Ballpoint refill transplant

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!