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Anonymous #1
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Is there a proper or best way to wipe fingerprints?
#19313424 - 12/22/13 07:43 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Is there a good FAQ on protocol for erasing fingerprints?
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: Is there a proper or best way to wipe fingerprints? [Re: Anonymous #1]
#19313672 - 12/22/13 09:01 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I would use a solvent like isopropanol, vodka or ammonia. Windex would be good.
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Anonymous #2
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Re: Is there a proper or best way to wipe fingerprints? [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#19327782 - 12/26/13 06:42 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Don't need a solvent. Anything will smear your prints enough to be unusable.
Best to just not leave them in the first place though. Pretty hard to remember everything you touched and where you touched it.
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Re: Is there a proper or best way to wipe fingerprints? [Re: Anonymous #2]
#19331693 - 12/27/13 04:10 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Anonymous said: Don't need a solvent. Anything will smear your prints enough to be unusable.
Best to just not leave them in the first place though. Pretty hard to remember everything you touched and where you touched it.
This. The best way to deal with fingerprints is to consider yourself in a red or green, hot or cold situation. Always put your gloves on BEFORE entering a red/hot situation and leave them on until you exit that situation.
Keep it clean.
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Re: Is there a proper or best way to wipe fingerprints? [Re: Humility]
#19342115 - 12/29/13 03:26 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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A small amount of moisture will absorb the oils and blur the print. There can even be enough humidity in the air to ruin a print. So fingerprints are easily removed with anything wet.
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Anonymous #2
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Re: Is there a proper or best way to wipe fingerprints? [Re: Deemstar]
#19353631 - 01/01/14 03:28 AM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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Wet, dry, it doesn't matter. Unless you directly touch the surface and remove your finger straight off the print will already be smudged anyways. If you touch things with a smearing motion you can avoid usable prints in the first place. (slide off instead of release)
The real world is not like CSI. They usually don't print anything unless they already have a suspect. Prints at the scene are only useful if there is no legal or reasonable way you could have been there at any time anyways.
Printing a scene is very rare for anything less than murder. They don't bother unless they're actually willing to find and question the dozens to hundreds of people who left prints there.
Oil smears easily, any wipe will do. If you want a solvent then use something non-polar to dissolve the oil, then you don't have to wipe them off, you could just spray it on. Most non-polars stink though, so you might want to try something pleasant smelling like limonene (oranges) or some other commercial degreaser.
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Re: Is there a proper or best way to wipe fingerprints? [Re: Anonymous #2]
#19356744 - 01/02/14 12:16 AM (10 years, 29 days ago) |
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...and be sure not to leave any bloody thumbprints.
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Edited by ch1ck3n.s0up (01/02/14 12:16 AM)
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Anonymous #3
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Re: Is there a proper or best way to wipe fingerprints? [Re: ch1ck3n.s0up]
#19369808 - 01/04/14 07:00 PM (10 years, 26 days ago) |
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I have a small wart on my thumb and I been cutting it with a knife trying to get the wart off but missing, will that show up in my prints,.
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Re: Is there a proper or best way to wipe fingerprints? [Re: Anonymous #1]
#19662169 - 03/07/14 05:13 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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Wear gloves and you won't have this problem.
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Anonymous #3
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Re: Is there a proper or best way to wipe fingerprints? [Re: spore baby]
#19662188 - 03/07/14 05:27 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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I have since cut the wart completely off and it hasn't grown back since. That post I made was a while ago. It's gone now. It bleed kinda when I did it.
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