Penman ball point repair

I had a customer who had a Penman set, a FP and a BP.  The ballpoint was dried up and is no longer available so I had to make something up for him.

I normally install a metal nose cone but because this section was not screwed in there would be no way to install a spring to keep the refill where it belongs so I had to come up with another solution.
The original refill just pushed in from the nib end so I ended up using a Bic stick refill.  I had to machine a new sleeve that went inside the original section and then drill it out to take the Bic refill. 

I know it is a Bic but at least this matching pen set is usable.

A New Year A New Body

Well now that we are into a new year I thought I need a new body.

Not for me but for my Bic .05 needle point pen.

 

It is not a bad looking pen but I thought I would like to dress it up a bit to match my 51's that I seem to have in my pocket all the time now.

I had some leftover ebonite that I though would do the trick for me.

 

As an added bonus I took the three bodies I had removed the section out if then and filled them with my own colored ink.

Because I kept the original snap caps I just cap which ever color I am not using that day and they ride in my pen case.

So now I have a Iroshizuku  yama-budo a dark wine colored and ku-jaku a light blue and a Pelikan green all set up in my pen case to be used.  As I find more colors that of ink I like I will just clean out more Bic bodies and refill them.

Royal Ball Point

I got this little pen a while ago because I thought it was sort of cute.

It is only 3 1/2 inches and does not seem to have any cap.

The refill was all dried out of course.

But I was able to cut down a Bic refill and now I have a pen that writes but no idea about it's history.

Anyone?

Bic Roller Ball 537RT

Staples now has the new Bic roller ball  537RT and after trying one out at a 3 day meeting I really liked it a lot but like always I wanted a better body for the refill.

So this is what I was able to come up with.

I had an old Parker clip in my parts bin so I built the pen around the clip.