Comment on While We're Repairing Things: Replacement Pilot Down Force Clip

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The concept is that if you slide it into your shirt pocket, the clip slides open and the pen closes. Bam, no more ink stains on your pocket.

  It’s clever, but probably not much of a problem since people don’t really carry around pens that way anymore.

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s twofold. That’s half of it. The other half is there’s a piston in the clicker button that pressurizes air against the ink in the cartridge so it’ll do all the usual writes-upside-down-in-space-underwater malarkey. Only without the need for specialized pressurized cartridge.

    Having the hold-open on the clip, separated from the pressurizer, probably immensely simplifies the mechanical design. And probably ironically makes it stronger.

    (And I carry my pen that way all the time.)

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    • Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How often do you find yourself writing upside down in space?

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      • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        He travels to Australia twice a month

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    • dumbcrumb@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thats actually pretty cool

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