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Oct
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The first day of October is here. That, of course, means that the liquid elixir of life will be flowing freely at fine establishments everywhere.
Stop thinking like a college freshman for a minute – I’m not talking about beer – I’m talking ink. the liquid that fuels the pens that fuel our passion for this hobby. Nearly 400 different shades of the stuff are now on sale during the first ever InktoberFest at The Pear Tree Pen Company! Now through October 15th, you will receive 25% off the purchase of 3 or more ink-related items. What’s an ink-related item? Any brand of bottled ink, cartridges, ballpoint or rollerball refills, as well as converters and Write-Fill kits. And yes, some may argue that a journal or a pen is, by nature, ink-related, but they’re not included in the sale…
Oct
1
ver wonder what a pen repairer does when off duty? This picture shows where I spent part of the Sunday a week and a half ago, before the NY/NJ show.
What’s not intuitively obvious is that the bendy piece of brass rod is a replacement for the flush lever from the toilet in our back bathroom. It’s a side-lever design, and the original flush lever had a hole drilled through it for a pin to keep it in place. It corroded at that point, and one of our elves found himself one morning with a toilet flush handle in his hand. I bought and adapted one of the “universal” flush lever kits that you find at Home Depot, but it wasn’t universal enough, and it wouldn’t stay working. So I bought a length of brass rod. After bending up the rod and mashing and drilling its distal end for the flapper ball’s chain, I discovered to my dismay that the broken stub that was still attached to the lever (also in the picture) wouldn’t come out of the handle…