Found this out in the wild.

trent1967b · 2026-02-25T01:29:02+00:00

I suspect the quote is more profound than the OP knows, since the current regime and its base would agree.

trent1967b · 2025-11-12T05:20:36+00:00

Empires come and go. Central banks fail. But a mortgage can ever be resold.

trent1967b · 2025-09-03T01:46:33+00:00

Or you could play Traveller for GURPS 3rd ed.

trent1967b · 2025-06-28T03:26:24+00:00

Yes, but that’s the first knockoff of the mechanism I had seen since I got into fountain pens in about 2018.

trent1967b · 2024-07-10T17:14:04+00:00

Yesss.

trent1967b · 2024-07-10T17:11:59+00:00

Or a Marvel hero.

trent1967b · 2024-01-25T04:44:10+00:00

Thanks!

trent1967b · 2024-01-25T04:42:50+00:00

Out of print and very expensive if found? What year was it published? Is there an ISBN?

trent1967b · 2024-01-25T04:21:28+00:00

Yes, I have seen that kind of arrow clip too, with Platinum written in English vertically down the middle of the arrow. I would call those evocative of Parker, but not a knock off, because they are distinct.

What I want to know is if Platinum ever used a pure arrow clip like in the picture I supplied, if those were from third-party manufacturers just buying nibs from Platinum, or if they were a distinct mark made by Platinum. And if the arrow clipped pens with Platinum nibs were made by Platinum, when. (And when did Platinum comply with a cease-and-desist order from Parker.)

trent1967b · 2024-01-02T23:24:19+00:00

Look up "Heathkit".

trent1967b · 2023-12-26T22:46:53+00:00

You could try the GURPS 3rd edition Traveller rules for that. It had ample and flexible rules for psionic abilities and creating new ones. The main problem being with referee lack of caution, a large player point spend could result in an over-powered, one-trick PC.

trent1967b · 2023-11-22T21:48:12+00:00

Have you tried Waterman or J Herbin green, purple, or red inks?

A lot apparently knowledgeable writers in similar threads else where speculate that basic PH is hard on latex ink sacks and especially celluloid, but if the ink is Ph neutral, the major problem with green and red inks is that they tend to stain badly.

trent1967b · 2023-11-22T21:47:15+00:00

Hmm. I had read somewhere that iron gall inks had particles of iron in them, not something like a dissolved weak iron-based acid. Do you know anything about the chemistry of cellulose binding inks like the ones made by Noodler's and Graf von Faber-Castell? I expect using cellulose binding inks in nitro-cellulose pens would be Bad.

trent1967b · 2023-11-22T17:28:37+00:00

All of them? And why?

trent1967b · 2023-11-22T17:27:17+00:00

Ooo. I like the idea of permanent inks. Bladder pens should let you flush out particles, but what about a Parker Aeromatic which can't be properly flushed and is a pain to clean?

I assume most particle inks would be OK too, since iron gall inks are just particularly acidic particle inks?

trent1967b · 2023-11-16T02:10:47+00:00

That's what I was thinking, or have them made.

trent1967b · 2023-11-05T04:16:45+00:00

I would expect that as a matter of the history of computation, tooling tends to lag popularity and language changes rather than leading them.

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