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Default PAINT MARKERS - What's good?

PAINT MARKERS - What's good?
Not Milwaukee.

Many years ago in my contracting office I put up a 4x8 sheet of bathroom
board as a write board. I used it to write down contract jobs, and
service tickets so we would keep track of them and get them done.

It worked great, but in order to keep things straight we needed to put
lines on it. I asked one of my guys and long time friend about it and
he suggested a paint marker. We picked one up at a local (now closed)
education supply store and it worked fantastic. It worked great and
lasted for years. In fact it only quit working after it got dropped on
the floor and stepped on. I bought a few more and they were ok, but not
as good.

Recently I was thrilled when I walked into my local industrial bolt
vendor and saw they had Milwaukee brand paint markers hanging on the
wall. I figured i Milwaukee put their name on it they had to be decent.
I bought several of them. They may still have paint in them, but
after marking only a few pieces of metal they quit working. They are in
my opinion total garbage.

I'm looking for a quality paint marker like that first one I bought many
years ago. I use them for marking steel, coloring feather tips on
fishing lures, and of course I need to mark some lines on a white board.