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Pelikan M1000 - How many drops does your barrel hold?
"Brian Ketterling" wrote in message ink.net... In , LarryW wrote: I keep wondering if the pen I am thinking of, I am confusing for something else. I cetainly remember the name Wearever. It may be the other that cost a whole dollar. Maybe the 29¢ paper cutter has a different name that eludes my mind. The pen you describe closely resembles the dollar pen I often could not afford to replace. Any ideas [names] of some popular cheapo brands sold from early to mid 50's? I'm not sure, right off the bat. Wearever was kind of the "American BiC" of fountain pens -- they cranked out millions of pens, and they were inexpensive. They very well could have made pens like you described, that I'm just not aware of. All of the lower-range Renew-Points that Esterbrook put on their pens were either untipped (like their "flexible" #2048) or had folded tips, but Esterbrooks are pretty good pens (and they made a "Dollar Pen"). I don't know... maybe I'll stumble across a reference to a 29¢ pen. BTW: If you check out the nib tip, you will notice the absence of sodder. No one, to the best of my knowledge, ever tipped a pen with solder... or was that just an offhand term? Brian -- What I was trying to say was "soldered with irridium." I recall Esterbook as being a mid to higher range pen. Usually they were sold as a 3 piece set. Never saw the stand-alone dollar version. It's hard for me to think of any pen using irridium tips costing only 29¢ The name "Eversharp" rings a bell though. -LarryW |
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Pelikan M1000 - How many drops does your barrel hold?
On Apr 10, 10:42 pm, "Brian Ketterling" tweel6...@no-potted-meat-
products-peoplepc.com wrote: , LarryW wrote: I keep wondering if the pen I am thinking of, I am confusing for something else. I cetainly remember the name Wearever. It may be the other that cost a whole dollar. Maybe the 29¢ paper cutter has a different name that eludes my mind. The pen you describe closely resembles the dollar pen I often could not afford to replace. Any ideas [names] of some popular cheapo brands sold from early to mid 50's? I'm not sure, right off the bat. Wearever was kind of the "American BiC" offountainpens-- they cranked out millions ofpens, and they were inexpensive. They very well could have madepenslike you described, that I'm just not aware of. All of the lower-rangeRenew-Points that Esterbrook put on theirpenswere either untipped (like their "flexible" #2048) or had folded tips, but Esterbrooks are pretty goodpens(and they made a "Dollar Pen"). I don't know... maybe I'll stumble across a reference to a 29¢ pen. BTW: If you check out the nib tip, you will notice the absence of sodder. No one, to the best of my knowledge, ever tipped a pen with solder... or was that just an offhand term? Brian -- You are right! it is not solder. The tip is often referred to as Iridium. But it is an alloy of several metals. Nowadays, they even call it Rhodium. Each manufacturer will have his own formula. The tip is welded on. Solder won't stick for even a couple of minutes writing! In the stainless steel nibs the steel itself seems to be quite hard; so they can fold the steel and jamm it like a rivet. Then they grind it to a round or oval point. In the Italic or stub nibs they don't make a point at all; they make a wedge and the user can grind the square corners to suit his hand writing. The stainless steel nibs are inexpensive. They are even made of scrap steel strips after re-rolling them to desired thickness. However, consumers apparently love the golden look! So the nibs go through enormous polishing routines and "flash gold plating" that is a few decimal microns!!! So the "vanity" rules here too [Veblen was right] and the recycling refinement in technology is offset by the waste in gold. The flash Gold plating will come off if you rub the nib hard while cleaning!!! So much for the glitter. To provide some relative idea of costs, the stainsteel nib, as such, about costs about $ 0.01; the flash gold plated one costs about $ 0.10. The one with the Rhodium tip and flash gold plating costs about $ 0.25 for the maker, ex-factory. These costs are for a large size nib, such as what you would find in Shaeffer or Parker big size pen.The rest are distribution costs and retailer margin. These are figures from Indian nib makers. Thanks; love to hear more on this topic. from Bangalore, India. prasanna |
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Pelikan M1000 - How many drops does your barrel hold?
wrote in message ups.com... On Apr 10, 10:42 pm, "Brian Ketterling" tweel6...@no-potted-meat- products-peoplepc.com wrote: , LarryW wrote: I keep wondering if the pen I am thinking of, I am confusing for something else. I cetainly remember the name Wearever. It may be the other that cost a whole dollar. Maybe the 29¢ paper cutter has a different name that eludes my mind. The pen you describe closely resembles the dollar pen I often could not afford to replace. Any ideas [names] of some popular cheapo brands sold from early to mid 50's? I'm not sure, right off the bat. Wearever was kind of the "American BiC" offountainpens-- they cranked out millions ofpens, and they were inexpensive. They very well could have madepenslike you described, that I'm just not aware of. All of the lower-rangeRenew-Points that Esterbrook put on theirpenswere either untipped (like their "flexible" #2048) or had folded tips, but Esterbrooks are pretty goodpens(and they made a "Dollar Pen"). I don't know... maybe I'll stumble across a reference to a 29¢ pen. BTW: If you check out the nib tip, you will notice the absence of sodder. No one, to the best of my knowledge, ever tipped a pen with solder... or was that just an offhand term? Brian -- You are right! it is not solder. The tip is often referred to as Iridium. But it is an alloy of several metals. Nowadays, they even call it Rhodium. Each manufacturer will have his own formula. The tip is welded on. Solder won't stick for even a couple of minutes writing! In the stainless steel nibs the steel itself seems to be quite hard; so they can fold the steel and jamm it like a rivet. Then they grind it to a round or oval point. In the Italic or stub nibs they don't make a point at all; they make a wedge and the user can grind the square corners to suit his hand writing. The stainless steel nibs are inexpensive. They are even made of scrap steel strips after re-rolling them to desired thickness. However, consumers apparently love the golden look! So the nibs go through enormous polishing routines and "flash gold plating" that is a few decimal microns!!! So the "vanity" rules here too [Veblen was right] and the recycling refinement in technology is offset by the waste in gold. The flash Gold plating will come off if you rub the nib hard while cleaning!!! So much for the glitter. To provide some relative idea of costs, the stainsteel nib, as such, about costs about $ 0.01; the flash gold plated one costs about $ 0.10. The one with the Rhodium tip and flash gold plating costs about $ 0.25 for the maker, ex-factory. These costs are for a large size nib, such as what you would find in Shaeffer or Parker big size pen.The rest are distribution costs and retailer margin. These are figures from Indian nib makers. Thanks; love to hear more on this topic. from Bangalore, India. I was thinking "weld" when I stated solder. A lot is lost in translatioon. Two weeks ago I knew very little about fountain pens. I'd like to concentrate my effort to become fluent in this field. Perhaps I can devote a weekend to reading and absorbing the contents of nibs.com. Ask me anything about food, history, prep, nutrition etc., I am expert, but fountain pens - I'm still in first grade! -LarryW |
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