Don,
You asked:
Anybody have a way to tint your canopy w/o warping the plastic?
RIT dye works fine. The first time I used the dye, I had the water too hot and warped the plastic. The second time, I used a scrap piece of plastic for testing. With a thermometer in the water, I kept raising the temperature and sticking in the test piece. In this way, I got an estimate of the temperature at which the plastic started to warp. When I tinted the canopy, I kept the temperature below the warping temperature and everything came out fine. Periodically, I took the canopy out of the dye solution to judge the amounting of tinting. When it looked right to me, I stopped the tinting process.
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