Tinting plexiglass

What is the best way?

I've read that regular window tint films won't work due to outgassing of the plastic in the sun.

VHT Nightshades may work but I've seen more bad results than good from it.

Anyone ever used the RIT dye method successfully?

Is buying dark Plexiglas not an option?

I thought you could get tinted plexi?

None at my local Lowes. Anyway, the piece is already made, I just think it would look better with a dark tint.

I made a couple mistakes when making the piece so I'm all for experimenting as I'm likely going to redo it anyway. I may try the RIT method and see what that gives me.

Pactra, the flexible paint you use on R/C bodies had multiple "candy" colors that were transparent.

I missed you moving to a sport bike, looks nice

In reply to chandlerGTi:

Thank you. It's a Yamaha FJ-09 named Amy Yamahammer.

Found a product made by rustoleum made for tinting taillights which is peelable like Plasti dip.

It's not really what I was looking for. It's more like a light smoke grey color and is pretty opaque. I'm going to peel it off and try something different.

I don't know if they still use it, but hit up an optician's office like Pearle Vision. They used to make their own gradient lenses and tinted lenses by dipping/soaking them in a dye. Even if they can't help (most of them farm out everything now) you might be able to google up how they did it.

My friend was an Optician in the 90's and his office had little heated vats of dye. For tinted lenses you just dumped them in for a half hour. For gradient tint there was a little machine that dipped them in and out at different levels.

After a three hour ride this morning I was cleaning the bug guts off of it and grabbed the rag with all the metal swarf in it by accident. So black plasti dip to the rescue. Not really digging the look but berkeley it, it's only temporary anyway. The big factory shield will go back on when it cools off and I'll either make another one or actually spend some money on an aftermarket shorty for next summer.

you can get tinted plastics thru McMaster and I'm sure other places.

In reply to stafford1500:

Yeah, I know. I'm way too impatient to order stuff through the internet and wait for it to show up. When I get an idea in my head I have to do it now, like right now.