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Getting my Bill Nye on
    #5175013 - 01/13/06 12:51 AM (18 years, 1 month ago)

I bought a lab coat and some OSHA approved chemical splash laboratory goggles today, for under $20. I'll be wearing them during chem 110 lab sessions.

I underestimated how nerdly I look in them, I need a pocket protector and some pens to put into the breast pocket though.

It's really fun to wear a lab coat. But wearing a t-shirt underneath it looks wierd to me, would a light blue collared shirt look better underneath it?

I'll post a picture tomorrow (I love not having class on fridays.)


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Re: Getting my Bill Nye on [Re: Konnrade]
    #5175307 - 01/13/06 02:17 AM (18 years, 1 month ago)

I think you need to tye dye the lab coat and show them your true colors.


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Re: Getting my Bill Nye on [Re: mycogirl]
    #5175312 - 01/13/06 02:19 AM (18 years, 1 month ago)

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I think you need to tye dye the lab coat and show them your true colors.




Agreed. Tye Dye !!


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Re: Getting my Bill Nye on [Re: Terrapin77]
    #5175321 - 01/13/06 02:25 AM (18 years, 1 month ago)

Actually, that WOULD be awesome. But I'd like to have a nice white one too, I like the way I look in a nice clean white lab coat.

But I think I'll buy another one (them being affordable and all) and tie-dye it. That's quite the awesome idea. I've never tie-died anything before, though. Is it possible to do it without getting rid of all the nice clean creases of the fabric? How would I go about doing this to a lab coat while still preserving it's lovely shape?


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Re: Getting my Bill Nye on [Re: Konnrade]
    #5175347 - 01/13/06 02:39 AM (18 years, 1 month ago)

an iron?


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Re: Getting my Bill Nye on [Re: mycogirl]
    #5175354 - 01/13/06 02:41 AM (18 years, 1 month ago)

Hehe... yeah, that'll work. Silly me :doh:

I wonder how I'd go about making sure the pattern didn't wind up looking crappy, though. I mean I've never tie-died anything before.

Maybe I should just buy the lab coat and then pay somebody to do a good job of it for me. :sherlock:


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Re: Getting my Bill Nye on [Re: Konnrade]
    #5175367 - 01/13/06 02:47 AM (18 years, 1 month ago)

common, you gotta know some hippies somewhere.


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Re: Getting my Bill Nye on [Re: mycogirl]
    #5175372 - 01/13/06 02:50 AM (18 years, 1 month ago)

Not really, no. I haven't done a very good job of meeting people who share my interests in that area :shrug:

Although wearing a tie-dye lab coat couldn't hurt my efforts in that area, eh?  :tongue2:


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Re: Getting my Bill Nye on [Re: Konnrade]
    #5175383 - 01/13/06 02:55 AM (18 years, 1 month ago)

I can tie-die it Bro


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Re: Getting my Bill Nye on [Re: Terrapin77]
    #5175389 - 01/13/06 02:59 AM (18 years, 1 month ago)

How to Tie Dye - Complete Instructions


Study the How to Dye basic recipe first. Make sure you have all the chemicals and supplies you need....Procion MX dyes, urea, sodium carbonate, thin rubber or plastic gloves, measuring cups and spoons, squirt bottles to put the dye solution into for application, rubber bands, dust mask for measuring out dyes, and a bucket for pre-soaking the fabric in sodium carbonate solution. If you don't have everything you need, you can still tie today, and be ready to dye when you get the rest of your equipment! Be sure to pre-wash all clothing to remove invisible finishes that can prevent the dye from getting to the fabric.

Why Tie?

The whole point of tie dyeing is to prevent the dye from reaching the fabric evenly. Any place that the dye can't reach will stay white, or a lighter color, of course. The gradations of color from intense to light can be beautiful. You can accomplish this by folding the fabric, tieing it with string, using rubber bands, etc.

Another reason to tie is that it makes each garment of piece of cloth a small, neat bundle--much easier to handle if you have a lot to do. If you don't tie, but just apply the dye directly, you need more space and can do fewer garments or pieces of fabric at a time.

Ways to Tie

Fold a piece of clothing in vertical pleats, and you'll end up with horizontal stripes. Horizontal pleats result in vertical stripes (more slimming, you know). Diagonal pleats make a nice effect. Stitch a loose basting stitch in any shape you like, then pull the threads tight for another form of tie-dyeing that can have really cool results. For concentric circles, grab the cloth where you want the center to be, and pull, until you've more or less made a long tube of the garment, then apply rubber bands at intervals along the fabric. I also like the "scrunch" pattern, made by crumpling the fabric very evenly, so that ultimately it makes a nice flat disk when held with rubber bands.

For the now-traditional spiral, see the FAQ, How do you tie-dye a spiral pattern?: you lay the garment on a flat smooth surface, smooth out all the wrinkles, then make a small pleat right across where you want the center to be. Grab the very center of that pleat with a clothes pin, and begin to twist. As you twist, pleats appear farther and farther away from the center; as these pleats get too large, split the pleats with your hands, keeping each fold the same height above the table, no more than one to two inches in height.

You should not really need pictures to do the above, because it is all trial and error, anyway. You can't know what works best for you until you try it. However, if you want to see pictures of how to do the ties, check out PROchem's illustrations of tie dye folds, actual photos of a tied spiral at Real Tie Dye, and Rit?'s Virtual spiral (though you'll find the dyeing process much easier if you use fiber reactive dyes such as Procion MX, instead of "all-purpose" dye such as Rit?, which requires that you hold the disk of fabric partially submerged in boiling water for a long time). A more advanced technique for tying is illustrated at The Kind Dyes. Mike Fowler's DVD The Art of Tie-Dye (illustrated at left) shows in great detail how to tie a number of different tie-dye folds, as do True Tie Dye's Tom Rolofson's wonderful "Learn How to Tie Dye" series of DVDs (see Amazon affiliate links at right side of page).

Color Mixing

You can make all the colors you need by mixing lemon yellow, fuchsia, and turquoise. You should probably get black, too (I prefer Dharma's New Black), as it intensifies the other colors wonderfully by contrast, and it's hard to mix yourself.

Simple rules:

a lot of fuchsia and a little yellow make red
red and yellow make orange
yellow and turquoise* make green
a lot of turquoise* plus a little fuchsia makes blue
turquoise* plus fuchsia makes purple
*(remember to double the amounts of turquoise as compared to other colors)

Color Choice

The two most obvious differences between a wonderful tie-dye and a so-so one are color choice and color saturation. You'll find that you really have to work to squirt enough dye into the folds to avoid a large amount of white on the finished garment. In choosing colors to place adjacent to each other, remember the color wheel. Do not place "opposite" colors next to each other, such as red near green, or blue near orange, or yellow near purple: the results would be a muddy mess. If you really like bright colors, as I do, avoid placing a color with red mixed *in* it, such as purple, near green.

A good basic rule is to apply two colors next to each other only if they appear next to each other in the following short list:


fuchsia...yellow...turquoise...purple...fuschia
...or, for a more detailed color scheme, choose adjacent colors from the following expanded list:


fuchsia...red...orange...yellow...green...turquoise...blue...purple...fuschia
It really does help to place fuchsia between red and purple.

Hand Dyeing - How to Do It
basic recipe for Procion MX dyes on cellulose or silk




















(See also the next three pages, How to Tie Dye, How to Batik, and More Ways to Dye, as well as the Dyeing Links page, for additional instructions!)
Ingredients: appropriate cloth or clothing; water; urea (optional); Procion MX dyes or other fiber reactive dyes; sodium carbonate (soda ash or "pH Up"). Rubber bands, synthetic sinew, or dental floss for tyeing (optional). Plastic bottles with to hold the dye (4 to 8 ounces [125 to 250 ml] is a good size).

Instructions:

Choose the right fabric, first. Fabrics that are at least 80% cellulose fiber--cotton, rayon, linen, tencel, or hemp--should dye well. 50% cotton/50% polyester makes nice pastels. Cotton clothing is often sewn with non-cotton thread, which stays white, but this is not usually a problem. Avoid 100% polyester or nylon. Silk is the only protein (animal) fiber that can be dyed with this recipe.

Next, wash your fabric. This can be done days in advance. Unwashed fabric may not dye well.

Next, if you're planning to tie-dye, tie the dry garments in advance. It's easiest that way. (Tieing wet garments is a total pain, and then you're committed to dyeing that day.) See the next page for more information on tieing.

Mixing the dyes may be done up to one week in advance. (Longer storage requires refrigeration.)

Dissolve urea in water....1 tablespoon (15 ml) per cup (250 ml). Urea is harmless, easy to measure, and it dissolves readily--a chemist's favorite. Make enough at one time for every color you're going to prepare. (Urea may be omitted in low water immersion dyeing.)

Next, dissolve dye in urea solution. The best dye to use on cotton is a good fiber reactive dye such as Procion MX, Sabracron F, or Drimarene K (buy from one of the companies listed at Sources for Supplies). (Do not use all-purpose dye such as Rit? brand dye in this type of dyeing!) Use about 4 teaspoons of dye per cup...unless the dye is or contains turquoise, in which case you must double the amount (because you really need to dye by weight, not volume, and turquoise is very light in density), or black in which case you must use 2x or 4x as much. If you are mixing primaries to make other shades, note that the powder dissolves much more easily after it's been mixed in dry form.
Put the dye solutions into squirt or spray bottles for applying the dye - buy plastic bottles specifically for this purpose.

Be careful when you measure out the dye...leave the jars open as short a time as possible, and use a face mask. Don't breathe dye! The stuff isn't very toxic, but you can become sensitized to it, which would put an end forever to your dyeing.


Pre-soaking the fabric. Just before dyeing, pre-soak the fabric for fifteen minutes to one hour in a solution of sodium carbonate, mixed one cup per gallon of water. This stuff is also known as washing soda (but don't buy the type sold in the grocery store - it may have undesirable additives). The kind sold for swimming pools - one brand is "pH Up" - is excellent. (Do not use sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda!)

Applying the dye. I like to lay the fabric nearly flat, or pleated loosely, and drip with squeeze bottles directly onto the fabric, or spray it on with a spray bottle. This part is easy and fun, but always more tiring than I expect. Be sure to wear gloves! The sodium carbonate is slightly caustic and must be washed or at least wiped off of your skin immediately after contact. (Not to mention that the dyes themselves look very odd on your hands for a couple of days afterwards--while a special hand cleaner, ReDuRan, is sold for cleaning up after dyes, it really doesn't work as well as you'd like, so you end up waiting two or three days to look normal again..)

Reaction time. Make sure that the fabric stays wet, for the reaction to take place, no less than two hours, but preferably eight to twenty-four hours. The amount of time required depends on the temperature. In our humid climate here, we just leave the clothing outside, trusting the urea, a humectant, to keep our fabric sufficently damp, but in drier climates you may need to use plastic wrap or plastic bags.

Wash the clothing. Many dyers prefer to use Synthrapol detergent in the wash water, to help prevent dyes from mixing in undesired ways. You still need to isolate very light colors (especially yellow/orange); the problem with transfer of unreacted dye from dark to light regions is reduced by waiting a full day or more before washing out, as dye which has not reacted with the fabric will tend to react with the water, if given enough time. I wash first on cold, then on warm, then on hot, using Synthrapol in each wash, and end by double-rinsing. You may need to wash the clothes separately the first few wearings, but pretty soon they are 100% colorfast and safe to wash with anything, in my experience.

Heat setting is NOT necessary with Procion MX dyes. The only reason to use a hot water wash is to rid the cloth of the last bits of unreacted dye. It is important to use cold water before using hot water, as hot water may, in the presence of the sodium carbonate, encourage some excess dye to become a little too closely associated with the fabric, resulting in dye that gradually rinses out over the course of many washings.


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Re: Getting my Bill Nye on [Re: Terrapin77]
    #5175729 - 01/13/06 07:53 AM (18 years, 1 month ago)

I would totally hit on a nerd in a tye dye lab coat.  :heart:


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Re: Getting my Bill Nye on [Re: Terrapin77]
    #5177152 - 01/13/06 02:25 PM (18 years, 1 month ago)

Heh sounds like if I want good results I should have somebody do it for me, then. Trial and error on $15 lab coats could get pricey really fast.

How much would you want to be paid to do it for me?  :grin:


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Re: Getting my Bill Nye on [Re: Konnrade]
    #5181199 - 01/14/06 07:21 PM (18 years, 1 month ago)

Righty-oh then.

I took a rather nonflattering image in my living room. A fireplace mantle is a great place to set a camera down for taking timer pictures.

Yeesh, the goggles are hideous :bored:



As soon as I saw that image I hated it, though. I look terrible.


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Re: Getting my Bill Nye on [Re: Konnrade]
    #5181288 - 01/14/06 07:48 PM (18 years, 1 month ago)

what's in the tube?


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Re: Getting my Bill Nye on [Re: WeAreAllOne]
    #5181299 - 01/14/06 07:51 PM (18 years, 1 month ago)

Looks like one of those vials with liquor sour candy in them.

mmmm I used to steal those from the local gift store back in the day. :grin:


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Re: Getting my Bill Nye on [Re: WeAreAllOne]
    #5181607 - 01/14/06 09:21 PM (18 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

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what's in the tube?




It's a test tube with a rubber stopper in it, filled with water and a couple drops of food coloring.

A common photogenic mixture to put in lab glassware.


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Re: Getting my Bill Nye on [Re: Konnrade]
    #5181653 - 01/14/06 09:39 PM (18 years, 1 month ago)

nice job
did you say you were wearing a lab coat for inorganic chem 1?


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Re: Getting my Bill Nye on [Re: mycogirl]
    #5181666 - 01/14/06 09:42 PM (18 years, 1 month ago)

Chemistry 110, which is introductory college chem.

I won't need to wear a lab coat until later classes, but it's still recommended, since it's easy to trash your clothes in the lab, and if you get a mild splash it's a lot easier to toss the lab coat off then it is to strip naked and hop in the chemical shower.


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