How Do You Make A Fingerprint Dusting Kit?
If you’re curious about crime-fighting techniques, you can put together your very own fingerprint-dusting kit at home using common objects. Follow these steps to assemble your materials and detect your very first print. Step 1 Gather up all of the materials. This is all you need to collect fingerprints. Step 2 Sharpen a graphite pencil. Use the file to gently file away fine graphite powder from the point of the pencil. Do this over an index card to catch all of your powder. Repeat this process as needed until you accumulate about a thimble’s worth of fine powder. Step 3 Pick up the index card and bend it so that you can lightly sprinkle the powder. Look for the flattest and smoothest surface of the item or area you wish to test for prints. Gently sprinkle a light, single layer of powder over the surface. Step 4 Lightly spread the powder around with the paintbrush until you see a print begin to form. When you can identify a print, brush away the surrounding powder and scoop it back onto
