A little while back I made this Mardi Gras Mayhem pen and about five minutes after finishing it the cap wouldn’t stay on. It would thread on – sort of – but you could slip it right off.
So why did this happen? Well, I – in all of my wisdom and brilliance – made the end of the section about a 1/2 millimeter too thick. Instead of 13.8ish mm in diameter, like the back of the section was (against the barrel) it was closer to 14.3ish mm in diameter. So instead of making a quick measurement and turning it down a bit, I thought what a great idea it would be to make the hole in the cap bigger so the section could fit in there. Why? Well, you know, the cap has to fit the section – not the pen! 🙂
Today I got around to making another cap for it – clipless (those things aren’t free ya know) and saw why the old cap didn’t quite work out. So I turned the section down and made the new cap for it. Now it’s ready to give away to a student. 🙂
