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bruce119

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This is my latest printed circuit board pen. It is a Sound Blaster card. I did it for trade for the guy that fixed my computer. He gave me the old card I gave him the pen. As I said before they are not easy to do. If anyone attempts it please protect yourself there are a lot of nasty stuff when sanding these down. You do not want to breath the sanding dust. This is a baron roller ball.

As always comments, criticism, opinions, suggestions all welcome.

http://www.penturners.org/oldalbums/bruce119/SoundCardPen02.jpg

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Thanks
Bruce
 
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Dalecamino

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Bruce , these circuit board pens are just totally remarkable . Thanks for sharing and for the warnings . But , I don't think I'll be breathing any o that kind of dust for a long time ! That's beautiful ! [8D]
 

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Originally posted by philbaldwin

.....Do you have a tutorial of how you do them, as i just don't get how you bend a solid PCB around the barrel.....

Check out the first post here and you will get the idea.

http://www.penturners.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=37023
 

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That is awesome! I tried one last week but I didn't cut it wide enough, so it didn't wrap completely around the tube. Plan on trying another today.

Do you have overlap on yours?
 

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The pen looks great. Are you going to tell us how it's done? I would like to try one without the threat of death.I don't want it to be my last pen.:D[xx(]
 

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Originally posted by rccrazybill

That looks Fantastic and hard as hell!
It sure is I only have about a 25% success rate. It can be very frustrating. [}:)]

Originally posted by Randy_

Originally posted by philbaldwin

.....Do you have a tutorial of how you do them, as i just don't get how you bend a solid PCB around the barrel.....

Check out the first post here and you will get the idea.

http://www.penturners.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=37023
Thanks Randy :)

Originally posted by wicook

Originally posted by GaryMGg

5665 7279 2056 6572 7920 6E69 6365 2E
546F 6F20 636F 6F6C 2E
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OK, Gary. That looks like machine code...but I've been away from it for too long to make sense of it...are you gonna clarify?
Bill I'm with you lost I don't work with or understand computers. I can tear them apart though. [8D]

Originally posted by RONB

The pen looks great. Are you going to tell us how it's done? I would like to try one without the threat of death.I don't want it to be my last pen.:D[xx(]

Take a look at the link Randy posted to my last one it tells a little. Basically I take the big stuff off the board sand it down paper thin and wrap it around the tube and cast it. Simple as that. ;)

Caution if anyone attempts this do protect yourself. As I was told there are some nasty stuff in the boards. Lead, fiberglass and who knows what else. I know I am covered in a fine dust when I sand one of these down. Oh and those little component thingys they still hold a charge cause when I am sanding I have to ground myself otherwise I get zapped with a ton of static. [:0]

Thanks for all the comments.
Bruce
 

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Hi Bill,
It's just hex.
"Very very nice. Too cool."
Binary would've been: 01010110 01100101 01110010 01111001 00100000 01010110 01100101 01110010 01111001 00100000 01101110 01101001 01100011 01100101 00101110 01010100 01101111 01101111 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101111 01101100 00101110

;):D
 

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Originally posted by GaryMGg

Binary would've been: 01010110 01100101 01110010 01111001 00100000 01010110 01100101 01110010 01111001 00100000 01101110 01101001 01100011 01100101 00101110 01010100 01101111 01101111 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101111 01101100 00101110

;):D

Sorry Gary,


Does not compute!! [}:)] :D
 

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being a computer geek with old computers laying around down in the basement, i am going to have to attempt one of these. any other tips and tricks you have for us?
 

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Bruce... I'm gonna echo whats already been said... that is just too cool! Is there ANYTHING you haven't tried to make a pen out of?? :worship:

Talk about RECYCLE.... LOL :bananen_smilies104:

Dave
 
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