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How Can I Get Permanent Marker out of my Mother's Taurus?

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Old 06-08-2007, 04:01 AM
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Default How Can I Get Permanent Marker out of my Mother'* Taurus?

A few days ago my niece got ahold of a permanent marker and marked all over the back cloth seats, what can I get it out with?
Old 06-08-2007, 06:42 AM
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I haven't tried it on fabric yet, but at work we use those magic erasers on graffitti and they work really well.
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Try Denatured Alcohol on a terrycloth towel and blott the spot out.
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I heard hair spray works well. You spray it on a rag and blot the stain.

You might want to verify my "hearings" first...
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Originally Posted by vital49
I heard hair spray works well. You spray it on a rag and blot the stain.

You might want to verify my "hearings" first...
It will work as well. Blotting it off is one of the keys to removing the sharpie marks.
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PET ether is a good solvent for blotting, anything though that can dissolve sharpie ink for blotting is bound to bleach out the fabric though. ..... It'* a Ford, just use some black powder poured into some 1' pipe and.............
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Rubbing alcohol will work (you'll get most of it). Mix it 50% with water so that it doesn't evaporate as quickly, so it has time to do it'* job. Blot, don't wipe.
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When you buy isopropyl alcohol in the drug store, they sell it in two strengths, 70% and 97%. The 97% is supposed to be for sterilizing needles for insulin needles & such. Get that one. Keep doing the blotting / soaking / blotting over and over again.

The 70% usually also contains glycerin as a skin softener, which doesn't help it as a solvent at all. Get the 97%. You just have to look for it, sometimes it'* on a different shelf.

And don't get the green one, either. (Duh.)
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Originally Posted by Bugsi
When you buy isopropyl alcohol in the drug store, they sell it in two strengths, 70% and 97%. The 97% is supposed to be for sterilizing needles for insulin needles & such. Get that one. Keep doing the blotting / soaking / blotting over and over again.

The 70% usually also contains glycerin as a skin softener, which doesn't help it as a solvent at all. Get the 97%. You just have to look for it, sometimes it'* on a different shelf.

And don't get the green one, either. (Duh.)
Around here it'* 91%, but same point.
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walmart is the only one i've seen to sell that 91% stuff


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