Best way to color plastic sunglasses?
TL;DR I have a few hundred pairs of plastic sunglasses in different colors. I want to color them black. What is the best way to do this? Backstory: I've been wearing the same cheap, black plastic sunglasses since 2008. Not the exact same pair, but the same model. They just fit my massive noggin, y'know? Anyway, I bought my first pair in 2008, and they broke a few months later. I went back to the same store and bought another pair. Repeat every few months until the 20-teens when the store stopped carrying that particular pair. Not to be deterred, I found an eBay seller who would sell them to me in bulk, so I bought 60 pairs in 2014ish. That lasted me until last summer when I broke my very last pair. Since then, I've been looking for the same sunglasses, feeling like a part of me is missing. Every once in a while I'd pop the model into Google to see what comes up. Always nothing. Until last week... I randomly found a wholesaler who was selling my sunglasses for $4 per DOZEN(!). The only issue being, each dozen was an assortment of colors, including two black pair. No worries. Even if I only use the black pairs, that's still $2/pair. So I ordered 24 dozen, only to find out when they arrived, there was no black in each dozen. There was yellow. I reached out to the seller, and they apologized, said I could keep them, and issued me a refund. So now I have 576 non-black pairs of sunglasses. Instead of letting them go to waste, I'm wondering if there is a way to paint/dye/color them black in a safe and durable way? submitted by /u/BostonDrivingIsWorse [link] [comments]
TL;DR I have a few hundred pairs of plastic sunglasses in different colors. I want to color them black. What is the best way to do this?
Backstory: I've been wearing the same cheap, black plastic sunglasses since 2008. Not the exact same pair, but the same model. They just fit my massive noggin, y'know?
Anyway, I bought my first pair in 2008, and they broke a few months later. I went back to the same store and bought another pair. Repeat every few months until the 20-teens when the store stopped carrying that particular pair.
Not to be deterred, I found an eBay seller who would sell them to me in bulk, so I bought 60 pairs in 2014ish. That lasted me until last summer when I broke my very last pair. Since then, I've been looking for the same sunglasses, feeling like a part of me is missing. Every once in a while I'd pop the model into Google to see what comes up. Always nothing. Until last week...
I randomly found a wholesaler who was selling my sunglasses for $4 per DOZEN(!). The only issue being, each dozen was an assortment of colors, including two black pair. No worries. Even if I only use the black pairs, that's still $2/pair. So I ordered 24 dozen, only to find out when they arrived, there was no black in each dozen. There was yellow.
I reached out to the seller, and they apologized, said I could keep them, and issued me a refund. So now I have 576 non-black pairs of sunglasses.
Instead of letting them go to waste, I'm wondering if there is a way to paint/dye/color them black in a safe and durable way?
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