E57, I agree with the unreliable response on the silver stick. I used to use the printed words, till I found them going all the way around the pipe. The batches of the silver stick, were much better.
Maybe I got good batches at the time.
Anyway, the idea I had would draw a line straight down the pipe with either a heavy lead pencil, of even a sharpie that wasn't permanent. Something easily wiped off with Simple green on a rag.
I figure all I need is a colaspable 4" collar and some type of Dc motor as a feed system. You could put a stick at a time in and it would feed and mark for you.
Wouldn't it be cool if you could hook up a paint system like this too?
Think of the possibilities of running pipe in color?
I am just finishing a job, ran about 2500' of pipe, and of course scrapped some due to doglegs, and misbends on my part, but the line thing would of really helped with the rolling offsets, and the 4 pointers.
Thanks for the drawings, I'll tinker with the idea on the next job.
Dnk.....
