dyes to. Ill get a price put up for Russia tommorw for post and packing.

Please dont forget you can review on the site as well so any one thats has receved a syes if you get the cahnce could you write a little review on the dye you got it would help alot.

Im filling some orders for some shops as well now who have placed orders.

[4ddiction]

Im still waiting on my dye and i placed an order on Dec. 30th. Hopefully it will be here anytime soon.

[mlwood37]

I presume you guy are in the USA as belgum , France , Germany, all receved theres all ready.

Ill have to put up a warning about delivery times i think to the USA.

Cheking My recepts . all orders on the 31 dec 2009 were sent via royal mail air mail letters at a cost of £2.70 each and some were sent to USA on 2nd Jan 2010 again the same price. and im only charging £2.50 for post and packing lol. hahahaha

Guys at the time airoplanes were grounded in the UK from many majour air ports due to the adverse weather condictions so this maybe why they are late ill double check in the monring but this could be the reason why. A bit of snow seems to stop UK dead.

[mlwood37]

Thought i might throw this in to the mix a little what do you guys think of Silver Antimicrobial Tubing. I might order some in and start selling this as well as you will not need a kill coil or any sort of anti bactrial liquid. Literly you just pour in you water and go.

Characteristics: Silver ion antimicrobial coating inhibits microorganism growth. Not temperature sensitive. Long life, chemically resistant, nontoxic. Translucent silver.
Certification: NSF Standard 51, FDA approved for food contact.
Temperature range: –47 to 160°F (–44 to 71°C)

I double checked with factory and the temps it can handle are above the stated range upto 95°C

The only problem is price but again in keeping with the idear behind the dyes that it will cost effective.

This will reduce you chem balance.

[ButtSprinkles]

mlwood order no. is 100101-210735-3449

that silver stuff seems pretty cool, yeah. but doesn't tygon already do something like that?

[mlwood37]

yeh its tygon im going to be ordering some in but its not cheap but 1/2 meter in any look is better than a kill coil or biocide.

Ive checked and double checked you order it has gone out on the date stated 02 Jan 2010.
The stated time by royal mail say 7 to 14 days but it normaly only takes 7 days how ever the way the waether is over here i would have still thought you would have it now as its 12 days since it was sent.
Give it till the week end and if nothing has come let me know and ill resend the order on monday and no cost to your self.

full specs of tubing here (pricing subject to change)

[4ddiction]

I just got the package. Its all safe and sound now i gotta wait for my new blocks to come in so i can flush, and set a new loop up!

[mlwood37]

Due to one of the vials smashing in the post i have new 5ml dropper bottles in there place how ever due to the bottles being more expensive the price has had to do up a little. by 51p ill need to allso check post and packing as here in the uk its not the wights so much but allso the width of the letter being sent.

Allso with this the price of the new 10ml bottles has come down as i manged to get the price down on the 10ml bottles.

Due to me only just starting up these changes will happen and hopefully every thing is sorted now.

ATM im still running at a loss and dont expect to recover any of this and dont care tbh.

10% Discount code : WCDWS2010

To all XS users

Allso if any one runs a web site and would like to review the dyes please let me know ill be happy to send out sample's after looking at you site.

[Elpy]

Allright I received my UV clear and blue dyes from mlwood safely without any accidents ^^. Cant test in the loop yet but I couldnt resist testing them a bit. Here are my results.

Testing 0,15l (150ml) of distilled water in a normal drinking glass.

0 drops of Mayhem's blue dye


1 drop of Mayhem's blue dye


2 drops of Mayhem's blue dye


3 drops of Mayhem's blue dye


If rougly counted how much it would take to make 1 litre of coolant with those colors.
1 litre of "1 drop" water = 6,5 drops
2 litre of "2 drops" water = 13 drops
3 litre of "3 drops" water = 19,5 drops

No matter how you think, that 19,5 drops would seem a bit extreme since the instructions on the website say "max 5 drops per litre". Mlwood, is the blue really just that light or is there something funny with my test?

Tbh, the colors with 2 and 3 drops are around the area what I'd like my liquid to look like but both have over 2x the amount of dye your instructions suggest.

[Seufari]

just placed my order for UV blue, blue and UV green...

Can't wait...

[WrigleyVillain]

Thanks for pix elpy, more please. Will certainly share some when my sample arrives.

[Alien Grey]

Allright I received my UV clear and blue dyes from mlwood safely without any accidents ^^. Cant test in the loop yet but I couldnt resist testing them a bit. Here are my results.

Testing 0,15l (150ml) of distilled water in a normal drinking glass.

0 drops of Mayhem's blue dye


1 drop of Mayhem's blue dye


2 drops of Mayhem's blue dye


3 drops of Mayhem's blue dye


If rougly counted how much it would take to make 1 litre of coolant with those colors.
1 litre of "1 drop" water = 6,5 drops
2 litre of "2 drops" water = 13 drops
3 litre of "3 drops" water = 19,5 drops

No matter how you think, that 19,5 drops would seem a bit extreme since the instructions on the website say "max 5 drops per litre". Mlwood, is the blue really just that light or is there something funny with my test?

Tbh, the colors with 2 and 3 drops are around the area what I'd like my liquid to look like but both have over 2x the amount of dye your instructions suggest.

You think that you've got to use more than you should have to use.

I've got to use 25 drops in 500ml to have a good green color and a light glow with my 2 cold cathode UV lights. I'm currently using 40 drops and still don't have the glow I would like it to be.

The color is good enough for me but the UV glow is to weak if you know that my cable sleeves glow like bright lights and the white paper next to my computer glows and also my ceiling.

[mlwood37]

Allright I received my UV clear and blue dyes from mlwood safely without any accidents ^^. Cant test in the loop yet but I couldnt resist testing them a bit. Here are my results.


If rougly counted how much it would take to make 1 litre of coolant with those colors.
1 litre of "1 drop" water = 6,5 drops
2 litre of "2 drops" water = 13 drops
3 litre of "3 drops" water = 19,5 drops

No matter how you think, that 19,5 drops would seem a bit extreme since the instructions on the website say "max 5 drops per litre". Mlwood, is the blue really just that light or is there something funny with my test?

Tbh, the colors with 2 and 3 drops are around the area what I'd like my liquid to look like but both have over 2x the amount of dye your instructions suggest.

Hi there the blue is a light blue due to its nature the dark blue should be out of test with in the next week or so. I had to test the dark blue for build up on metal for longer as i what to make shure it has no adverse effects. You will be fine upto 3 mls per ltr of the light blue. I can send you out a new sample of the dark blue for you to compaire against in in the next week if you remind me.

Seemingly as im passing these dyes through the new filter system i do seem to be losing some of the orignal colour i will get this sorted.

Atm the filter is 4 pass (meaning 4 filters) ill drop it down to two and check results my self to see how they go.

The green UV is the weekest dye out of them all dye to its nature but again im going to combat this problem as weve talked about agray buy adding more lumance wich is comming from china.

If any one is not happy with there order just let me know and ill refund or replace. New dyes will be comming out of test (stronger coulours over the weeks) just need to make sure there perfect before i sell them. I dont what any one comming back saying OMG youve killed my system ... Allso will check my filtering process as well.

[mlwood37]

from left to right 1 drop , 2 drops , 3 drops




You may understand why im letting the test run longer as even 1 drop is mental. Allso a note will be that these are that dark the blue UV if added may now show up that well.

[mlwood37]

1/2 drop of blue 2 (darker Blue) , 2 drop of UV clear Blue.

Under UV light.

Just taken



I do allso have under test Blue 3 wich is even stronger but that will be a while before its shown.

The Green as well (none UV green) i have wich is under test is just as strong.

going to add i now bought a real black light becuase i blew my cold cathods up. So the results under UV may not be the same.

Allso recommend spec from the maker is this ->

250g treats between 5,000 - 25,000 litres of water.

I put 250g into 2 ltr's of fluid.

[Alien Grey]

Something like the glow with your UV Blue is what I would like with my UV Green dye. That's the glow I'm talking about.

With 25 drops (1ml) and 500ml distilled water the color is strong enough for me. It just needs more glow with UV light and I hope you can do that when your UV dye arrives from China.

[Elpy]

from left to right 1 drop , 2 drops , 3 drops

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You may understand why im letting the test run longer as even 1 drop is mental. Allso a note will be that these are that dark the blue UV if added may now show up that well.

. Now thats dark! Looks like black to my eyes.

So if you will switch the 4-pass system to 2-pass next week, would this mean that in theory the light blue should be a bit stronger as well? If so, I would have great interest to test both the darker blue and the 2-pass light blue as well. By then I will also have a UV cathode as well so I can test both blue's with UV. I'll have to set up my camera a bit better then as well.

[mlwood37]

I think with the light blue i may just let that sell off what i have and switch to dark blue. I need to check what the dark colours looks like after its been though the filters.

[ButtSprinkles]

Hey, mlwood, I got the dye. And well... I like it. I believe you have a repeat customer now.



Casualty of war. :P

[mlwood37]

ButtSprinkles looking good mate. Like it. might have to start adding gloves with these dyes. dont worry i look like that all the time. it comes off after a day or so.

Oky sticking the what i whated to do to the shop im now going to add new products that are being imported direct from china.

I soon start selling Pigments and mainly Glow in the dark ones.

Pic Below . these were charged for 1 min under UV light and will last upto 5 hours (personly about 1 hour with a good glow)



The powders Cannot be used in water cooling set ups But are mainly for adding to varnish, paints, glues, plastics and kids love it on there face so that you can now go a little more mental on you painting skills.

All you simply do if add the pigments to the fluid you would like and then paint it on. once dyed and you may need to do a second coat to get a real good effect.

The Glow can be charged with UV light (words best) or normal light.

[mlwood37]

this is the new darker BLue.

1 drop Only out of a 5ml bottle direct into a 1 Ltr bottle then poured into the glass.

This give a lovly blue effect i personly wold not use more than 1 drop per 1 ltr. so your best off pre mixing this before hand as i can honisly say this is the most powfull dye i have ever made.



Once my supplyer gets the correct codes that he forgot to put down this will be the new blue going up on site.

Any one who has bought blue in the past and would like the stronger blue as a replacement just let me know once its up for sale and ill send you a 2ml vial of it (trust me 2mls is way more than enough).