Modeling whatever I can make out of that stash of kits that takes up half my apartment's spare bedroom.
Bundy74 wrote:Was taking apart a pen for parts today and looking for ideas. What do you guys use pen parts for(springs, etc..)?
Nothing.
What kind of silly question is that?
Decide on what train minature item you need FIRST then look for an item to duplicate it.
Loather check your PM.
Driline.....
Back when ball pens used real brass tubing for cartridges, I used them to line the holes in the roadbed for the Anderson link portion of my point throw mechanisms.
The springs can be used for anything that might need a fairly soft spring in compression.
The barrels of the pens on my desk would make convincing PVC (white) or ABS (grey) pipe, 600mm (24") diameter, 10 meters long. A little paint would convert them to ceramics, or steel.
The cap of the Office Depot stick pen would be easy to modify into a base for a statue of the Town Hero. Just paint a plastic figure with greenish-bronze paint and install.
EVERYTHING is grist which comes to a modeler's mill!
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
lvanhen wrote:Driline, With the charm & manners your posts exhibit, you should work for a public relations company! When someone asks a simple question the next time, STIFLE YOURSELF DINGBAT!
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Driline wrote: lvanhen wrote:Driline, With the charm & manners your posts exhibit, you should work for a public relations company! When someone asks a simple question the next time, STIFLE YOURSELF DINGBAT!
Oh NO! Somebody get him his binkey!
spring, a spring switch.
ink container...piping, if it looks right maybe a firemans hose. Outer container, phat pipes on a refinery or industry.
loathar wrote: Driline wrote: lvanhen wrote:Driline, With the charm & manners your posts exhibit, you should work for a public relations company! When someone asks a simple question the next time, STIFLE YOURSELF DINGBAT!Oh NO! Somebody get him his binkey!
Someone stole Driline's pen for a model railroad project when he was young, and he never got over it...
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
OMG! Too funny! Looks like ole Dryline is a big cry baby!! The ''stifle yourself dingbat'' advice is right on!!, Poor ole Dryline must not have any imagination or he would've known that ANYTHING might be useful in modelling.
I take all sorts of stuff apart and save pieces, pens, butane lighters, old electronics. The amount of useful screws,springs and wiring in a typical piece of electronic equipment is amazing! I keep screws and springs in small containers and LEDs and wiring in my electrical box. It may seem like ''pack-ratting'' to some, but it's sure cheaper than running off to the LHS or ordering online everytime you needsome little something.
On our club layout we use the springs out of retractable pens under printed circuit boards that we use at module joints, the springs allow vertical and horizontal adjustment, I could possibly explain a little more, but last time I mentioned the club name my post was removed for self promotion.
Teditor