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Re: Metal marking

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Subject: Re: Metal marking
From: "Elton Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 23:01:04 -0500
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From: "Landaiche Kenneth

> Last night I was scribing some stainless steel to cut it and could not
> see the marks very well. I vaguely remember seeing a dark dye or paint
> that could be applied, then scribed through making it very easy to see
> the markings. A stop in the local hardware store (If We Don't Have It,
> You Don't Need It!) brought a vague notion of something called "Prussian
> Blue". But they really didn't know anything about it. Any ideas?

Ken, "Prussian Blue" was used to mark bearing metal, like poured bearing in
an engine block.  You then fitted the shaft and rotated it which would wipe
the blue off the high points highlighting them for hand scrapping.  It's
sort of like blue grease as I remember.  Alcohol based marker pens mark
stainless pretty well if it's not oily.

Tony_______________________@Sherman.Texas

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