Why erase the ink when you can just erase the paper?
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I mean... it kinda erased ink by destroying the paper under the ink... so... yeah...
It was just an easier to use version of sandpaper.
It was for erasing typewriter ink, not pens.
You could actually erase typos on a typewriter, not just throw out the paper.
Those did suck, until erasable pens came around and they changed what the blue stuff was made of, if memory serves. I remember those early erasable pens that had a similar blue eraser in the cap.. usually only worked if you wrote lightly, but the ink tended to be kinda thick and required force to write.. so you’d always have that blue smudge left over and could probably read what was written anyway.
On a related side note, has anyone tried the frixion line of erasable pens? I got them for my knockoff rocketbook (a planner-size notebook of “paper” made from stone fiber, in which you can erase special pens like frixion using water, like wet erase markers, or the eraser, and reuse the paper indefinitely) and even on regular paper they are just amazing to erase. Every color comes off cleanly, and the eraser is just a rubber nub of some sort that doesn’t wear out.
Oh man those Frixion pens are by far the best erasable pen. They run out super quick and are not cheap at all but they have the most consistent ink, vibrant colors and leave almost no visible residue when erased - mostly just a pen indent left over. Those pens got me through some of my toughest university courses with style and flare... My notes were beautiful.
Important tip with those though... The magic disappearing ink affect is triggered by heat which is usually generated by their special rubber eraser. But there's a catch! if you, for example, forgot all your notes in the trunk of your car in direct sun on a hot summer day... It produces enough heat to cause all the ink to disappear.... Ask me how I know that.
I use frixion pens and highlighters on regular paper for my notes. I have Rocketbook, but I've learned I don't look at my notes ever again if they are digital 😅
I don’t have the digital thing, just the notepad. I wouldn’t use the digital stuff either. Mines got a section of fully blank, a section of graph dots, and a section of lined stuff, so it’s pretty good for notes, rough drawings, and doodles, then after whatever thing isn’t needed anymore, wipe clean :)
I got it for work, I needed to make scribble notes all the time and hated wasting paper for it.
I thought rocketbook "paper" was made of plastic. And since stone fiber sounded like asbestos, I googled it. The web says it's polyester.
I wouldn’t know, I have a different product that works similarly.
It’s more like fiberglass or compressed rockwool than asbestos, according to the product information from when I bought it years ago, but who knows.
Anyone else remember how gritty the blue part was?
Only made the mistake of chewing on one once..
I had the taste of it in my mouth as soon as i saw the pic.
Edit: Even more the smell. It's like there's one under my nose right now.
Such a great movie.
“Dying slowly in America after all, can be a very expensive proposition.”
I always thought that was a notable line for a Canadian actor to deliver.
Red light! Green light!
Thanks ! I was searching what was the catch phrase all morning.
No one ever talked about what the white part in the middle could erase though.
That was the snack part
I've never seen the white part in this type of eraser before; just the slanted red and blue combo
It can erase the fabric of space.
Erase-able ink, yeah.