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HomeCar CareGlass CarePeel-Off Marker (1-Card)Sharpie 2-Pack Thin Black China Peel-Off Marker (1-Card) |
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7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Perfect for labeling bottles for day care Mar 21, 2011
By D Anderson
An absolute must if you have a little one at day care - it's excellent to label bottles with dates and contents. Truly a must! Washes away with soap and water!
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Very useful for extremelybright sun labeling Nov 20, 2010
By airfirehorse
I bought these markers for only one reason: I had tried Sharpies and pens I could think of on my plant & tree labels (metal and paper labels) and every single "ink" faded in the bright sunlight. I happened to see these in a mailing store and asked the counter boy if he thought these would fade in sunlight. He said "No, car dealers use them on window stickers", so I ordered these from Amazon (because, of course, Amazon was the cheapest) the next day.
I wrote on my metal labels (the same ones I used with Sharpies and pens) and months later they are still perfect! No sign of ANY degradation. They can be read just as well as when I first labeled them. So for this very specific purpose I give two thumbs up. The only down side is they are hard to sharpen so the letters come out fat. That I can live with.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Classic product never outdated Dec 14, 2011
By D. L. Lederman
"leahiniowa"
I remember watching my teachers use these fascinating markers from when I was a child in the 1960's. I used to view them almost as if they were magical: They are like a crayon, but stronger. They can be sharpened, but not with a sharpener. If you know how to use them properly, the writing can last indefinitely - and if you don't know how to use them you must be a child.
Over the years, they had faded from my memory, even though there were times when I really could have used them. I see that another reviewer mentions using them for seed markers. If I only could have pulled them from the corners of my memory I would have been a much happier gardener over the past few years.
Let's face it - there are times when a ball-point pen won't work at all and a felt marker leaves beads of ink on your writing surface until you accidentally smear them all over your skin (there's a day or three of hard scrubbing!). And even when those permanent markers work, they are true to their name and ARE permanent, which can be misleading if you are using them to label containers of leftover food. (My children still laugh about the time I was eating rasperries out of a container marked "Lasagna.")
So when I saw one of these little china markers at the bulk foods area of my local food coop, I knew that I had to have one. Unfortunately, I had forgotten what they were called and I could not find them at my local ubiquitous "super" discount department store. However, I recently made a trip to my old neighborhood in Brooklyn, where I have a few favorite family owned "general" stores - the kind where you can hardly make it through the aisles because the merchandise is crammed in wherever it will fit from floor to ceiling. Voila! There they were!
It has been less than a week now and I've already marked several things that used to be "unmarkable" - such as a CD and it's case. Much more convenient than trying to find sticky labels, write on them and then cut them to size. And when I use these up - Hey! There's Amazon!
(Now I'll just have to control myself from ordering a dozen of every color!)
Thank you, Amazon.
Does the Job Apr 10, 2012
By Stoney
"China markers", "crayon pencils", "grease pencils", or "wax pencils" were the general-purpose markers 50 years ago before felt-tip markers (FTPs in the following discusion) were invented.
DISADVANTAGES OF FELT-TIPPED MARKERS
Water soluble FTPs will not mark non-porous surfaces (such as glass, china, hard plastic, etc.)---or wipe off too easily. The slightest dampness will cause soluble FTPs to run. On the otherhand, permanent FTPs (such as Sharpies) are pretty permanent and hard to remove. The ink in FTPs (whether water soluble or permanent) fades after a few weeks in sunlight.
ADVANTAGES OF CHINA MARKERS
China markers will mark anything, with a little elbow-grease can be completely wiped off any non-porous surface. China markers do not fade in sunlight.
USES
China markers are ideal for marking china (dishes and bowls), e.g., prices at a garage sale. They can be used for decorating picture windows, or prices on used cars for sale. They are particularly good with garden tags to record what you've planted. They are good for labeling paper packages and plastic or glass containers of food for storage in a refrigerator. They can be used as simple crayons for art projects. Speaking of which, the marks are just as difficult as crayons to remove from fabrics.
FIXING SCRATCHED CDs/DVDs
However, I purchased them for fixing scratched CDs. I had purchased a kit (a wax pencil and a cloth) years ago for the purpose, but can no longer find the kit for sale. If your disk has a single scratch which is causing a problem---mark over the scratch with black china marker, and then wipe the excess off with a clean cloth, rubbing across (not along) the scratch. And miraculously, the CD will play, most of the time. Apparently the black pigment in the scratch prevents extraneous reflections which cause the problems. This doesn't always work, but at least you've done no damage to the CD, and you can always try a more vigorous method.
If your CD/DVD has many scratches, you may want to cover the entire surface with the black marker marks, then wipe off. If that doesn't work, another method is to scrub with toothpaste. Scrubbing with toothpaste will dull the surface with hundreds of shallow scratches, but may remove the slightly deeper scratches which are causing the problem. Although the light scratches caused by the toothpase (or other abrassive) usually do not effect play, there are special products for restoring surfaces---but I bet automotive wax would work just as well.Maxell CD/CD-ROM Scratch Repair Kit
First time mom Dec 17, 2011
By Ktlp
I ordered these to help label bottles as I pumped to keep track of the dates and times the milk was expressed. They work great on all types of glass, plastic, and ceramics. The only reason I didn't give them 5 stars is because I accidentally dropped them on two separate occasions and both times the grease pencil "lead" broke off and I had to waste a lot of it just trying to peel back the paper--which wasn't all that easy to do with the thread.
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