Our office wrote incorrect information in permanent marker on a Record of Survey.?ÿ
Any suggestions on how to remove the ink? We tried rubbing alcohol, which faded the ink but it is clearly still there and legible.
We don't need to remove the actual printed information, just the handwritten ink.
Not to indicate that I ever put anything incorrect on a record plat, but if I did: I removed the top layer of Mylar containing the illicit notations with an abrasive (grey) eraser, then prepared the exposed Mylar with liquid fixative or powdered abrasive and then reapplied the correct notation.?ÿ Good Luck.?ÿ?ÿ
The time you waste trying to figure this out could have been better spent on just plotting another Mylar!
I've seen a guy do this with an old-school electric eraser, the kind that's about the size of a soda can with an eraser wand sticking out.?ÿ It totally removed the ink, but you could tell the mylar had been altered.?ÿ You might also try a discreet amount of brake cleaner on a sample page.?ÿ I use that to clean plotter rollers and it totally obliterates anything on them.
Plus one for this. In engineering office there was lots of correcting and updating of drawings.
We used curved scalpel blade to scrap the ink and top layer off.
And then priming powder if we needed to re draw over that area.
Could try white/mineral spirits, I use this for cleaning off permanent marker.
Your post gave me a flash back to my Navy days, nothing a little PD 680 could not clean up.
Acetone + Q tip
Most of us have gone through this process on our own work. Is it safe to presume that the record of survey is something that your office/department/organization prepared? If so, it is probably proper for you to alter it and some of the above will work. I suggest that you contact the oldest drafter or PLS around and have them help. If not, contact the original surveyor and have them print a replacement and enter it into the record with a note as to why. If you are trying to alter someone else's work, I cannot help.?ÿ
Electric eraser as above but with a solvent impregnated eraser;?ÿ they were blue green if I'm recalling correctly.
If you can find them, the soft yellow eraser sticks were the best, but at the price on Amazon you can reprint a lot of mylar.
https://www.amazon.com/Koh-I-Noor-Rapidograph-Yellow-Imbibed-Eraser/dp/B0069A0PRI
We have to print mylars for record plats. The township, owner and notary sign them before they go to the county. If the county sees an issue before filing, they will ask for a revision. This has to be done by hand otherwise the mylar has to get recirculated to all the agencies for signatures again.
Our office wrote incorrect information in permanent marker on a Record of Survey.?ÿ
Any suggestions on how to remove the ink? We tried rubbing alcohol, which faded the ink but it is clearly still there and legible.
We don't need to remove the actual printed information, just the handwritten ink.
Electric eraser and erasing shield. Make sure you do not have anything with print under the mylar. I put a sheet of 8.5x11 white piece of paper under it.
It also helps if you dab the eraser on a damp paper towel. The ink comes off better and you don't overheat the mylar.
Otherwise, eradicate is an option, but you're redoing the linework also.
WD40 should work
Most permanent marker will come off skin and other surfaces by using some oil based product like skin cream.
Then it is necessary to clean that oily substance off the mylar.
Too much electric erasing can scorch the mylar.
If the county sees an issue before filing, they will ask for a revision. This has to be done by hand otherwise the mylar has to get recirculated to all the agencies for signatures again.
Um...technically, that would be fraud -- the signers signed a document that is no longer what it was when they signed it, yet their signatures purport to establish their endorsement of the document as altered. I understand the desire to speed things along, but this is not a process that I can recommend.
In Alaska when a plat is recorded, the recording office writes information on the plat. The wrong plat number was written on it - so we needed to fix it before it was put into the public record.
Nothing is written that alters the surveyed information on the mylar.
UPDATE: After a surprisingly enjoyable science experiment, we discovered that both acetone and WD-40 worked wonders for removing the permanent markers our office uses! We're going to go with acetone in the unlikely event this happens again - applying with a q-tip made it easier to contain what was erased.
Thanks for all your suggestions! ????ÿ