Jeyes Quickies remove permanent marker from Charts
My wife was cleaning off her nail varnish on the sofa with little pads from a pink container. What on earth are they? "They're Quickies". Quite simply, they are cotton pads impregnated with acetone (nail varnish remover).
So as quickly as she said "get off" I got one of those permanent CD/DVD marker pens, put a mark on my 1:500 000 chart, and then with one wipe of one of these Quickies. The box it comes in is in a hideous pink box, so chaps hide these deep in your flight bags. The box does reseal, and I can resuse a pad several times (it comes with 20 pads inside). They cost about the same as a pint, available (I'd imagine) in most high street chemists and superstores.
I've tried dry whiteboard type pens which just wipe off, but they wipe off a bit too easily, and I've also used the technique of writing over permament marker with a dry wipe marker too (works well). I've also used nail varnish remover and a kitchen roll which is fine too, but can be a bit messy and smelly and it may not get past security.
No, I don't work for Jeyes, and no I don't wear nail varnish as a rule!