Thread: help with hardened dye

Several of Do-It/candy Creek colorants hard pack and need shook periodically to prevent this. I use to put a couple stainless steel nuts in my bottles to make it like a rattle can. I’d give this a shot. Also you might heat some water and then take off heat source. Then submerge bottle to warm colorant.

I do the same thing by adding ball bearings to the bottle and shake it quite often to keep it from hard packing.

I have been working it and shaking it for 3 days and making progress, but I love the idea to put nuts or bearing in there to help break it up. Thank you both!

All the bottles sat for years without being touched, probably like 8 years, thankfully only 2 of them settled really bad.

Originally Posted by fish_4_any

I have been working it and shaking it for 3 days and making progress, but I love the idea to put nuts or bearing in there to help break it up. Thank you both!

All the bottles sat for years without being touched, probably like 8 years, thankfully only 2 of them settled really bad.

Lol you’re welcome. Old school trick with them colorants. I probably have 15 do it colorants in garage I haven’t touched in two years and probably a 1/3 hard pack.

You also can put it in a microwave for like 10 seconds. This will melt the colorant, but no longer. Then shake it some more.

The hot water seems to have done the trick. It took a while after heating it for it to thicken up to where I think it should be but it seems all is good now.

I would have tried the microwave but I couldn't get the stainless steel nuts out of the bottles!

Good stuff!

Originally Posted by fish_4_any

I have 8 bottles of caney creek x2 colorants and 2 of them settled into a hard mass on the bottom. I have managed to work them a little but some of the pigment is still in a large lump in the bottle. Is there anything I can do to get the rest of it to disperse or am I just gonna have to buy replacements?

I drop a small egg sinker in the bottle and some worm oil. That works for me. If needed I heat some water in the microwave then take it out and set it on a desk. Then it is safe to put the bottle of colorant in it with the egg sinker and worm oil in the hot water for 20-30 seconds and then shake it again.

Mike