Wipe clean felt pens

Make-it-3

Hope this is best place to post, its an odd one so no category particular suits. Mums, dads or anyone with particular stationery fetish or works in the felt tip pen industry!

I bought my daughter a wipe clean writing book from M&S, its pages are shiny plastic almost and came with a pen that rubs out. She traces the alphabet and its helping her learn to write. Absolutely loves it - but she has blunted the pen tip and can't use it properly anymore. I have asked M&S customer services where I can find replacement pens but they haven't responded.

I have tried ordinary felt tips and the ink just evaporates. I don't want any permanent marker types as we want to reuse it (as its designed to do). Can anyone tell me what type of pens I need to look for. I can then make my way to Ebay ....

cte1111

I think you need white board pens, they tend to be quite thick but there are probably thin ones out there too.

Make-it-3

You might be right there. She has a whiteboard on the reverse of her blackboard but I've never got round to buying pens for it. Maybe I can kill two birds with one stone.

msb5262

Yes, it's whiteboard pens you need. It is possible to get thinnish ones, if you think they would be better.

tyllwyd

http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/crayola-dry-erase

DomRavioli

Wilkinsons do dry wipe pens, they are about 35 pence each, and last time I got some, came in 5 different colours.

Counting_Pennies_2

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=263115721

You could pop these in your grocery order

Savvy_Sue

Make-it-3 wrote: »

I don't want any permanent marker types as we want to reuse it (as its designed to do). Can anyone tell me what type of pens I need to look for.

Everyone is right, however should you ever find that someone has used a permanent marker pen on a whiteboard, then the quickest way to get it off is to scribble over it with a 'normal' (ie erasable) whiteboard pen. That starts to lift the permanent ink, then you wipe the remains off with a cloth.

Richard53

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

should you ever find that someone has used a permanent marker pen on a whiteboard, then the quickest way to get it off is to scribble over it with a 'normal' (ie erasable) whiteboard pen.

... before hanging, drawing and quartering the culprit.

We have lots of whiteboards where I work, and lots of dry-wipe pens, but someone always finds the one permanent marker in the building and uses it to fill an entire whiteboard. However hard you try, the ghost of that message will always be there.

Slinky

I bought Sharpie dry wipe pens from Staples. Had to hunt for them a bit but found them eventually. I've got a magnetic whiteboard thing stuck to the top of my freezer so I use them for keeping track of the contents.

Funky_Bold_Ribena

Richard53 wrote: »

... before hanging, drawing and quartering the culprit.

We have lots of whiteboards where I work, and lots of dry-wipe pens, but someone always finds the one permanent marker in the building and uses it to fill an entire whiteboard. However hard you try, the ghost of that message will always be there.

I've always used wd40 to get that off; places with whiteboards should ban marker pens, that would make life alot easier!