No. The small chips have an exclusive I.D. number in each bottle. You
register this number with the central agency when you buy the bottle. The
fluorescent part is so it is easy to locate.
I found the article at:
http://www.canadacomputes.com/v3/story/1,1017,6663,00.html This was
written in Canada, but there is probably a US distributor also.
Doug Armstrong
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Hall [mailto:sch8489@garnet.acns.fsu.edu]
> Sent: January 13, 2002 10:34 PM
> To: Doug Armstrong
> Cc: Shop Talk List
> Subject: RE: Marking ones tools
>
>
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Doug Armstrong wrote:
>
> > It was a clear liquid that is dabbed onto the items you wanted
> marked. The
> > dry liquid is hard to remove completely and is fluorescent under a black
> > light In the liquid are many thousand? minute chips with a
> serial number
> > on them that can be read with a low powered microscope.
> >
> > When you buy the small bottle, you mail away the registration
> card which is
> > kept in a secure data base. You get decals to post on your
> garage / tool
> > boxes to indicate that the tools are marked and traceable.
>
> so is the idea that you mark your name with the stuff, of that each bottle
> of it fluoresces a slightly different color the wavelength of which is the
> i.d. (thus the reg. card/secure d-base)?
>
> scott
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