What about using waterproof drawing ink in one of those Rotring or similar
drawing pens? You could get different sized nib units for them which were
actually very short hypodermic-like needles with flat (blunt) ends and of
differen diameters. I used to have one or two (now no more) but I suppose
one can still get them from drawing office supply companies.
Conrad F. Samuels
Kirstenhof SA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelton Rhoads" <krho@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus List" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Mark Dapoz" <md@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 5:19 AM
Subject: [OM] My OIVMPIIS
> >From: Mark Dapoz <md@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: Re: [OM] My OIVMPIIS
> >
> >On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Hans van Veluwen wrote:
> >
> >> There is special paint to restore the characters:
> >> http://www.micro-tools.com/Merchant2/e_paint.htm
> >
> >I have a set of those lacquer sticks, and although they do sort of work,
> >it's nowhere near as good as the original paint. The sticks are more of
> >a paste, sort of like a really soft crayon, and they really only work
well
> >in narrow deep spots like the f stop markings. For the larger spots like
> >the word OLYMPUS, they're useless. I'd really like to know what Olympus
> >uses to fill in those areas. I've had some success using the Testors
model
> >paint carefully applied using a needle. It's not perfect and it's very
> >difficult to get right, so I'm sure there must be a better way.
> > -mark
>
> See, Mark, that's why I think the paint in the letters must be heated in
> some way, once it's in place. How else could you get the paint to flow
> out so perfectly to the very edges of the boundaries? Take a close look
> or under a magnifying loupe and you'll see what I mean. I don't know
> anything about powder coating, but I'm curious what you'd get if you'd
> put powdercoat in the recesses of the letters, scrape it off flush with
> the top, and then heat it. I'll bet somebody on the list has tried this.
> --Kelton
>
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