stuckinohio
Member
Here is something I started a while ago and never got around to finishing until now. This is a slimline pro click pen kit from PSI. It uses 8mm tubes, a parker refill and a "less than desireable to me" plastic click mechanism.
I threaded the upper adapter to accept the Schmidt click mechanism which is all metal and very smooth. I also deleted the center band. The aluminum piece you see in the picture is simply a spacer to the correct length of the blank. The nice thing about using this clicker is that you can make the body longer than normal and just make the spacer longer.
The blank is Flexigran from Richard Greenwald. I originally made two of these pens with an 8mm circuit board blank which looked great but one developed minute cracks in the resin as a result of the slightly larger diameter of the upper adapter after threading. I'm sure if I sanded or filed the ID of the tube down before pressing the parts together I wouldn't have had any cracks. I've included a pic of those as well along with a pic of the top adapter.
I threaded the upper adapter to accept the Schmidt click mechanism which is all metal and very smooth. I also deleted the center band. The aluminum piece you see in the picture is simply a spacer to the correct length of the blank. The nice thing about using this clicker is that you can make the body longer than normal and just make the spacer longer.
The blank is Flexigran from Richard Greenwald. I originally made two of these pens with an 8mm circuit board blank which looked great but one developed minute cracks in the resin as a result of the slightly larger diameter of the upper adapter after threading. I'm sure if I sanded or filed the ID of the tube down before pressing the parts together I wouldn't have had any cracks. I've included a pic of those as well along with a pic of the top adapter.