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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 6123631" data-attributes="member: 14159">I need some serious advice on cleaning my gaming mat.  It's a Chessex Megamat, one of the one-sided ones they don't make anymore.Back in summer of '06 I bought it, used it for a while for various games, and then as my life was getting a LOT busier I packed it up.I had tried to find it several times, and presumed it lost.  Well, two moves later, while packing for a third move (finally into an actual house, with a wife and kid I didn't have when I packaged it up years ago), I find it folded up and packed away in a corner.I unfold it (yeah yeah, I know about folding them, a case for it was on my "to do" list 6+ years ago) and find that apparently in it's last use I hadn't erased it.  It still had some Star Wars-type deck plans for a freighter drawn on it.  Also, how I folded it over apparently caused the drawing to transfer over to another part of the mat.I first used just plain water.  That washed out some of the dye.  More specifically it made the drawing go from purple to blue as apparently one of the dyes in that marker was easily water soluble, the other not so much.I tried a detergent solution, which had little to no impact.  I also tried rubbing alcohol, which again had minimal impact.There are faded, but quite visible, blue lines on the mat in two places.  As to the markers, again, as I recall I was using Crayola Washable Markers at the time, under the idea that they were water based and "washable" so I could clean them up off the mat easier.I would hate to have to buy another mat, especially since I honestly don't actually game as much as I used to anymore and have really cut down on my gaming purchases in favor of expenses like gas, food, and bills.</blockquote>

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