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Posted by Q-Wagoner (Member # 33) on December 08, 2004, 11:22 PM:
Is that even how you spell it? LOL I was talking to a friend tonight about coon hunting and he was wanting to rig up his light with a red filter but he couldn’t find one that would fit his light. I told him to just spry it with red “Dykem” and he should be good to go. “What the hell is Dykem?” He asks. “Well actually I don’t have a damn clue” I replied. “All I know is that a lot of guys on the Internet use it on their lights.” We called the Do it Center and Home Depot and no one we talked to had even heard of the stuff. They had basically the same questions that I do. “What the hell is it and what does it do?” LOL Oh and where do you get it? ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
Thanks.
Q,
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on December 08, 2004, 11:45 PM:
Hi Q,
It's good to hear that so many are finally using Dykem. I pioneered the stuff after using every manor of stain and lacquer and paint.
But, what it is, is a marking fluid, and it's normally seen in a dark blue, out of a can with a dauber.
However, they make several colors, red being one, and it is usually used in marking (scribeing) aluminum, rather than steel.
The best news is that they make it in a spray can, and this is what you want. It is high heat tolerant, won't scorch on the hot bulb, dries clear just like transparent red glass.
Even better, you can darken it with several layers and then remove it with their special solvent, for those moon lit nights. And, just about any shade you like.
Be sure and spray down so the Dykem spreads out evenly, outward toward the edges. Bulb needs to be very clean of oil and finger prints before you start, but it's not hard to do. A single can and another bottle of solvent should last for years.
It's available from McMaster-Carr and Grainger's. Best I can do, don't know where else, maybe a local machinest supply store?
Good luck, LB
Posted by Krustyklimber (Member # 72) on December 08, 2004, 11:48 PM:
Q,
If you have a Grainger Supply near you, or one of their catalogs, that's a good place to find it.
It is made for use in machine shops, to paint metals, then scribe layout marks into it.
So a tool and die supplier would also be a good choice.
What I did is took a piece of plastic sheet from pie container I got at the grocery store, cut a "lens cover" that fit in my light(between the glass and the rubber ring around the body), then I used a red Sharpie marker to "paint" the sheet red.
I put a tab of duct tape on one edge so I could pull the lens cover out, if I needed to use the light for any other purpose.
Krusty 
P.S. Didn't know you were up this late LB
[ December 08, 2004, 11:50 PM: Message edited by: Krustyklimber ]
Posted by varmit hunter (Member # 37) on December 09, 2004, 06:53 AM:
Leonard. That is the best explanation of Dykem I ever heard. As a machinist for thirty years. I used the stuff nearly every day. I am a little confused. Do you spray the bulb are the lens?. I spray the lens.
Q, You defiantly wont to get the removal solvent. It is about the only way this stuff will come off.
Ronnie
[ December 09, 2004, 06:54 AM: Message edited by: varmit hunter ]
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on December 09, 2004, 09:48 AM:
You could do it either way, Ronnie. My reference is to a sealed beam, in which case, you would place it, (support it) in a coffee can, face up, and spray down on the front lens.
However, if you just wanted to stain a plastic disc mounted in front of the light, that's okay, too.
But, if you are speaking of a halogen type of bulb, which snaps inside, then it would be best to spray the outer lens of the device, that's what I do, never sprayed the element bulb, itself?
It's thin, so spraying it in a horizonal position, is a great way to have runs down the front. It get's a little sloppy looking, you can see the streaks while hunting, it's distracting.
Good hunting. LB
[ December 09, 2004, 09:49 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by Q-Wagoner (Member # 33) on December 09, 2004, 10:29 AM:
Thanks for the replies. We don’t have a Mc Master’s or Grainger’s here but we do have some machine shops. I’ll check around. Thanks again.
Good hunting.
Q,
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on December 09, 2004, 10:42 AM:
I think it would be easier to just buy it online, here: http://www.mcmaster.com/
Tyype in "Dykem" in the search function, and it brings up page #2062. Everything you need is on that page.
Good hunting. LB
Posted by Krustyklimber (Member # 72) on December 09, 2004, 11:38 AM:
Q,
You're welcome. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
I didn't realize LB was answering at the same time, or I'd have kept my mouth shut.
Here's my rig... I now have my light mounted to an old video camera tripod I had laying around.
Krusty
Posted by Lonny (Member # 19) on December 09, 2004, 03:33 PM:
Q, If you don't have any luck finding any locally give me a yell me usually have some partial or full cans around the shop. Mostly we use blue in the spray can but I'm pretty sure we have some red around also. I would think most any business that ***** to the steel trade would carry it.
Varmit Hunter is right, you don't want to get that shit on anything it shouldn't be on.
[ December 09, 2004, 03:35 PM: Message edited by: Lonny ]
Posted by Lonny (Member # 19) on December 09, 2004, 03:41 PM:
Leonard, why do I get a row of asterist's ***** when I try to type in the word "s e l l s" to the steel trade"?
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on December 09, 2004, 04:10 PM:
Go with the flow, Lonny. I think it's a security measure, or some kind of a joke?
Posted by Lonny (Member # 19) on December 09, 2004, 04:18 PM:
Hell, I thought I was typing a word that had some kind of hidden meaning that I had never heard before. Here in Idaho we are twenty years behind the rest of the world ya know.
Posted by Alaskan Yoter (Member # 169) on December 09, 2004, 07:12 PM:
Sorry from the title I thought this was another gay marriage post. My bad.
But while I'm here ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Hey Krusty did you steal that battery out of the neighbor kids yard truck? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Todd
Posted by Q-Wagoner (Member # 33) on December 09, 2004, 08:44 PM:
We called every machine shop within an hours drive and no one had anything in red. LOL Plenty of guys had blue but no red. A friend of mine has a shop about thirty miles east of me and he got me lined up on a dealer so I got the phone and part # from him and ordered some. It was nine dollars and some change for a 16 oz spray can. That should fix up a few coon lights. LOL
Thanks again.
Q,
Posted by Krustyklimber (Member # 72) on December 09, 2004, 09:05 PM:
Todd,
I have two of those batteries, they are from my nephew's Ninja Quad.
He got it from his cousin, who got it from another cousin, and it's about wore out.
Not to mention he's outgrown it.
I asked him, "hey can I have these batteries for hunting?"
He looked at me puzzled for a minute, and I told him, "...for the spotlight."
"Can I go with you?" he asked...
"Atta boy" I said.
Not having the battery in the light has made it a lot lighter, and easier to use (on or off the tripod).
The batteries last more hours than I can use one in a night, and I have two for a weekend.
I took a tip from Weasle's set-up, and I hang one battery and my e-caller in a bag under the tripod and it makes it really stable.
Krusty
Posted by dafooge (Member # 432) on December 22, 2004, 03:22 PM:
leonard,,ive never used dykem before but have seen it, should i do one or two coats on the lens?, thanks dafooge
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