Isn't there an ink out there that looks like mercurochrome? I can't seem to find it anywhere...suggestions?
Mercurochrome?
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Haha. Do they still make mercurochrome? I remember being covered in that stuff for 90% of my childhood.
Same here!!
Long gone....even it's substitute ,Merthiolate was banned....Neosporin is used in it's place today.
Mercurochrome was banned because it contained mercury. You can get Tincture of iodine or Betadine. I don't know if or how well Tincture of iodine would hold up on acid free paper.
The orange panacea.
How about Noodler's Habanero? I sort of remember Mercurochrome being close to this color.
I haven't thought about that stuff in a long time. My dad used it a lot when I was young(er).
I believe that would be Noodler's Dragon Naplam!
Tom
Tom
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That's probably the stuff, Tom. Thanks!
Send me your address and I will send you a sample!
Tom
Tom
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I wanted to follow up on this post. Tom (Airmech) was kind enough to send a small vial of Noodler's Dragon's Napalm for me to try. I filled an (eyedropper) Pilot Varsity and have been using it for a couple of weeks at work to highlight important information in my notes. It does the intended job! The ink behaves very well, with good flow and lubrication and very little feathering. The color seems highly saturated and is a match for mercurochrome -- like neon orange and hot pink are battling it out, and sometimes the result is more pink and other times it's more orange.
The only "negative" I've noticed is that it does tend to bleed through cheap paper more easily than the other inks I use at work (mostly Noodler's X-Feather and Montblanc Midnight Blue). It's definitely not a color I'd use to write any extended text, but it works perfectly as a highlighting color. Overall, I think this is a color I'm going to keep around.
The only "negative" I've noticed is that it does tend to bleed through cheap paper more easily than the other inks I use at work (mostly Noodler's X-Feather and Montblanc Midnight Blue). It's definitely not a color I'd use to write any extended text, but it works perfectly as a highlighting color. Overall, I think this is a color I'm going to keep around.
so how is it for cuts and scraps ?
