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by Clamchop 592 days ago
The "sanitary" replacement is a wax, I always just knew it as sortkwik (? It's been a while), that you dip your fingers in. I'm sure it's still a thing for literal paper pushers to this day.

Sanitary in quotes since I'm not sure a pot of wax collecting stuff from your fingers for months or years is much better than licking.

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Used wax all the time when I worked as a bank teller years and years ago
You can also buy a rubber or silicone finger tip such as this: https://a.co/d/iy5zNDe