Marking a rope with a Sharpie...

[shansen345]

I have two identical rope/handle combos. I marked a small part of the handle line on one of the two (to make it so I can tell them apart) with a Sharpie without really thinking about it... Can Sharpie eat away at mainline material? Or should I not worry about it and ski on?

Thanks

[Horton]

@shansen345 I think you are ok. I have seen a lot of tournament ropes marked this way.

[shansen345]

@Horton

Cool - thank you!

[lpskier]

A small strip of bright duct tape wrapped around the rope works well and also helps identify your rope, handle, hanger, whatever else might get confused with someone else's gear.

[Edbrazil]

I used sharpie permanent markers a lot to mark ropes. Never saw any problem.

[ForrestGump]

The sun and water will break down a rope a lot faster than a sharpie will. Mark away!

[mwetskier]

sharpie ink is an alcohol based dye and your polypropylene ski rope is impervious to alcohol -unless you put the alcohol in *you* and then do something stupid with the rope. that aside, heres the msds for sharpie permanent ink:

http://www.officedepot.com/pdf/msds/517441.pdf