Had much success removing Sharpie marker?

[Jimmy]

I'm going to start selling/trading a few discs of mine, which have my name and phone number, mostly in the rim of the disc. Have you guys had much success removing Sharpie from discs. I suppose Acetone would be the way to go here, right?

[jmammo]

the mr. clean magic eraser works good.

[Jerry R]

the mr. clean magic eraser works good.

Any secret to dong that. I've tried it, but it doesn't seem to touch do anything.

[plshrk]

Acetone

[Midnightbiker]

the mr. clean magic eraser works good.

Any secret to dong that. I've tried it, but it doesn't seem to touch do anything.

Same here. no effect on the marker.

[kvanorsdel]

It totally depends. On some champ plastic I've received in trades I've been able to remove the sharpie completely with acetone. other discs acetone removes nearly all the sharpie, while others it doesn't even look like I tried.

From experience Gateway plastic has been the hardest to cleanly remove sharpie from.

Innova Champ has been hit or miss.

I haven't tried much Discraft but the Z I have attempted to remove sharpie from acetone has done basically nothing

[jmammo]

I have never used the magic eraser on new or almost new sharpie print. Only on older print that is faded. I probably should have said that before.

[corey115]

On ESP/Star and Z/Ch., I've had no luck.

Even if I use all of the elbow grease I have. (there might be a bottle close to you )

[ChUcK]

My theory is that the extent to which you can remove sharpie is directly related to the age of the markings. I can almost completely remove older stuff with acetone, and newer stuff just fades out a bit.

What would probably work the best is using whatever chemical Sharpie uses as their dye solvent. I don't have a clue as to what that is, though.

[tushamajig13]

Even if I use all of the elbow grease I have. (there might be a bottle close to you )

make sure you pick up some headlight fluid while youre at it

my experiences:

dx/pro d - comes off no prob
all premium (pro/champ/star, esp/z/flx) - very rarely (2%) the ink comes off completely...usually it is set into the disc
all gateway plastic - just as bad as other premium plastics

kind of a pain, but its like a momento from a previous dgolfer

[sleepy]

In my experience, denatured alcohol works better than acetone. It's available at any hardware store, next to the paint thinners/solvents.


sleepy

[SkaBob]

Bear in mind sharpie uses multiple inks, some of which are more difficult to get off than others. Normal Sharpies are a different ink than Industrial Sharpies...