help finding product

[la Huerta]

would anyone know where i could get the aussi version of these products, they are used by antique restorers and refinishers, i have tryed to find similar products here but with no luck ...here is he web link transtints (http://www.targetcoatings.com/products/dyes/trans.html)

[la Huerta]

i just looked on the u bueat sitte , there are water dys there , would these be similar.

[Grant_33]

The products shown on that link are based on metal complex dyes with a "special solvent".

Many of the Australian paint companies make variously named products that are a solution of metal complex dyes in a solvent blend of some kind, with perhaps a little bit of nitrocellulose or similar binder to prevent grain raising.

Ask the techincal guys at a paint manufacturer if they have a product based on the above.

Now the catch. Over the years I have seen people do lots of strange things with a dye stain that I am, er, associated with. In all that time I've never seen it mixed with water. I am going to try that tomorrow morning! Most of the products I have seen on the market will by definition mix with lacquers and shellac. When added to something like acetone and mixed with oils they will probably work too (but this would vary depending on each companies formula). The addition limits for oil and oil based products make sense too. The metal complex dyes will only tolerate so much of that sort of stuff, no matter how much acetone or whatever you mix with them,


I may add a few ideas to this after I play with the stain and water but would humbly suggest you ask for a chemist type at your friendly local paint manufacturer and see if they have a metal complex dye in solvent type product.

Grant