What is that neon paint/marker/pen called

[slacktide_bitog]

that junkyards write on metal parts of their cars?

I need to get some so I can label the hose connections when I take it apart (changing valve cover gaskets on a transverse V6)

 

[Tegger]

It's called a "paint pen" or "paint marker".

 

[Samuraidog]

Glass chalk?

 

[KingCake]

Some use the actual little paint squeeze bottles. You can buy them in the art/crafts section at walmart.

Or you can buy a normal paint pen at a hardware store. Auto parts stores sometimes have them too.

 

[Nitronoise]

granger , mc Master - carr would have them

 

[Ethan1]

Search "Auto Writers". They're water soluble, so clean-up is easy.

 

[Doc8404]

Originally Posted By: slacktide_bitog
that junkyards write on metal parts of their cars?

I need to get some so I can label the hose connections when I take it apart (changing valve cover gaskets on a transverse V6)


Silver sharpie.

 

[SZR48207]

If you can't find anything, I can vouch for using the $1 bottles of craft acrylic paint at Wal Mart near the sewing section.

On a previous vehicle I had a nail puncture a tire so I used a dot of gray acrylic paint to mark it for when I would take it into the shop for repair. Long story short, that acrylic dot didn't come off until I bought new tires some 30k miles later. It survived wheel cleaner, weather, direct sunlight, etc.

 

[Colt45ws]

Originally Posted By: Reddy45
If you can't find anything, I can vouch for using the $1 bottles of craft acrylic paint at Wal Mart near the sewing section.

On a previous vehicle I had a nail puncture a tire so I used a dot of gray acrylic paint to mark it for when I would take it into the shop for repair. Long story short, that acrylic dot didn't come off until I bought new tires some 30k miles later. It survived wheel cleaner, weather, direct sunlight, etc.

I have a HK USP that I dabbled some of that same paint into the rollmarks on the slide and they haven't come off in several thousand rounds. Through scalding heat and cleaning and oiling. Still there, like the day I put them on.