27 Aug
2011
27 Aug
'11
10:42 a.m.
... But what I'd REALLY be interested in are a few
of those blasted
pens! I can probably machine some adapters and so forth on the lathe,
but I've never -- not even once -- seen a pen refill which was short
enough to fit in the holder.
I wonde if you could cut down a longrefil and remove a little of the ink
frm the cut end so it doesn't all leak out. And put that in a home-made
adapter.
Though that said, if Laszlo Biro managed to make a ballpoint pen in
1938, it should be possible to produce something similar with modern
machine tools. Getting the viscosity of the ink 'just right' might be a
bit of a pig though.
I wondef if you culd dismantle one of the old pnes non-destructively and
refil it with ink. That would give you the bllpoint part. Of course it
doesn't help in gettign thr right viscosity of ink.
-tony