modified Cigarillo with new SKM-88 click mechanism
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Alan Morrison
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The Cigarillo kit ... did you use the kit from CSUSA and then make modifications ?
Here's the CSUSA instruction sheet : https://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/docs/cigarillo_pen.pdf
That kit is based on two 7 mm brass tubes and a Cross refill .... did you stick with the 7 mm size and the Cross refill ?
If so, I'm wondering how you attached the SKM-88 click mechanism because it's too big to thread into a 7 mm tube.
Also, you would have had to add a spring when you converted from the twist operation to the click operation.
And then, the problem is that the Cross refill is not designed to work with a spring.
I'd be interested in knowing further details about the modifications that you made, please. . Thanks.
The Cigarillo kit ... did you use the kit from CSUSA and then make modifications ?
Here's the CSUSA instruction sheet : https://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/docs/cigarillo_pen.pdf
That kit is based on two 7 mm brass tubes and a Cross refill .... did you stick with the 7 mm size and the Cross refill ?
If so, I'm wondering how you attached the SKM-88 click mechanism because it's too big to thread into a 7 mm tube.
Also, you would have had to add a spring when you converted from the twist operation to the click operation.
And then, the problem is that the Cross refill is not designed to work with a spring.
I'd be interested in knowing further details about the modifications that you made, please. . Thanks.
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Thanks for your conversation, Bill.
I think that most of the questions I had are now answered.
I realize now that the DuraClick "long tube" (as you called it) is actually the PSI DuraClick SLIM.
Also, other people might not know that the Cigarillo (a CSUSA product) and the DuraClick Slim both use Cross refills. . I was thinking Parker refill all this time. . The fact that Cross refills are used here might be a sticking point for some other people as well.
One other point of possible confusion is that the DuraClick Slim starts out as a click pen, whereas the Cigarillo, as purchased, is a twist pen which you have converted to a click pen by adding the SKM-88 mechanism to work in the same way as in the DuraClick Slim .
Finally, the DuraClick Slim can work as a click pen with a Cross refill because PSI has jiggered around with the center band to hold the spring at one end while the other end of the spring bumps up against the black plastic piece at the top end of the Cross refill . . To me it was a foreign concept to think of a spring being used with a Cross refill. . But now I get it ! . Thanks again for the clarifying discussion, Bill, and for pointing me to the instruction sheet.
Your conversion of the Cigarillo to a click pen is quite innovative and parallels my own work (recently reported here on IAP) and the work of @DrD.
We have both been doing some work with the Berea Cigar, a larger pen, in converting it from a two-barrel twist pen to a single-barrel click pen.
Our work was motivated by a report in the IAP Resources (Library) done by Ron Hossack (2009) and contained in the file onepiececigarpen.pdf
I have recently expanded that work by using a SKM-88 click mechanism on the single-barrel Cigar click pen and that was reported just days ago :
The final finishing touches have now been added to this design and will be reported in the near future.
So, Bill .... hopefully you can see why I have been so intensely interested in your Cigarillo conversion to a click pen with a SKM-88 mechanism.
Our recently reported works have been very closely related, but I use the Parker refill in mine while you are using Cross refills.
I think that most of the questions I had are now answered.
I realize now that the DuraClick "long tube" (as you called it) is actually the PSI DuraClick SLIM.
Also, other people might not know that the Cigarillo (a CSUSA product) and the DuraClick Slim both use Cross refills. . I was thinking Parker refill all this time. . The fact that Cross refills are used here might be a sticking point for some other people as well.
One other point of possible confusion is that the DuraClick Slim starts out as a click pen, whereas the Cigarillo, as purchased, is a twist pen which you have converted to a click pen by adding the SKM-88 mechanism to work in the same way as in the DuraClick Slim .
Finally, the DuraClick Slim can work as a click pen with a Cross refill because PSI has jiggered around with the center band to hold the spring at one end while the other end of the spring bumps up against the black plastic piece at the top end of the Cross refill . . To me it was a foreign concept to think of a spring being used with a Cross refill. . But now I get it ! . Thanks again for the clarifying discussion, Bill, and for pointing me to the instruction sheet.
Your conversion of the Cigarillo to a click pen is quite innovative and parallels my own work (recently reported here on IAP) and the work of @DrD.
We have both been doing some work with the Berea Cigar, a larger pen, in converting it from a two-barrel twist pen to a single-barrel click pen.
Our work was motivated by a report in the IAP Resources (Library) done by Ron Hossack (2009) and contained in the file onepiececigarpen.pdf
I have recently expanded that work by using a SKM-88 click mechanism on the single-barrel Cigar click pen and that was reported just days ago :
BREAKING ! - A Kitless Single Barrel Cigar Click Pen using the Schmidt SKM-88 Clicker
I've be playing around with making an "almost kitless" Click Cigar using a Schmidt SKM-88 super-duper click mechanism. All that remains of the original Berea Cigar pen kit is the nib, the refill, and the spring. . Everything else, including the brass tubing, has been relegated to my "spare...
www.penturners.org
The final finishing touches have now been added to this design and will be reported in the near future.
So, Bill .... hopefully you can see why I have been so intensely interested in your Cigarillo conversion to a click pen with a SKM-88 mechanism.
Our recently reported works have been very closely related, but I use the Parker refill in mine while you are using Cross refills.
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