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White and Red
Matt
1. White
2. Black
3. Red
4. Blue
Sometimes blue is #3 and red is #4. Sometimes black is #1. Once red was #1, but it wasn't there long.
You change a lot, eh/Chalk it up to the wether
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I'm like the wind.
Actually, I only recently discovered black and white chalk, and like using them a lot. My crew mostly carries blue and red. So, depending on who's line we're using, it's either black or red for permanent, white or blue for temporary.
What's your favorite?
Not one of those things I think about.I opened the thread thinking it was another mis-spelling of caulk andthat I might learn about a new kind.
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My current fav is blue. But that's only because they haven't come up with a nice teal color, or maybe mauve.
A true friend is one who is always there. Which is why I prefer enemies, because they pretty much leave you the hell alone.
You can mix the red & blue for mauve, but you may need to add a little white to get just the shade you are looking for...
You're right about the need for teal, though!
" I only recently discovered black and white chalk"Only recently!I have been using white chalk since first grade. And that was a long, long time ago.I qaulify for Boss's Old Geezer thread.
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
Ive used them all for various things but ive nevered used the white, where and what does it work best on?
for wall layout on plywood deck i like red.
used flourescent orange once didnt like it at all.
We used white on some white pine plank floors to line up the fasteners, then vacumned it off before finishing
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White chalk is great when you don't want to leave any trace of a line after the fact.
On a finished wall, on carpeting, or on dark surfaces.
Tajima brand is a good white chalk. Some are very coarse and leave a large, dirty line...buic
I though both you and Piffin were older than chalk?
No, no, no...
It's their bones that are like chalk.
Yellow, but only because I inherited 2 gross of it in nice wooden boxes from my father.
Oh wait a moment, I thought you meant stick chalk not box chalk.
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I like the kind that come in big fat sticks. Put a cpl a stix in a sock and stomp on it into powder then swing and hit people with the sock on Halloween.
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Right now, I'm looking for a nice emerald green chalk. I saw a little FHB piece about a month ago that mentioned it.
Loewe's only sells blue. HD has blue and yellow. Perhaps you can judge the quality of a lumber yard by the variety of chalk colors they sell.
I tried mixing blue and yellow to get green but got a pasty gray. This wouldn't work very well on concrete.
I worked at a seaside resort for 15 years. They had concrete stairs leading down to the beach. Whomever installed the handrail used red chalk. As far as I know, it is still plainly visable despite crashing waves and sand and sun and all that. Red is permanent.
Where can you buy green chalk in San Diego?
~Peter
Have you tried Tool Depot? I know Dixieline has other colors besides blue and red, I believe orange and black. Tool Depot carries the Tajima stuff, so they may have other colors.-KitTechnique is proof of your seriousness. - Wallace Stevens
Alsa, Tool Depot doesn't have green chalk. Furthermore, the only laser measuring device they had was the Stanley FatMax. I could have got that cheaper at Home Depot. At least they had Wright 8 point sockets.
Odd that some other Breaktimer lives in San Diego.
~Peter
It is odd, in a way. The board seems dominated by East Coasters. Where do you live? We're in North Park. I've been working primarily in La Jolla, with a few projects up and down the coast from there.-KitTechnique is proof of your seriousness. - Wallace Stevens
I hate it when these good threads degenerate into person to person banter. I live just west of Balboa Park right under the flight path to Lindberg Field.
Thus I have noticed, in certain humidity condition, that vortexes are formed by airplane wings right at the end of the flaps. They are about 4' or 6' in diameter and drift off. Sometimes they hit the ground and cause a loud whipperblast. Cat, the cat human, does not like this.
~Peter
<Thus I have noticed, in certain humidity condition, that vortexes are formed by airplane wings right at the end of the flaps. They are about 4' or 6' in diameter and drift off. Sometimes they hit the ground and cause a loud whipperblast. Cat, the cat human, does not like this>
Thanks for getting everyone back on track.
Forrest
use concrete color in the powdered form, available at any brickyard. I've used red for about 10 years on roofs.
Yes, use different boxes.
I use white when doing stair hand rails. Just snap a line on finished wall. The white chalk has a very, very lite pink tint and can be brushed off.You get out of life what you put into it......minus taxes.
Marv
http://www.toolbarn.com/category/chalkline/
here's your link for green chalk.
i have for chalk lines that are purple, and one that's blue.
Every day is a gift, that's why it's called the present.
So how come red chalk is permanent, but red cars and red roofs fade in the sun?????
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So do you all have different boxes for all these different colors?I run primarily blue now, but I think I still have a box for red somewhere.
I always keep red, white and blue handy.Patriotically,
Jerry
So do you all have different boxes for all these different colors?
Yes--plus I usually have at least one box of purple, when I fill a blue box with red chaulk or vice versa....
white + red = PINK!!
i like the way you roll, billy
I use blue, but I re-threaded my chaulk line with braided dacron 50# kite line. (had some 'cuz I used to build kites) Leaves a crisp line, but second snap is a bit faint. Doesn't carry as much as twisted stock lines.
Timberframer I worked for had a hiarchy of colours,, first blue, then red, then black. If you needed a fourth,, you should just call it a day. This applied to lumber pencils as much as anything, when hogging out mortises and tennons.