Fine or Medium Space Pen

My main ball point pen is a Parker T-1 with an extra-fine Parker black refill. I used to carry a Bullet Space Pen with a fine black refill when wearing pocketless shirts, but I switched to an Inka Titanium Pen because it can be fastened to a key chain. The Inka refills are made by Fisher and are pressurized. I wish Fisher made an extra-fine refill. Parker used to make an extra-extra-fine (XXF) refill.
 
TN_KNIFE said:
I think they are cool and neat. I just don't particularly care that so much tax money was spent developing the product when a $.05 pencil would seem to work in a low gravity environment, too.

Maybe I'm wrong and maybe tax dollars weren't used (or maybe it's paid for itself by now?)????? If so, very cool.

I know this doesn't help the o.p. too much, so here goes: I can't stand pens that aren't fine, black ink. No blue, no red, no medium, nada. Fine & Black is what I'm after.
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The US never paid to have the Space Pen developed. American and Russian astronauts were using pencils, but they were messy in space and caused problems when the tips broke off or debris started floating around from sharpening. The Space Pen was developed and funded privately, and after its creation both the Americans and Russians adopted it.
 
Tsujigiri said:
The US never paid to have the Space Pen developed. American and Russian astronauts were using pencils, but they were messy in space and caused problems when the tips broke off or debris started floating around from sharpening. The Space Pen was developed and funded privately, and after its creation both the Americans and Russians adopted it.
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yeah the whole thing is an urban legend meant to illustrate the russians frugal efficiency, its totally bogus. The dust and broken tips become a big hazard and can even interfere with delicate machinery. Its just one of those urban legends that wont really die.

the creation was purely corporate and the u.s government contributed nothing to it.

@tsujigiri. You a kmfdm fan? or just a cool pic?
 
BenchmadeBoy said:
I like the fine point. I carry a bullet pen daily and I find the fine blobs less. I had to order them online as I can't find them local.
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Exactly my experience too.

I can buy the pens and refills here, but they only sell mediums.

I order the fine refills from the fisher space pen website.
 
I ran into a guy at a pen collector's meeting who had the whole set of Parker Titanium writing instruments that were developed to celebrate the first moon landing. He had a fountain pen, a pencil, a roller ball, a ball point, and a felt tip hi-liter. He said that he got them in England. I had only run into the fountain pen and the ball point. I have a couple of each. The scuttle butt is that Parker had problems deep drawing the Titanium and lost money on every piece (1970). They discontinued the production in less than a year. I have blobbing trouble with all the Fisher refills, so I only use them when writing upside down, under water, and over grease.
 
The Parker T-1 fountain pen has an integral point (all Titanium) except for the Iridium tip. The width of the nib (written line) is controlled by turning a screw on the under side of the feed. The fountain pen came with a small fan shaped screw driver.
 
Received a Stainless embassy pen elite from Countycomm the other day. Uses Fisher refills.

This thing is a beast of a pen. :thumbup:
 
tiguy7 said:
I ran into a guy at a pen collector's meeting who had the whole set of Parker Titanium writing instruments that were developed to celebrate the first moon landing. He had a fountain pen, a pencil, a roller ball, a ball point, and a felt tip hi-liter. He said that he got them in England. I had only run into the fountain pen and the ball point. I have a couple of each. The scuttle butt is that Parker had problems deep drawing the Titanium and lost money on every piece (1970). They discontinued the production in less than a year. I have blobbing trouble with all the Fisher refills, so I only use them when writing upside down, under water, and over grease.
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Ah that explains it. I didn't realize they had rollerball and ballpoint versions, since the fountain pen is the famous one. I have one of the original Pilot Myu 701's, which is a similar design but made of stainless steel and uses the "pocket pen" concept (long cap and short body, so it's small in your pocket. but when you put the cap on the back of the pen, it feels full sized in your hand). From what I hear, it came out a little after the T-1, but development preceded the T-1's release so it was designed independently. Very sleek and neat design, like the T-1.
 
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