[modeleng] Re: Pins-striping tool

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jesse Livingston" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 12:49 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Pins-striping tool


> When I made my model of a British Beam engine, I used my drafting pin and
> India Ink to put  pin-striping on the wheel spokes.  The ink worked very
> well and is of course water proof so it is still in place after several 
> runs
> under steam at the Adams, TN show.
>
> Jesse, (he of the hard head)
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Harry Wade" <hww@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:05 AM
> 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
>
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