[Rockhounds] Paint/Ink

[DonH]

kugeln at peoplepc.com wrote:

> Thanks, Pete and Axel. Axel, what's tensoplast?
> 
> Pete, I THOUGHT I remembered that we used model airplane enamel in the "old days." And India ink. Hard to come by the latter now, at least of good quality.
> 
> I'll try these methods. I've been using a rapidograph, but my problem has been getting either the label or the ink to stay. I take it the
> 


There is always the option of printing a number in small type on 
acid-free rag paper, and gluing it to the specimen with water-soluble 
acide-free glue.  This is reversible on non-water-soluble specimens, and 
it adheres an easily readable label to some otherwise rough and grainy 
matrices.

Best,
Don

P.S.  I think tensoplast is a kind of gauze bandage--I've seen old 
specimens with labels that look like the substrate is made of a bandage 
or other cloth, and they are dry and cracked and the numbers are often 
unreadable.