 | | Best way to remove marker pen from Lego? —Kerry Raymond
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| | | I have recently got a couple of extremely well-used sets on ebay. (Translated that means that their condition was far worse than advertised!) I did the washing machine thing to remove the dust, grime, and whiten those very-yellowed-whites as best I (...) (23 years ago, 7-Nov-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | Re: Best way to remove marker pen from Lego? —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | | (...) It's amazing what people think is still a sellable item, isn't it? I have had one too many bad deals from eBay (and one REALLY bad deal, that actually mad me angry because of the disparity between actual condition and advertised condition). (...) (23 years ago, 7-Nov-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.market.auction)
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| | | | | | | Re: Best way to remove marker pen from Lego? —Kerry Raymond
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| | | | | | (...) A well-known product in Australia, too, along with its stablemate Silvo. I remember only too well polishing my Girl Guide/Brownie badges every week with Brasso, so that I could go to meetings and sing songs like "Lullagulla, we delight, in (...) (23 years ago, 7-Nov-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | Re: Best way to remove marker pen from Lego? —Pete White
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| | | | | (...) Domestos. High strength bleach. Soak until it lifts or soak some more. Days even :^) Restaurants/cafes use it for removing tea/coffee stains from cups, anyone for a cuppa ? pete.w (who drinks coffee mainly at home these days) (23 years ago, 7-Nov-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | Re: Best way to remove marker pen from Lego? —Sheree Rosenkrantz
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| | | | | (...) I have had some success with removing marks from black felt tip pens on bricks by using a regular pink pencil eraser. It does take the shine off of a brick, but this can be easily remedied. [Put a smidge of vaseline on your finger, wipe it off (...) (23 years ago, 7-Nov-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | Re: Best way to remove marker pen from Lego? —David Cook
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| | | | | (...) Kerry, One trick that may work is one I use when someone accidentally uses a permanent marker on a whiteboard - just take a whiteboard marker and write/scribble over the marks on the bricks, then wipe off with a cloth or something while it is (...) (23 years ago, 7-Nov-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | Re: Best way to remove marker pen from Lego? —Tom Williams
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| | | | You could try eucalyptus oil, i've used it and it works. TOM. (...) (23 years ago, 7-Nov-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | | Re: Best way to remove marker pen from Lego? —Kerry Raymond
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| | | | (...) those (...) on (...) Actually, it seems that the washing machine did make a difference. I had washed with bleach, and although the marks were still on the bricks when they came out of the wash, they did rub off with one of those kitchen pot (...) (23 years ago, 8-Nov-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | | | | | Re: Best way to remove marker pen from Lego? —Richie Dulin
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| | | | (...) Interesting... my experiments with removing LEGO printing from slopes, using brasso, an old T-shirt and a lot of elbow grease, completely removed the texture from the sloping brick. Maybe you could use a coarser abrasive on normal bricks, and (...) (23 years ago, 8-Nov-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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