Red layout fluid – at last!
It may be a vision thing but I have wanted to obtain some red layout fluid from some time after seeing work done in the USA using red. Eventually I found a supplier in the UK but it was expensive (for me!) at nearly £10. However I made the order and it just arrived from maintechmro.com this morning.
Whilst not up to doing any work in the workshop I did decide to go and do a test of the red dye against my blue layout. I cleaned a piece of scrap steel and applied the blue to one side and the red to the other. The difference in quality was immediately apparent. My blue ink is very thin whilst the Dykem red was a lot thicker. It also dried much quicker than the blue so I decided to scribe a line on both and see if there was a difference.
Again it may be my eyes but I can see the line much clearer in the red than the blue so whilst it may be more expensive this is definitely a case of you get what you pay for. Added to this, at my usage rate this bottle will last a long time, even more so than the blue since it comes with its own brush!
Dykem Red Layout fluid
April 29th, 2010 at 10:27 am
It could be the photo or perhaps one of us is a bit colour blind because I can see the line on the blue better than the one on the red…
Perhaps the difference is the quality of the fluid rather than the colour? Having it dry faster and having consistent thickness is worth paying for.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Its the photo, the red is definitely better (in my opinion of course) As you say, the die is thicker and I believe it will be more durable (not that the blue has performed poorly). As always it is a case of ‘you pay your money and take your choice’