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   lwilliams | Dec 12, 2007 01:47am | #1

   Enco, MSC Industrial Supply or any of the other industrial supply houses should have it. Buy a small bottle, it goes a long way. I prefer the brush on type for most things.

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   captainkidd | Dec 12, 2007 01:47am | #2

   There should be several places that you can buy online, one being http://www.use-enco.com. I know I can get it in town by the bottle too (of course I found it after I ordered online). So you might look at either a machinists tooling supply in town or in my case there is a place called Tool Peddler who has it that sells several different types of tools for metal and wood.

   B.Kidd

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   Tony Z | Dec 12, 2007 01:59am | #3

   When you buy, be careful to read the description:  one type is a quick drying dye and the other (Prussian blue IIRC) is more of a grease that stays on and is used by machinists to scrape a surface.

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   MattInPA | Dec 12, 2007 02:55am | #4

   I just ordered from Enco. Thank you

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   Jamie_Buxton | Dec 12, 2007 09:21am | #5

   This reply is a little late, but a felt-tip marker works quite well.   It is cheap and readily available.

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   MattInPA | Dec 12, 2007 04:08pm | #6

   I tried using a sharpie and an assortment of my children's coloring/painting paraphenalia. I had given up on things along those lines. I probably should have tried that. I'm not good at putting the tops back on those things so it would not have been a good fit, regardless.

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   saschafer | Dec 12, 2007 04:48pm | #7

   You're going to have to learn to put the top back on the can of layout fluid; that stuff dries very fast. There's also a spray-on version, which would probably be more tolerant of leaving the cap off....

   -Steve

    

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   BilljustBill | Dec 12, 2007 11:22pm | #10

   When I need contact points between metal parts, I use the thick ink you find a ball point pens and their refills. 

    Stays where it's put and won't run.

     Bill

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   RickL | Dec 12, 2007 05:57pm | #8

   http://www.mcmaster.com   Dykem is a popular brand. I often just use a wide tip magic marker.

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   danmart | Dec 12, 2007 09:03pm | #9

   Matt

   The machinist dye is good stuff. I use the blue fast drying stuff to mark things and scribe right thru it. In the recent years I have been using black leather dye. Comes in a bottle and it dries faster than machinist blue and I can see a line even better. At half the price of the blue, you can get it from a store like Walmart. If it doesn't work for you in that application, it makes a great dye for ebonizing small pieces of wood.

   Note: leather dye not sole dressing. Oh- its great for black shoes if you scuff the leather ---if you still polish your shoes.

   dan