toddlajoie
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OK, so I had posted a thread with my 2nd, 3rd, and 4th attempts at a closed ended pen that came out great, and mentioned that my first was plagued by a massive error in measuring the depth of the hold needing to be, which caused it to be a bit about 3/8 too short to fit the rollerball refill. I had figured when it happened, and this was later confirmed by Steve, and again suggested in the other thread, that I could drop the rollerball in favor of a fountain pen and have the short ink cartridges fit in the stubby body. The only problem I ran into is that the rollerball kit I used was Stainless Steel, and the only Fountain kit that WC sells in Sterling Silver, and while they are both silver-ish, they would by no means match. Removing the threaded insert on the closed end body proved to be, um, troublesome. I have extras, since the closed end only uses one of the 2 inserts that come with the kit, so I wasn't afraid of wrecking the threads, but nything that could get a good grip on it just broke off the area it was holding and did little to remove the insert. Finally once there was nothing left to grab hold of I decided to go hog wild. I found a bolt that was JUST BARELY able to be threaded into the insert (there are none of the original threads left at this point, just smooth metal) painted some CA on the first few rows of threads, twisted it on and let it set for a while. Then with a small wrench, and screwdriver, I pried the bolt off and the insert came with it (YAY ME!!!! nothing cracked in the process). After that, it was a quick assembly with the Sterling Fountain pen kit, and all is well in the world. it's kind of cute, and the peach color gives it a very "lady-ish" look to it that I think is helped by the small size...
