15 May
2003
15 May
'03
11:52 p.m.
On Thu, 15 May 2003, Jim wrote:
Get thee to your local gun shoppe and pick up a bottle
of Hoppe's No. 9
Powder Solvent. Takes most every thing off. Haven't used it on painted
surfaces, but it'll remove the unremovable from plastic. Methyl alcohol
is the 'official' solvent for Sharpie ink though. Available from your
local pharmacist.
Are you sure? Being the poisonous one (vs ethyl alcohol) it would
be a bit surprising for a pharmacist to trade in that item.
- don
Jim
>On Thu, 15 May 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
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>>On Thu, 15 May 2003, Joe wrote:
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>>>>Has anyone tried removing Sharpie from a chassis with textured
>>>>paint? I have a couple of items that were marked up with a Sharpie,
>>>>and short of paint thinner (which seems to dilute and bury the ink
>>>>in the paint while damaging the texture), I've found nothing that
>>>>seems to work.