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raynerd:
I don`t know if this is mechanical enough for this forum but as they say, this is "my ting" and fountain pens float my boat!  :headbang:

This is my first fountain pen from an acrylic blank. The nib and feed are sourced from a scrap Eversharp Skyline - the rest has all been turned on the lathe. It is a sac filler, so the section pulls out of the barrel, the sac is squeezed to remove the air and ink is sucked up and fills the sac. The sac is held within the barrel. The pen finished really well, I went up the grades of wet and dry then pinched the micromesh from my wifes acrylic nail buffering pad and then finally finished with a car interior plastic polish - very shiney, almost a glass finish.

Few issues - this is my first time using acrylic and trying to turn a pen in my life! I destroyed a couple of blanks in the process of making this one, but it was worth it as I learned valuable lessons. Even with this pen, I have many area to improve on! Firstly nothing is threaded and it should be. Currently it is all tapered and push fit yet really the cap and barrel should have a 36 TPI tri or quad lead thread and the feed and barrel should have a single lead thread just to secure it. Also, the excessive taper of the cap was not intentional and it reality should be more symmetrical with the end of the barrel. The notch on the barrel was to be engraved but after going to a couple of engravers today, noone could do it! Has anyone any experience with engravers - I want to get this engraved but don`t know the best way to go about it??











My next pen is set to be similar but threaded and with correct "cigar shaped" profile on cap and barrel. I also want to make an eye dropper filler - so I will produce a barrel that is about 1" too long, cut this end off, thread it, drill the barrel all the way through and then thread the section cut off to produce a blind cap. This threaded end section will then unscrew, ink can be squirted into the barrel and the blind cap screwed back in. More advanced but a neat and very easy filling system ....perhaps a piston filler or plunger filler would be better fitting with the mechanics theme of this site...maybe one day.

Thanks to everyone who has, in this short time I have been on here, provided me with lots of information. It has been greatly appreciated. 

ja2on:
 :bugeye: wow that is quite stunning
great work  :bow:
"36 TPI tri or quad lead thread" that sounds complicated  :scratch:

bogstandard:
Very nice first job there Chris, you should be proud of yourself.  :clap: :clap: :clap:

John

Darren:
I think that's a cracking pen, I quite like a good pen myself. Not that I have one these days....

That's a job well done and something to be proud of  :thumbup:

Bernd:
Chris,

I'm impressed. :headbang: :headbang: If you hadn't pointed out the slight engineering changes I would have never known. :thumbup:

I might just have to put an order in for a pen.

As far as engraving goes you could make your own engraver. If your interested I can try to dig up some pics of a home built one or two.

Bernd

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