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  • Long-gone Labeling

    These appeared while I was extricating the 3-axis positioner from an old project:

    Migrated felt-tip pen labels
    Migrated felt-tip pen labels

    I’m reasonably sure those labels started with blue ink from my all-time favorite Ultra-Fine-Point Sharpie markers on address labels covered with ordinary matte tape. Fourteen years on, the X, Y, and Drive legends are pretty much indistinguishable.

    Nothing lasts …