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on another note, the gears at first were grinding a lot when returning the carriage, then they started working smoothly, now grinding again. likely the infamous pinion gear but that's gonna have to wait until i have the time to take it all apart. gonna try 3d printing that too

... such that the ballpoint dislodged itself into the pen tip. so considering i can't recover the original pens, i ordered some 0.7mm ballpoints & i'm going to try to devise a way to make them into brand new no-old-parts plotter pens through some 3d printing. digits crossed!

so i left the ballpoint tips soaking in alcohol overnight because there's still ink in the pen bodies (my stained paws are proof) but it wasn't getting up to the ballpoint tips. unfortunately not only did this not work, i ended up mechanically breaking the tip for my black pen...

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my ordinary life, ep 006:

@Atatra_Millie@twitter.com, about Aqua Teen Hunger Force: "i don't remember this veggietales spin-off"

refilling the pens also doesn't seem like such a difficult task after having opened them up, as long as i can find good water-based pen inks here i should be able to saturate the felt in them and flush out the ballpoint, then hopefully they'll work like new!

okay! managed to make some time to mess with it, and
- think the pens aren't completely dry but rather dried out. been soaking them inside and out with some alcohol and look how great that blue came out!
- definitely will have to replace some nylon gears; losing steps frequently

the models i have as of today are:
- Canon Typestar 10-II, thermal printing head, sadly a later cost-cut model that's not too exciting but works perfectly
- Panasonic Penwriter P400C, pen plotter head, serial interface, very exciting and needs some restoration

i can't believe i now own two different portable electric typewriters with vastly different methods of printing, i blame @AkBKukU@twitter.com's video on this Brother model for making me wanting one in the first place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae0tZ4uqwDY

sadly i gotta go back to work now so i can't play with this right now but gosh i'm excited!

i have a plotter! i can finally be part of #plottertwitter !

Panasonic Penwriter P400C, uses ALPS DPG-1302 plotter mechanism. keyboard needs repairs, original pens mostly dried up but the green still works! has RS-232 built-in so can be controlled from modern devices thru serial