17 May 2012
 

Ballpoint refill transplant

[Chapter: DIY + tutorials]

For someone who loves to dismantle pens, I find it therapeutic to carry out refill transplants especially when my favourite ornamented ballpoint runs out of ink, or when I favour a pen body more than its ink, that I want a change of ink.

To do that, I will raid my *pen*try to find a suitable donor, particularly amongst the ones gotten free at seminars that write well. When a match is found, the length of the plastic ink tube will be trimmed and masking tape will go round areas on the tube that require protrusions; just so as to model after the original.

And it makes me very glad when the new donor fits perfectly (with no rejection), in other words a successful surgery!

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3 Comments »
  1. From Jenny

    I would love to try this out!

    2009.06.18 @ 4:15 pm

  2. From rick

    Oh yah, it does save money. Thanks for the idea.

    2009.06.19 @ 3:00 am

  3. From Liz

    What a great idea. Genus!

    2009.06.19 @ 11:15 pm

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