Restoring/cleaning a bevel protractor

Balistol should work quite well and is a good German gun care product, that should be available. The stuff is made from pine trees or something.

Gunner

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LG Gunner, Thanks for your replies. Handguns are banned in the UK, but shotguns not, so will search for a dealer/shop for cleaner. Regards

Geoff Halstead Norfolk, England

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Hello Fred, Thanks for the info, very informative. I wonder if artists type crayons will work? Must check them out.

Regards

Geoff Halstead Norfolk, England

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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:39:24 +0000 (UTC), GeoffH scribed:

Geoff:

Could work? Maybe we just had a good artist crayon... but these were pretty tough to get the stuff off your fingers after doing a few, so I think they had some other special properties. As long as the graduation is not on a wear surface, I reckon any good industrial perm marker may work with the same technique.

I am sure we still use this stick in the repair lab, so I will get you name and MFG in short time.

Best,

Freddie

Hello Fred,

The graduations are clear of wear surface, so no problem there.

How would you remove the access from the raised area? Don't really fancy taking even the finest wet/dry to it.

Much appreciated.

Regards

Geoff Halstead Norfolk, England

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On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 12:13:20 +0000 (UTC), GeoffH scribed:

Just rub a black crayon on it, wipe off the residue with a soft cloth. You might be surprised at the result.

When I toured the Starrett factory a few years ago I saw how this was done. There were several women working on 6" rulers and they would wipe on the black ink then squegee off the excess. This left the grooves filled. What I don't remember is the ink/paint/whatever that they were using. I keep kicking myself for that oversight.