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Sharpie Permanent Marker

nmkid

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This is not gun-related but, helpful. Many times I mark hard smooth surfaces with my Sharpie. Later I have to change what I wrote and things get messy. The ever-knowing Internet showed me something today. When wishing to remove permanent marker writing...Simply go over the original writing with the Sharpie again, and quickly, (before it dries) wipe the writing off with a rag or paper towel. Bingo! You end up with a clean surface. I spent a good 1/2 hour this morning removing old writing from plastic ammo boxes. Now I can write on them again. LOL.
 
Must have snagged a few Chinese knock offs. I bought a two
pack a month ago at a Dollar General. A week later the black
will smear on anything I put it on. The ones I got at Staples do
not, and dry hard. I recently cleaned off a pile of loading tubs
real easy with Isopropyl.......
 
This is not gun-related but, helpful. Many times I mark hard smooth surfaces with my Sharpie. Later I have to change what I wrote and things get messy. The ever-knowing Internet showed me something today. When wishing to remove permanent marker writing...Simply go over the original writing with the Sharpie again, and quickly, (before it dries) wipe the writing off with a rag or paper towel. Bingo! You end up with a clean surface. I spent a good 1/2 hour this morning removing old writing from plastic ammo boxes. Now I can write on them again. LOL.
good tip -ill try it— oven cleaner works good for alot of things— spray it on sharpie writing on an mtm box and let it set a few minutes — just try not to breathe it
 
All I have ever used it a wet cloth with some Hoppe's #9 on it and off came the sharpie writing on my Plastic ammo boxes. But this trick is good to have on hand, if #9 does not work.
 
Dry erase markers work well for this as well. We use permanent markers to create lines for data tables on whiteboards a lot at work. The lines stay when cleaning the contents of the table that are written in dry erase. When we want to erase the permanent marker lines we simply draw over them with dry erase markers and then wipe them away.
 

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