LostMountaineer
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Grumble Growl Snarl Snap! I had a fun time last night turning and assembling helf a dozen PSI click pens, the ones that look like the Classic American.
Anyway I finished putting one together and the the lower barrel got scratched on the very first click! !@#@#^&^%&^*%! says I! So I got out my disassembly tools and struggled through that issue. Found that the brass got boogered up when I pressed the center band on. Spent a good deal of the evening with a chain saw file in my hands filing brass down. I eventually got them to work and my wif appropriate the Bocote pen with the twisted knarled grain!
Well I learned that you never trust your pen press, always always file the brass,and that if you take the cap off first the click mechanism will come out. Be very carefull and look at the mechanism because there is a plastic piece that gets seated in the cap nut. This will detach from the click mechanism and then the mechanism will fall apart in three different directions like it did to me last night.
Upshot is I saw a post that was asking about possibly diassembling click pens, it can be done but the real question is are they really worth it.
Anyway I finished putting one together and the the lower barrel got scratched on the very first click! !@#@#^&^%&^*%! says I! So I got out my disassembly tools and struggled through that issue. Found that the brass got boogered up when I pressed the center band on. Spent a good deal of the evening with a chain saw file in my hands filing brass down. I eventually got them to work and my wif appropriate the Bocote pen with the twisted knarled grain!
Well I learned that you never trust your pen press, always always file the brass,and that if you take the cap off first the click mechanism will come out. Be very carefull and look at the mechanism because there is a plastic piece that gets seated in the cap nut. This will detach from the click mechanism and then the mechanism will fall apart in three different directions like it did to me last night.
Upshot is I saw a post that was asking about possibly diassembling click pens, it can be done but the real question is are they really worth it.