N4768Z
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Flying High Again
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Post by N4768Z on Apr 21, 2010 4:27:22 GMT 1
Has anyone ever tried to color or dye the rubber bands? I know that you can dye the plastic rims for RC trucks and stuff. I've seen white rims dyed black. Maybe a sharpie?
I have some extra, I may try this. Would be nice to have red rubber bands to make them a little less visible.
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Post by Dillzio on Apr 21, 2010 7:55:25 GMT 1
The only safe colorant I can think of is a concentrated water based dye. Anything solvent based (even from a texta) will risk degrading (or accelerating the degradation of) the rubber bands.
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Post by tombates on Jun 20, 2010 15:10:51 GMT 1
I'm not sure how it's going to hold up but yesterday I colored some rubber bands with red and green felt tip pens, the permanent type. I plan on using them on LiPo's to mark them as charged, green and discharged, red. I think it will make it easier for me to not loose track of them. I'll try to update this after they've been used for a while.
Tom
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Post by tombates on Jul 19, 2010 18:16:53 GMT 1
So far, so good. They seem to be holding up well, I use them to keep track of charged, discharged batteries.
Tom
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Post by duckycub on Aug 24, 2010 22:03:48 GMT 1
I used a green sharpie to color mine. Haven't noticed anything damaging to the rubber bands, and it looks a lot better. I'm going to try ink next - get a fountain pen ink well and see how that works.
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Post by higgsbosonman on Aug 25, 2010 15:00:32 GMT 1
couldn't you just go to office depot and buy a box of colored rubber bands? all there doing is going around batterys, not on the wing, so they don't have to be very big.
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akbushpilot
Flight lieutenant
P.I.C. (PILOT IN COMMAND)
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Post by akbushpilot on Nov 2, 2010 6:45:49 GMT 1
why do we humans have to make everything soo hard??
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Post by Legot on Nov 2, 2010 7:49:51 GMT 1
+1
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