Ironwood
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Here is my first attempt at a kitless Rollerball. I bought some taps and dies in one of the group buys a few years ago, finally got to use them.
It took me about 10 hours total, a fair bit of that time was taken up making the mandrels, and die holders. And then I wasted some time because I cut my first blanks the wrong length, they were a nice dark green crush blank, 2nd choice was this green chip blank.
I broke the first section and had to start again on that. Getting the steps in the right order helps greatly, otherwise things like this happens.
The next one should go a bit quicker hopefully.
The clip is stainless steel. The cap threads are 12x0.8mm 2 starts, the section into the pen body is 10x0.75mm 2 starts. The finial that holds the clip on is 9x0.75mm single start.
The diameter of the pen is 15mm, the pen body tapers to 12mm.
CC and questions welcome.
It took me about 10 hours total, a fair bit of that time was taken up making the mandrels, and die holders. And then I wasted some time because I cut my first blanks the wrong length, they were a nice dark green crush blank, 2nd choice was this green chip blank.
I broke the first section and had to start again on that. Getting the steps in the right order helps greatly, otherwise things like this happens.
The next one should go a bit quicker hopefully.
The clip is stainless steel. The cap threads are 12x0.8mm 2 starts, the section into the pen body is 10x0.75mm 2 starts. The finial that holds the clip on is 9x0.75mm single start.
The diameter of the pen is 15mm, the pen body tapers to 12mm.
CC and questions welcome.