If you need assistance, please send an email to forum at 4hv dot org. To ensure your email is not marked as spam, please include the phrase "4hv help" in the subject line. You can also find assistance via IRC, at irc.shadowworld.net, room #hvcomm.
Support 4hv.org!
Donate:
4hv.org is hosted on a dedicated server. Unfortunately, this server costs and we rely on the help of site members to keep 4hv.org running. Please consider donating. We will place your name on the thanks list and you'll be helping to keep 4hv.org alive and free for everyone. Members whose names appear in red bold have donated recently. Green bold denotes those who have recently donated to keep the server carbon neutral.
Special Thanks To:
Aaron Holmes
Aaron Wheeler
Adam Horden
Alan Scrimgeour
Andre
Andrew Haynes
Anonymous000
asabase
Austin Weil
barney
Barry
Bert Hickman
Bill Kukowski
Blitzorn
Brandon Paradelas
Bruce Bowling
BubeeMike
Byong Park
Cesiumsponge
Chris F.
Chris Hooper
Corey Worthington
Derek Woodroffe
Dalus
Dan Strother
Daniel Davis
Daniel Uhrenholt
datasheetarchive
Dave Billington
Dave Marshall
David F.
Dennis Rogers
drelectrix
Dr. John Gudenas
Dr. Spark
E.TexasTesla
eastvoltresearch
Eirik Taylor
Erik Dyakov
Erlend^SE
Finn Hammer
Firebug24k
GalliumMan
Gary Peterson
George Slade
GhostNull
Gordon Mcknight
Graham Armitage
Grant
GreySoul
Henry H
IamSmooth
In memory of Leo Powning
Jacob Cash
James Howells
James Pawson
Jeff Greenfield
Jeff Thomas
Jesse Frost
Jim Mitchell
jlr134
Joe Mastroianni
John Forcina
John Oberg
John Willcutt
Jon Newcomb
klugesmith
Leslie Wright
Lutz Hoffman
Mads Barnkob
Martin King
Mats Karlsson
Matt Gibson
Matthew Guidry
mbd
Michael D'Angelo
Mikkel
mileswaldron
mister_rf
Neil Foster
Nick de Smith
Nick Soroka
nicklenorp
Nik
Norman Stanley
Patrick Coleman
Paul Brodie
Paul Jordan
Paul Montgomery
Ped
Peter Krogen
Peter Terren
PhilGood
Richard Feldman
Robert Bush
Royce Bailey
Scott Fusare
Scott Newman
smiffy
Stella
Steven Busic
Steve Conner
Steve Jones
Steve Ward
Sulaiman
Thomas Coyle
Thomas A. Wallace
Thomas W
Timo
Torch
Ulf Jonsson
vasil
Vaxian
vladi mazzilli
wastehl
Weston
William Kim
William N.
William Stehl
Wesley Venis
The aforementioned have contributed financially to the continuing triumph of 4hv.org. They are deserving of my most heartfelt thanks.
Registered Member #72
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:29AM
Location: UK St. Albans
Posts: 1659
I have a number of more or less tatty clothes (retired from daily office wear) that I use for gardening and the workshop, and my wife is terrified that I am going to wear some of the less obviously ripped ones outside where I can be seen and recognised. My plan is to use a pen and bleach something like "Calvin Grosse" into a prominent part of them, to make them easier to spot as they come out of the wash so they don't find their way back to the wardrobe.
I don't want to buy "Dygon", and experiments on long-term fabric weakening will take, by definition, a long time. I guess all of the following will kill dye to some extent, but which will be least likely to rot cotton or poly-cotton mix?
a) ordinary hypochlorite bleach b) 30vol (9%) peroxide c) sodium dichloroisocyanurate (baby bottle steriliser) tablets
Registered Member #193
Joined: Fri Feb 17 2006, 07:04AM
Location: sheffield
Posts: 1022
If you just need to make them "distinctive" then I suggest tie-bleaching them (like tie-dye- but with bleach). That way you don't need to do a very good job of trashing the dye so you can use less bleach. Cotton will stand up to bleaching with the 2 chlorine based bleaches, polyester is a little less robust but you don't really have a problem- it should be OK. Peroxide is usually more selective so I guess it would do less damage to the fabric but I don't think the difference is worth making a lot of fuss about. In my experience navy blue dyes bleach to an orangy red colour so you sure will notice the effect. If we were talking about bleaching silk or wool then the chlorine would be a complete non starter. Nylon doesn't like chlorine based bleach either.
(Pointless disclaimer) I haven't tried this sort of thing; but the cotton shirt I splashed with bleach, tried to re dye, failed, bleached the whole lot and finally dyed black is still OK. Your milage may vary. Of course, since the stuff you are bleaching is already a bit trashed, I guess it doesn't matter much if you shorten it's remaining life a bit.
Registered Member #268
Joined: Tue Feb 28 2006, 02:44AM
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 48
I worked in a kitchen for a semester, and we used a fairly weak solution of bleach in hot water to sterilize the dishes. Any clothing I wore there came home with spots. Maybe flicking droplets of dilute standard bleach on the clothes would personalize them without damaging them unduly.
This site is powered by e107, which is released under the GNU GPL License. All work on this site, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License. By submitting any information to this site, you agree that anything submitted will be so licensed. Please read our Disclaimer and Policies page for information on your rights and responsibilities regarding this site.
Bleaching clothes dyes
Maybe flicking droplets of dilute standard bleach on the clothes would personalize them without damaging them unduly.