Dylon dying lasered keycaps to black blanks?

[Ostrich]

Hello pals,

I read a bit about dylon dying on here.
As I have the bad habit of looking at the keys while touch typing from time to time I wanted to get blank ISO keycaps for my Filco but I don't want to pay via credit card at Corus Keyboards. So I thought why not dye spare white pbt lasered caps black.
Has anyone of you attempted this before? I am curious what the outcome would look like... Will it result in true blanks or some weird black on black caps?
Thank you for input on experiences about this

[guk]

Black on black, at least that's what idye poly got me as a result. Actually does looks quite good.

[scottc]

Sounds quite cool guk, do you have any pictures handy?

[guk]

Should give an idea of what it looks like.

[Ostrich]

Thanks, guk!
Looks interesting nonetheless, though...

[shreebles]

rrreaaallly good. Maybe it's time to change up my Novatouch and make it more Realforce-like

[scottc]

They look great! I might have to try that...

[andrewjoy]

They look like black on black dyesubs a bit ! May have to give that a go.

[Ray]

Unlike dyesub they look bumpy. But still nice.
They are Cherry lasered PBT, eh?

[shreebles]

Must be.

ABS doesn't dye really well, nor does it take heat well. But I heard some people had success by adding Acetone to the dye.

But either way, those are thin lasered Cherry keycaps. And those only exist in PBT.

[guk]

Cherry PBT.

[shreebles]

Whoops. Edited.

[nocturalowl]

Hi, don't mean to hi jack this thread. But i have newbie question related to dying a keycaps.
What i want to ask is this capslock safe for dying?

My concern is that capslock key have a led pass through plastic part.
Will that plastic melt if i dying it with pbt temperature? Thanks before.

[Matt_]

It's probably polycarbonate, which has a lower melting point than both PBT and ABS, if I'm not mistaken (around 140°C).

[andrewjoy]

is it glued in , if its glued may be abel to remove it and replace later

[nocturalowl]

Thanks guys for your answer. Will figure it out if it's glued in place when i get the caps ( still on shipping proccess )

There one more thing i really want to ask. If i dye those caps using grey color will the blue dye sub legend turn into grey color too?