[modeleng] Re: Pins-striping tool

For pens Harry, try a few drops of cigarette lighter fluid in your paint, 
this changes the flowing properties, runs a treat.

Dave.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Wade" <hww@xxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 2:05 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Pins-striping tool


>I saw this also, the moment they appeared on the market, and I wondered how 
>they could be successful.  I too spent many years pushing technical 
>drafting pens (such as Rapidograph, K&E LeRoi, Staedtler) around sheets of 
>vellum and although they were a godsend when compared to bow pens (which I 
>am also old enough to have used) they were not without their problems, 
>principally caused by contaminated or dried ink.  Relative humidity and 
>barometric pressure could adversely affect their operation and in any case 
>at least a couple of hours a week needed to be spent in maintenance to 
>produce consistent and trouble-free performance.
>
> Drafting ink and paint are dramatically different animals so far as 
> density and viscosity and it's always been my thought that "paint" simply 
> wouldn't work in a technical pen unless the paint was thinned to the point 
> of being ineffective, or some substantial alteration had been made to the 
> pen to allow it to function with the much heavier liquid.  Since 
> apparently the Moore pens do work (or they continue to sell without public 
> complaint) I have to assume they have been altered in some way from their 
> ink pen cousins.  Whether or not any of the above mfgs still produce 
> drafting pens I don't know.  I still have a box-full of pens and 
> replacement nibs . . . maybe someday I'll give them a try with lining 
> paints, but franbkly I am more likely to go back to the bow pen for this 
> as I know that will work.
>
> Regards,
> Harry Wade
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: clif.gwr@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>It always annoys me when I see the Bob Moore lining pen as it is only a 
>>type of drawing pen for indian ink that I used when I was a draughtsman.
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