[modeleng] Re: Pins-striping tool

Same from me Jesse, glad you're OK.

Cheers Jeff Dayman


>From: "Lee Grant" <leegrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [modeleng] Re: Pins-striping tool
>Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:26:58 +1100
>
>Welcome Back Jesse
>
>Lee
>----- 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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