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  • How to indelibly label a very small object?
  • globalti
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    I’m hoping the STW collective wizardry can come up with a suggestion here. My elderly MIL is in a care home and she keeps losing her hearing aids. They always reappear, usually stuffed down the side of the chair in which she spends the days. Last Tuesday the care home brought in some agency carers and now both hearing aids have disappeared for good; we think an agency carer must have taken them away by mistake. Caring for Grandma is now even more stressful because she can’t hear you unless you shout very loud.

    How can I label a small plastic object about the size of a Brazil nut, clearly and indelibly? I though of buying a Rotring pen and hand-writing her name using India ink but is that indelible and will it resist soap, body lotion, sweat, humidity etc? Engraving would be good but might go through the plastic casing. I can print a small sticky label at work on a Dymo printer but the paper labels will get grubby and wear out and the adhesive will go soft.

    Any suggestions?

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    A fine Sharpie and a steady hand.

    yorkshire89
    Free Member

    Spray paint?

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    5thElefant
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    RFID

    stumpy01
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    Mix a drop of food colouring into some superglue & apply some to the hearing aid case?

    Obviously allow to dry before giving back to the wearer & probably worth checking that the food colouring still allows the superglue to set….

    Malvern Rider
    Free Member

    It only needs a dot (or two) of indelible marker/paint to render identifiable. No need for a name?

    yunki
    Free Member

    A blob of nail varnish will last longer than any marker pen I’d have thought

    jambalaya
    Free Member

    What Malvern and Yunki say – then let the care workers know. TBH I am surprised they haven’t suggested a solution as it must happen all the time

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    this is stw we can’t have all sensible suggestions…

    Pook
    Full Member

    How to indelibly label a very small object?

    Get someone pregnant with it

    DrP
    Full Member

    A bit of hot glue will have them stuck in granny’s ears for goot. Ergo, nil to lose.

    DrP

    mogrim
    Full Member

    A bit of hot glue will have them stuck in granny’s ears for goot. Ergo, nil to lose.

    DrP

    He’s a Doctor, you can trust his advice!

    sharkbait
    Free Member

    Draw on them to make them look like big dangly earrings.

    andyl
    Free Member

    You could use a focussed ion beam to write here name on there along with your name, your phone number, address and probably a lot more.

    Or how about just putting a dab of nail varnish on there, or two dabs of different colours and giving a photo to the nursing home staff so they know they are hers. They could use different colour combinations for different people. A bit like the colour bands on resistors.

    Drac
    Full Member

    Microdot like in 1970s spy movies.

    mattyfez
    Full Member

    Nail varnish painted on with a fine modelling brush?

    cr4sh
    Free Member

    +1 for laser marking. Anyone with a galvo laser will be able to make a small, permanent mark on them with minimal fuss and it will literally take seconds. Depending where you are I may be able to direct you to someone with the right kit

    miketually
    Free Member

    Or how about just putting a dab of nail varnish on there, or two dabs of different colours and giving a photo to the nursing home staff so they know they are hers. They could use different colour combinations for different people. A bit like the colour bands on resistors.

    Matching dabs tattooed onto your MIL will make it easy to identify her.

    Or, if there’s already a serial number or something on the hearing aids you could change your MIL’s name by deed poll?

    slowoldgit
    Free Member

    I have house keys colour-coded with nail varnish, it’s lasted a long time. So, then, some sort of bar code, or what football team does she follow.

    globalti
    Free Member

    Cool idea, we’ll get Grandma’s name changed to Phonak!

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