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Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
By:Ian Johnson
Date: 1/31/2011, 4:02 am
In Response To: Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims (Bill Hamm)

: Pretty much any dry black pigment will work, it's all basically the
: same thing, ground up carbon. Might be able to find lamp black
: in a big hardware store, though finding dead toner cartridges
: shouldn't be all that hard, don't need all that much, plenty
: left over in a cartridge that doesn't print anymore to do it.

: Bill H.

Yeah this worked for me - a local stationery store gave me an old laser printer cartridge, and there is enough in there to last me for probably ten boats.

Cheers, Ian

Messages In This Thread

Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Ian Cummins -- 1/30/2011, 10:32 pm
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims *PIC*
dave g -- 1/30/2011, 11:07 pm
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Bill Hamm -- 1/31/2011, 12:10 am
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Ian Johnson -- 1/31/2011, 4:02 am
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Greg Bridges -- 1/31/2011, 12:13 am
Consider brown *PIC*
John Caldeira -- 1/31/2011, 12:20 am
Re: Consider brown
Ian Cummins -- 1/31/2011, 11:23 am
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/31/2011, 3:43 am
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Bill Hamm -- 1/31/2011, 3:50 am
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Brian Nystrom -- 1/31/2011, 6:34 am
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Jay Babina -- 1/31/2011, 8:00 am
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Ian Cummins -- 1/31/2011, 12:34 pm
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Bill Hamm -- 2/1/2011, 12:56 am
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Don T -- 2/1/2011, 6:37 am
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
Bill Hamm -- 2/1/2011, 4:54 pm
exotic edges for hatch rims *PIC*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/31/2011, 12:42 pm
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims
MattD. -- 1/31/2011, 3:06 pm
Re: Material: Blackener for hatch rims *PIC*
Bryan Hansel -- 1/31/2011, 3:21 pm