Hack A Feed, Video

[watch_art]

i know, it's like watching a homicide! :roflmho:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN--tBxA9u0

Edited June 24, 2010 by watch_art

[smoores]

My 2.5 year old little girl kept asking me to play these videos again because she could hear a kid in the background. She just giggled because she could hear a kid "back there" as she said.

[Pen Is Mightier]

Interesting videos, please keep them coming.

[watch_art]

of course!

 

and yeah, that's my 4yr old in the background of both the vids. he was trying to help me through the end of the hacking one.

 

he's a great kid 99% of the time.

 

[irbyls]

Hey, I can hear your Arkansas accent. It's okay--I've got one, too!

 

Nice video! I wish I could attempt this, but I'm not brave enough.

[watch_art]

when i was a kid people would ask me where i was from. they didn't believe i was from the south. my dad is from Massachusetts and my mom is from Maine, so i had a weird accent as a kid.

 

do you have some pens you'd like to modify?

[esterbex]

Your son is adorable! I was so glad he didn't put his hands near that blade....would have had to raise your rating to PG-14.....

[eckiethump]

Very good demonstration of why some pens won't write well, and the at times aggressive action required to fully clean the feed channels. I appreciate the demo was to show a method of increasing flow, but the same principles.

Way to go with the youngster, we need younger people repairing pens, better eyes, steadier hands

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[Bo Bo Olson]

As a kid I learned an accent very quickly everywhere I moved to for self protection.

 

At nine, I went north from Texas to NY state.....Damm Rebel...got punched in the nose. I then went south two years later to Mississippi...Damm Yankee....got punched in the nose.

[stevlight]

Great video--your son is adorable.

 

Make sure you get all the little plastic shavings out of the feed before putting it back in the pen.

[79spitfire]

That poor feed bleed all over the paper!

 

*hehe*

 

I did this too, with a cheap Chinese pen that wouldn't flow. It worked.

[watch_art]

it does work. and great, too. i've done this to several pens.

[pen2paper]

that was red & black ink?

Your Holden is turbo-charged?

-for heavens-sake, lock up the sharp things, before you drift off for a nap..

absolutely, there's going to be a "just like dad" chapter II to this video:lol:

[watch_art]

that was red & black ink?

Your Holden is turbo-charged?

-for heavens-sake, lock up the sharp things, before you drift off for a nap..

absolutely, there's going to be a "just like dad" chapter II to this video:lol:

 

it's a red & black notebook i used as backdrop. and yes, holden is turbo charged, which can be fun and exhausting at times.

and don't worry, sharp things are out of reach, but he knows not to touch. you notice when i had the knife out that was the only time he wasn't fidgeting with the camera or my hands. ;-)

 

i hope he wants to make art when he gets older, he doesn't act too interested now, but who knows.

[ethernautrix]

Your video was very helpful, watch_art. I decided to re-seat my Delta Papillon's nib, per Bry's suggestion (pen writes, but ink flow was inconsistent, not skippy, just... slightly inconsistent), and when the feed came out easily, I was happy, cos I'd just seen your video, and so I can't say which improved the ink flow consistency, the nib re-seating or your feed hack, cos I did both. Heh. Thanks for making and posting the video!

[watch_art]

glad it was of help!

[WillSW]

Thanks for posting this, I just did it with a Pilot 78G so that my dry dry R&K Scabiosa would come out beautiful and wet. I think you should stress moderation, and it's worth the trouble to reinstall and test after every few strokes of the knife.

[nuke90]

Thank you very much, i did it to my pilot 78G, now it's perfect!

[alvarez57]

Love your drawings! I think I can do surgery in some of my pens. Thank you!

[SamCapote]

Very interesting. I was kind of surprised at how aggressively you hacked away at that channel, and unsupported holding up in the air. Gonna post a couple questions back in the other TWSBI thread. Thanks for this one. Surprised you didn't rinse off the ink to see better...lol!