[rescue] Re: [geeks] Cleaning out advice needed...

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Jan 22 20:44:57 CST 2003


On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 09:38 PM, Scott Newell wrote:
>>> Got an affordable source for pens for this honker?  I have one in
>>> storage
>>> and had given up on using it because I had not find affordable pens.
>>
>>   Pens are available from lots of places, but they're not cheap.  I
>> bought a very large box of pens (200 or so) from a surplus dealer a 
>> few
>> years ago so I haven't needed to buy any.
>
> Back in high school, we just machined an adapter to use common 
> rollerball
> or porous point writing pens in our plotter.  This works best if your
> plotter is so low-end that it doesn't swap pens without human 
> assistance...

   Hey, that's neat!

     -Dave

--
Dave McGuire           "Wear whatever you want...Just don't be surprised
St. Petersburg, FL        if you wind up with a blow-gun dart in your
                            prosthetic boobies."    -Kurt Huhn


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