OK..

Title asks the question..

After you dye the canopy for your airplane.. What do you do with the solution???

It's not like I'll be building a new kit each day... (I'm addicted, but not THAT crazy )

Mix it with vodka and... no wait, that's tomato juice.

Of course I would never do this, but SOME people might find an inconspicuous spot behind there house and dump it when no one is looking.

Is it RIT dye? Follow the directions for disposal. if not available, pour it into a jug of used antifreeze to be recycled with it, it's water based, so the recycler is going to process it anyway.

What's wrong with pouring it down the drain. I didn't see any toxic warnings when I used it last. It's used for dying cloths, and gets rinsed down the dran in that process. I'm not a fan of using the drain to dispose of questionable liquids, but this is one I wouldn't worry about.

Just be careful of your sink when you pour it down the drain. I your sink is aged a bit, you may dye the sink also. Make sure to use a lot of water when pouring it to prevent this from happening.

Let me know if I'm wrong.

Don

how about down the toilet?

I think you would be more likely to dye the toilet, There is always a fine mineral film, especially around the water line and that would be a willing canidate for a color change. I would go for the laundry room sink as first choice. Pour carefully directly into the drain with the watter running and you won't have a problem.

Don

I kinda do what Mike said but it's a grate out front!! From what I understand it's harmless but I have been wrong about these things before. I also dye a bunch of APC props for the plane I dyed the canopy for if the dye is a dark color. I have had a bunch of people try to buy my custom made props at fly in's before until I told them the trick. The stories about how I have these props special made are priceless!!

use a bleach solution to do away with any staining should you pour the dye down a sink.

Why not Dye your hair with it first, then dye the Dog's hair, then down the drain.

I keep mine in a sealed 5 gallon bucket for the next time.

Good grief! Pour it carefully down the drain, throw it into the grass, wherever you don't mind a stain- won't hurt anything! Good grief!

If its done dying, and you no its dead berry it.

When I have a small quantity of something iffy I pour it down the drain. At least I know the bad stuff will get filtered out at my local water treatment facility. It's not a good solution to pour any chemical on the ground or to dump it into a storm drain. Storm drains empty straight into an aquatic habitat untreated where it stays for a really long time.

Well, that depends, in CT, most places that have city water also have city treatment, for all run-off and sewage, but yes,....don't dump anything down the street drain, it's ment for rain water, not chemicals. Dye is dye, it has almost no Ill effect on anything except changing the color, so pouring it down the drain is fine, but if your eco friendly, then put it in with waste coolant or mixed chemicals to be treated at a facility. As far as the dye your hair comment, I might just start doing that, especially since my high school friend last monday looked at me and said holy crap,.....your freakin gray![&o] I just told him I didn't like him anymore and walked away.

Planebuilder66,
"Stormwater" is never treated because its just too expensive, even in Connecticut. In fact most cities will fine a homeowner for plumbing runoff into a sewer line because it overwhelms their facility. Sewer water on the other hand gets a lot of filtering, remediation, aeration etc to get it back to something resembling water and it costs a lot of money.

I think you may be thinking of "Surface Water" which is a term used to distinguish water in a reservoir somewhere from aquifer or subsurface water. A link to Connecticut's policy on "stormwater" [link=http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?a=2721&q=325702&depNav_GID=1654]here.[/link]

Guys, don't interpret my comments as some self-righteous tree hugger. I'm not. I just wanted to share some info, that's all.

But if you're from Austin, you know the rest of us in Texas are going to wonder about you...


Just kidding, of course...

Funny, the local water treatment plant in hartford had a overflow due to excess rains that flooded the storm drains and sewers, it spilled into the CT river, so if the storm drains arn't connected to the treatment plants, then why did the plant experence the overflow from the heavy rains? Currently I'm working at foxwoods resort, even they filter and treat the storm water to prevent contamination of local lakes and steams, yes, it's a huge catch basin, about 3 million gallon capacity, the treatment guy here told me they monitor it closly and watch the PH so it doesn't destroy the bacteria. My GF is going for wetlands management, I'll ask her the skinny on treatment of run off and strom drain water, but in any case, dye is almost a nill effect. Legislation and policy is one thing, but written in black and white on paper and what really happens are sometimes two totally different things, some places catch it and treat it around here, because it's better to have something in place rather than wait till it's too late to rectify it.

WHAT A DUMB QUESTION TO ASK GET REAL!!!!