Permanent marker on a PVC inflatable

[stevecray]

Help! I have used a Pentel permanent marker to mark the name in my PVC inflatable and after 3 days, it still is not dry! Have tried to encourage it using a hair dryer and have tried using blotting paper to take off any excess, but to no avail. Apart from not being so stupid in the first place, any suggestions?

 

[Stemar]

Re: Permanent marker in PVC inflatable

Clean it of with isopropyl alcohol and start again?

Meths may work if you can't lay your hands on isopropyl.

 

[HoratioHB]

Re: Permanent marker in PVC inflatable

Believe it or not Biro is the best it really stains in well, quite hard to make a nice large job but great for putting some indentifying marks in various places.

 

[VicS]

Odd. A popular way to mark an inflatable.

Pentel permanent marker I have here dries in seconds. Smells a bit of meths, Meths removed it from a piece of plastic pipe no problem (assumed to be PVC).

 

[sarabande]

genuine Pentel ? I shudder to think but is it in someway dissolving the medium *? What's the make of the dink ?

* analagous to necrotising fasciitis...

 

[stevecray]

it's a Plastimo "Raid" model and a genuine Pentel.

 

[ytd]

you can get a spray on vynil(?sp) spray that has lasted a couple of years on our inflatable. Need a stencil though.

 

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[sarabande]

it looks as if they are made from Heytex fabric. The construction appears to be multi-layer, which claims to be highly resistant to oils and fuels, so no solvent action by the Pentel is likely.

The only suggestion I can offer is that the different colour of the marker encourages the formation of dew, as it probably radiates heat at a different rate from the surrounding material.

Have you tasted / smelt the liquid that appears on the writing ?

 

[stevecray]

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Have you tasted / smelt the liquid that appears on the writing ?

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Don't think it is dew as it was in my house for 3 days. I have not tasted/smelt, but if you touch it, the ink comes off on your finger.

My latest approach was to spend a long time on Saturday night blotting it with white paper until almost nothing came off any more, though if you rubbed it with a cloth, there was still ink coming off. As I needed to use it Sunday (yesterday), I transported it to the boat on the roof of my car without deflating and asked my crew to try and avoid sitting on the writing! I have now left it in the open air on the back of the boat in the hope that it will eventually dry. Fingers crossed!

 

[BlueSkyNick]

There is a school of thought that says you shouldnt mark the dinghy with the boat's name at all.

If it is tied up for an evening on a pontoon of a popular harbour, others can deduce that the boat is unattended and start borrowing stuff they have no intention of putting back.

Maybe a mobile number with 'If Found, Contact ...' might be better.

 

[jhughes]

Are you sure its not a whiteboard marker in disguise, have you tried the pen on something else?

 

[samwestwood]

dont be so cheep just get some vinal transfers

 

[john_morris_uk]

[ QUOTE ]
There is a school of thought that says you shouldnt mark the dinghy with the boat's name at all.

If it is tied up for an evening on a pontoon of a popular harbour, others can deduce that the boat is unattended and start borrowing stuff they have no intention of putting back.

Maybe a mobile number with 'If Found, Contact ...' might be better.

[/ QUOTE ]There is another school of thought (from my insurance company) that says my tender isn't covered by my insurance if I don't mark it with the boats name.