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Re: Never Do This, and Other Good Ideas Gone Bad

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Originally Posted by Billfred View Post
JVN's silver Sharpie tip was a revelation this year, though that still took us a couple of hours in our shop with a small group of people tracing and going back over the numbers a few times. (I think we put at least three or four coats on our robot's bumpers, which we did with a rather thick stroke--we bought six markers and had usable ones afterward.)
To make the numbering process faster, couldn't you cut the markers open, extract the plastic-wrapped felt ink reservoir, and use it like a big, wet crayon? (Who cares that you can't write with the markers anymore? And if at a competition, there will be plenty of other teams with inadequate bumpers who could benefit from the leftover ink.)