Technical Paint pen

What type of paint pens do they use at junk yards. Seems to write over rust. I need something i can mark seat brackets
On a floorboard for location.

 

welding supply should have it but soapstone cheaper

 

What Mark said above is what we used in the wrecking yards too.
This paint pen I get at the weld supply store is what I use to mark up stuff like the op is talking about. They have different colors.
I took the cap off to show the felt tip

 

I get mine from McMaster-Carr. They come in any size you can need from 1mm to 12mm wide and almost every color.

 

Got mine at bumper to bumper

 

I got a ballpoint bottle like Mark showed at my welding supply place. I don't remember what I wanted to mark the other day, but I couldn't remember what I did with it.

Gary

 

The silver ones are good for touching up that chrome-plated plastic dashboard stuff from the 60's.

 

Hello,

I have been using paint pens since I created some early flames on my brother’s red wagon. The flames were supposed to be claw shaped, but eventually looked like scallops. They stayed on for a while and then one swipe of the thinner removed the color/lines.

I tried to do something on all of our toys and on old metal surfaces like the wagon. During our 40 Willys days, we got a Walker Floor Jack from our friend in Los Angeles. But, as we used the jack and it was the lowest thing on the floor, everything bumped into it and the black silver paint started coming off or scraped off. So, out came the paint pens to do some touch up and/or custom flames, etc. They did not look too bad for paint on roughed up metal.

After doing a rough paper stencil on the backyard steel, milk can barbeque, the pens were used to outline the majority of the yellow color. I tried using a pinstriping brush, but I could not hold it long enough to make the swoopy lines even and not have to stop half way in curved shape.

Jnaki

I used the various paint pens on bare metal and painted metal for many projects. Pens can be bought at hardware stores or art supply stores.

The 3 Testors paint pens were used on non metal surfaces, but when I used them on bare metal, they worked well. But, I needed to sand the metal first to make it stand out. The silver paint pen is still in its original wrapper.


The liquid silver opaque paint pen was the best on all surfaces, metal, wood, plastic and anodized aluminum. The darker background was the best for contrast of the silver paint. Bare metal will not show through the opaque paint.


The other three opaque pens did their jobs on bicycles, skates, skateboard scooters and our granddaughter’s kick scooter. Flames and pinstriping were easy to draw, when I did not have to make straight lines on metal surfaces.


The fine line gold marker was used as a scallop highlighter as it was a fine point and not a larger felt point.

I tried many times on many different surfaces with each pen. The broader tip pens were ok for metal and put down more paint. but, those were too large for fine detail work. The finer tip gold and silver pens worked the best.
1958 model and 1970 model, smaller and more precise in brush hair texture.

I could lay down some short curved lines with a pinstriping brush, but I could not make a swoopy curve without parts and they never looked good. So, "pens in hand were worth two in the bush... to paraphrase an old quote..." YRMV

 

The tool venders that show up at every swap meet of any size always have paint pens of different colors for sale. Work great for marking parts so years later you know what they fit or what the bracket is for. Or for marking up parts for a swap meet.

 

As I remember it, yellow was the standard color used at junk yards for marking cores and other parts.

 

The local hobby store sells these. About 10 bucks for the pack.

 

The local Ace hardware / Ideal Lumber has them for marking wood, metal or what ever. I think they also have the Forney ones back in the welding supply corner.