Ballpoint refill transplant

For someone who loves to dismantle pens, I find it especially therapeutic to carry out refill transplants. It’s either when my favourite ball-point runs out of ink, or when I favour a pen body more than its ink, that I would want a change of ink.

To do that, I will raid my *pentry* to find a suitable donor, particularly amongst the free pens gotten from talks/seminars that write well. So when a match is found, I will trim the length of the plastic ink tube AND stick masking tape around it to make protrusions, when necessary; in order to model after the original. And it makes me happy when the new donor fits perfectly (and no rejection occurs)! Plus I don’t have to pay for anything!