Markell Posted August 31, 2004 Report Share Posted August 31, 2004 What can I use to mix plastic coloring in? I am not using it with plastic nor am I heating it. I want to put some type of liquid in a cup and add plastic coloring to it. I want the liquid to take on the color of the coloring like it does in plastic. I understand that plastic coloring is oil based and would assume that some type of oil would be used. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsworms Posted August 31, 2004 Report Share Posted August 31, 2004 Not real sure it would take on the color that you're looking for without the heat. When you put color in cool plastisol and mix it.......it looks nothing like the end product. As it gets hot, it begins to darken and take on the color more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delw Posted August 31, 2004 Report Share Posted August 31, 2004 I think I might understand what your saying. I have been playing with mixing colors for about 8-10 months now. the medium you use is softener. softener is clear. However you will need a 3 roll mill to mix the medium(softener) and color together other wise it will not mix at all. I am assuming your going to use a powder? If your thinking of using colors already mixed you still use softener. however you still need a three roll mill to mix the colors so they dont settle. We have done a tremendous amount of research in colors for the last 8-10 months trying to come up with colors we want to sell taht will not settle like the colors avail out there now. We have tried about every way of mixing you can imagine and nothing and I mean nothing works, we basically took over where calhoun plastics stopped. Three rolled mills are avail but they are extreamly expensive 5k-20k for a used one in so so shape and these are very small units. We are in the process of building one just for mixing colors. Oh I should say my wife April has done 90% of the color research and playing. she just makes me do the dirty work. Delw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markell Posted August 31, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2004 The softener idea should be the ticket. Alsworms, I ran into that this week I thought I had my recipe wrong. Thanks guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
