Editing The Pen Addict 267/transcript (section)

== Fountain Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. All right. Next question from I Eric. I love the Uniball Vision Elite, but prefer metal pins. Are there any machine pin bodies that take the elite refill? Not that I've ever seen because the elite refill comes with a grip section. So you have to make a really elite only refill. Not even, I don't even think the TI Arto fits the Vision Elite. The Vision Elite is an awesome rollerball liquid ink pin. It's one of the top pins on the market for that style of pin, but their refills are gigantic. They're like full section and refill refills. You're just like unscrewing the back end of the plastic barrel and putting in a whole new front end. It's like a, it's like an engine change on a car. You're not just changing one little skimpy part. It's like a completely wide, huge thing. So I've never seen a pin barrel that's been designed specifically for that because of the way they design that refill. It's almost not worth it getting in, uh, getting refills for that pin. And I kind of think Uniball even thinks that too. You don't even see them that often, but they are refillable. It's just, it just doesn't seem worth it to me. So.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Tommy N song wants to know, are you going to thin out your herd before the DC show? And I've talked about this just in passing before. And the answer is no, because I just don't have time, but probably like this fall. I will after I get through August, August is going to be hellacious for me. Um, even September is going to be hellacious for me. Um, but once we get into the early to mid fall, I am definitely going to do a thinning of the herd because it has gotten, uh, the herd has grown quite mighty here. And, uh, there's definitely some pins that could, uh, benefit from a new home. So we'll do that. It's not going to be before DC, but, uh, I will let you know. And it's, it's, it's a couple months down the line before I even consider that. How about you, Myke? How's your, what are the levels of, uh, ownership you currently have? And are you needing to thin out the herd? Any, I'm feeling pretty good as me. I'm fine.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Like I'm fine. I have a bunch of stuff in a drawer that like could do something with, but it's, they're not massively exciting enough to sell really. Like I'm, I'm good with my, with my selection as it is like I have ample space to store in my little pen cabinet, right? Like I have, I could put like two to three times more stuff in this cabinet that I have solely dedicated to pens. So I'm good for the time being.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. You're, you're very good at managing. Uh, you always have been managing your collection.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, cause I, I tend to buy, I just, I just buy what I want where you do that. Plus you get sent stuff constantly, which doesn't happen to me. So, and I don't want it to either. Like I don't, I don't want people to, like companies to be sending me pens for this reason. Right. Because then I would just have too much stuff.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. Right. For sure. All right. This last question is from GR Parker and I'm not clear on the answer, but I think I know the answer. Can a titanium body pen be used as an eyedropper? I can't find a list of what metals ink reacts with. I think from our conversations with King Enabler, Thomas Hall, titanium is one that works. Um, I'll get some clarification on this for a future episode, unless someone can chime in the chat room right now with any links or anything, but I'm almost positive titanium is the one because I questioned Thomas when he said it, he said, you can, um, you can eyedropper this pen. I forget. We were maybe talking about like a Nemisu that was a full titanium. I was like, what, but it's all metal. And he says the, that titanium is one of the non reactive metals that you're able to eyedropper successfully. So I will work on getting a clear answer that answer to that, but I want to verify it. But I think my information that I've read or that I've seen, I just want to be able to find the links and, uh, prove it a little bit better that than that. But I believe titanium is the one metal that you can eyedropper and don't do any other ones, but I believe that is the one. So perfect.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. I haven't done it though. I haven't, I haven't tried. I haven't gone the metal eyedropper yet. Um, but, uh, a lot of people do.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Uh, I think about wraps it up for today, right? Yeah. I mean, I'm a little nervous that, you know, as soon as we hang up, that means next week is on. Like, do I, do I want that? Like right now, like when we're done with this, I'm like, we're moving forward and next week is happening, but I guess it's going to happen no matter what we do. Right, Myke. And it's going to be awesome.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We're going to have a great time, man. And I'm just looking forward to spending more time with you. That's not top of my list.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm looking forward to spending time with everyone, but you. So it'll be great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That works. We got it all covered there. Uh, thanks so much for listening. No, no, no, no. You said it now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm going to tell you right now. I'm going to tell everyone right now. I'm going to go on record. I love you, Myke. And I need you this week. So I'll be on my best behavior because I need your help. Yeah. Yeah. Don't forget that. Right. Like, you know, Myke's working, Myke's working for us. So I need his help. So yes, I will, I will, uh, rescind any, uh, bad things I've ever said. And, uh, you're, you're, uh, on my wonderful list because you're the best.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Thank you. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Thanks so much for listening to this week's show. Uh, we'll be back next time live in person from the DC Pen show. If you want to find our show notes for this week, head on over to relay.fm slash penaddict slash 267. You can contribute to the stationary wiki at stationary.wiki. You can send in questions to the show with hashtag ask TPA. If you want to find Brad online, he's over at penaddict.com and knock.co. And he is at dowdyism, D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M. I am at imike, I-M-Y-K-E on Twitter. I'm also imike on Instagram. And Brad is penaddict on Instagram. Thanks so much for listening to this week's episode. We'll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.

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