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Dr. Boyter-
I accidently got bleach on my brown-colored nylon (and other synthetic material) pants, and my effort to even out the color with more bleach led to the pants taking on a peach color, making them unwearable (outside of a gay bar perhaps!).
What kind of treatment can I use to change the color to something more acceptable (brown, blue or green- anything except peach), without destroying the material of the pants?
thanks,
Bruce
You will need to completely bleach the color out of the pants and redye or dye them very black. Not much else you can do. Talk to someone local (dry cleaners or tailor shop) who you can show the actual pants. Note that no matter what you do, the material will be weakened by each bleaching and dyeing. Best advice, buy some new pants and tie-dye these.
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| Comment | Thanks for your quick reply, we are working with the material supplier but haven't yet received a response. We will begin retesting next week, the test conducted takes roughly 90 days for completion and is expensive, we passed everything except this and I do feel that it is an error during testing. We have been producing this type product for many years and this is the first time we have failed toxicology testing. NSF said everything was looking clean one week prior to the final report, then came the bad news, if we fail this next test I will submit samples for testing in another lab. Thanks for your prompt response. Ted | ||
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Dr. Henry Boyter, Jr.
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Chemistry (non-biochemistry), environmental science, occupational health and safety, environmental regulation and management, environmental engineering, and wastewater engineering. I'm the Director of Environmental, Health, and Safety and the Director of Research at the Institute of Textile Technology.
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Chemistry (non-biochemistry), environmental science, occupational health and safety, environmental regulation and management, environmental engineering, and wastewater engineering. I'm the Director of Environmental, Health, and Safety and the Director of Research at the Institute of Textile Technology.
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PhD, MS, BS in Chemistry
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