A better way to mark darts other than Sharpie?
#1
Posted 26 October 2012 - 08:25 PM
I've also heard that you can try using solvent-resistant wax markers, but I'm skeptical as to whether or not it will work. What are your preferred solutions for marking your darts permanently?
#2
Posted 26 October 2012 - 09:12 PM
You have some people that go to NIC wars with homemade darts, and a group that does HVZ style gameplay. (Ok, there may be a few other kinds, but those are the main two)
HVZrs mainly use stock darts. They write there names on them, and lose most of them in Missions so it doesn't really matter they last a few weeks. (They restock every event they have)
With us NIC war attenders, we all use different kinds of foam and pads. I have never been to a war where two people used the exact same dart style.
I use beige foam with green or white felt tips, and I usually put a "X" on the bottom of my darts, so at the end of the day when we do a dart sweep and get as many darts as we can. We then sort through them and everybody get his/her darts back based on certain types of foam. So it really isn't essential that we have marks that last weeks at a time, because we restock almost every war, because of dart loss in fields, and college campus's.
The industrial sharpie's you ordered seem like they may last a good bit, but still, probably not forever. I would suggest spraying, (Or dipping) The heads of your darts in some sort of clear sealant to keep the sharpie mark protected. (Not the foam, or it will effect the dart in ways you don't want it to)
Yeah, so that's my 2 euros.
The more the merrier (except if you're a 10 year old with a foam sword. In which case - the fewer the better)
#4
Posted 28 October 2012 - 01:18 PM
Off topic, your username reminds me of the Holocaust. Change that shit.
#5
Posted 28 October 2012 - 07:25 PM
Torukmakto4 on the HvZ forums suggests coating the heads with CA glue (superglue). He does it primarily to reduce friction, but he says it will help seal the Sharpie ink as well. Here's his technique.I would suggest spraying, (Or dipping) The heads of your darts in some sort of clear sealant to keep the sharpie mark protected. (Not the foam, or it will effect the dart in ways you don't want it to)
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Edited by Zorn's Lemma, 28 October 2012 - 09:26 PM.
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#6
Posted 29 October 2012 - 02:07 AM
A quick way would be to take an inkpad (like you would use for a rubber stamp) and use it to color the bottom of your darts. The ink should stain to foam well, and you can mark a dart in about a second.
Sorry, but without heat, the ink won't stick any better than the sharpie. With enough heat... You have a shriveled mass of useless plastic.
Off topic, your username reminds me of the Holocaust. Change that shit.
To whom are you referring? Because if it is the moderator I think you mean... You may want to remove that.
Torukmakto4 on the HvZ forums suggests coating the heads with CA glue (superglue). He does it primarily to reduce friction, but he says it will help seal the Sharpie ink as well. Here's his technique.
Coating the heads of darts in hard, brittle plastic is just the kind of idea I would expect from that guy. A bad one. All it will realistically do is increase the likelihood of hurting someone with broken plastic tipped darts.
Edited by Draconis, 29 October 2012 - 02:09 AM.
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#7
Posted 29 October 2012 - 07:39 AM
To whom are you referring? Because if it is the moderator I think you mean... You may want to remove that.
Oh well before he changed his username, the OP was "Knight of Broken Glass".
That's Kristellnacht.
#8
Posted 29 October 2012 - 12:57 PM
#9
Posted 29 October 2012 - 01:32 PM
Do you mean burning holes in the foam? As long as the holes don't go all the way through, this should work, as you don't lose any mass from the dart. Quote: "the accuracy" <LOLI have put tiny hot glue holes so it won’t affect the accuracy, but do that and you should be able to tell.
Personally I just use sharpie to mark H's in a spiral pattern down the entire dart foam.
#10
Posted 31 October 2012 - 07:04 PM
Still at it's core it's marking with a sharpie, but it certainly saved me a lot of time and effort.
#11
Posted 01 November 2012 - 09:49 PM
I'm going to give putting clear tape over the foam near the tip to see how it protects sharpie. I hope that works.
#12
Posted 04 November 2012 - 05:54 PM
There's no way for CA glue to reduce friction at the tip. That doesn't even make physical sense.
Sure it does. The CA glue forms a harder, slippery plastic coating over the soft, frictiony plastic of the dart head. I wasn't suggesting gluing the darts to something.
In fact, I tried it the other day. I got two T-code Streamlines and coated the tip of one with CA gel (because that's what I have). I then rubbed both of them on my desk and computer. The coated dart slid around easily, while the uncoated one grabbed the surface and bent before sliding.
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#13
Posted 04 November 2012 - 08:33 PM
It may reduce friction with a hard surface, but the effect will be quite small on air. The big problem with putting rock-hard CA glue on dart tips is safety. Even though the dart tip itself is soft, the CA glue will form a shell around it, making it almost as dangerous as plastic tipped darts.Sure it does. The CA glue forms a harder, slippery plastic coating over the soft, frictiony plastic of the dart head. I wasn't suggesting gluing the darts to something.
In fact, I tried it the other day. I got two T-code Streamlines and coated the tip of one with CA gel (because that's what I have). I then rubbed both of them on my desk and computer. The coated dart slid around easily, while the uncoated one grabbed the surface and bent before sliding.
#14
Posted 05 November 2012 - 01:16 AM
It may reduce friction with a hard surface, but the effect will be quite small on air. The big problem with putting rock-hard CA glue on dart tips is safety. Even though the dart tip itself is soft, the CA glue will form a shell around it, making it almost as dangerous as plastic tipped darts.
I never suggested it would reduce drag. The originator of the idea had problems with dart tips rubbing and getting caught on plastic parts of blasters (magazines, barrels), and CA glue fixed that. About hardness, he said it doesn't increase the hardness of Sonic dart tips because the CA coating cracks on impact and flexes*. The Streamline I tried seemed pretty hard, but I didn't shoot it at anything to see if it got softer after impact.
*potential eye scratch hazard?
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#15
Posted 06 November 2012 - 07:39 PM
Edited by Mr Hands, 06 November 2012 - 07:41 PM.
#16
Posted 07 November 2012 - 02:41 AM
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