What kind of pen do you use?

DonutHole · Post by **DonutHole** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 1:15 pm

The title might infer cheekiness... lol. Not my intention.

What kind of pen do you use?

I rock a fisher in the field and a Kaweco in the book.

ahramin · Post by **ahramin** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 1:18 pm

Zebra 2F

Troubleshot · Post by **Troubleshot** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 1:35 pm

I know a guy that used to sign out engine changes with a huge novelty pen....it was hilarious.

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DonutHole · Post by **DonutHole** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 1:40 pm

Not my image

I got a pair of these huge snap on "nipple clamps" with the simple purchase of a 700 dollar matching green set of regular pliers.

When I got to management I figured I'd make the new guys help me pee with these things (as a display of dominance... get your mind out of the gutter) but looking at the talent pool, if I ever get there, I'll stick to using them myself.

Zebra makes nice pens. I always like to have an expensive or unique, or expensive and unique pen so people don't jack them.

ahramin · Post by **ahramin** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 1:51 pm

I flew with one guy who explained that he got a gross of Parker pens at some point but having lost the rest he's down to his last one so he keeps a really sharp eye on it as he doesn't want to lose it.

I stole it about 3 minutes later. It's really nice.

DonutHole · Post by **DonutHole** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 1:53 pm

ahramin wrote:I flew with one guy who explained that he got a gross of Parker pens at some point but having lost the rest he's down to his last one so he keeps a really sharp eye on it as he doesn't want to lose it.

I stole it about 3 minutes later. It's really nice.

You devious bastard...

I love it

looproll · Post by **looproll** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:28 pm

Jetstream pens from Staples!!! HELL YEAH! Made by uniball. Get black 1.0mm. They are seriously the best bang for the buck.

AirFrame · Post by **AirFrame** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:58 pm

Fisher Space Pen.

iflyforpie · Post by **iflyforpie** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:59 pm

Uni 0.5mm. The only time smaller balls are better.... 1.0mm might as well be a Jiffy Marker in comparison...

Dibbley · Post by **Dibbley** » Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:38 am

I make a point of stealing whatever pen I find laying on the radio panel during my visits to the cockpit - usually a papermate. I won't touch anything fancy. I hand them out to whatever mechanic might need them that day - someone is always needing one. Pilot`s have pocketed many an Engineer`s screwdriver over the years, so I figure this is just being fair.

LousyFisherman · Post by **LousyFisherman** » Wed Oct 01, 2014 8:51 am

Red

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Chris M · Post by **Chris M** » Wed Oct 01, 2014 9:56 am

Pilot Precise Grip, fine point.

CID · Post by **CID** » Wed Oct 01, 2014 9:57 am

Whatever the hotel leaves in the room next to the little pad.

DonutHole · Post by **DonutHole** » Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:51 pm

lol. Ive literally bought my freedom with a good pen.

at any rate, maybe a bit of a drift.

We all have quirks, those things we need to be just so. As mechanics, I suspect many of our toolboxes are 'just so'

What other things do you need 'just so'in your life? My toolbox has to be perfect and my pen has to be adequate...

what guilty pleasures, nice things, rituals, get you through your day happy?

iflyforpie · Post by **iflyforpie** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 8:43 am

Coffee... and lots of it.

Related to the pen is fanatically neat tech logs. My journey log entries look like something a toddler would have scrawled... and my personal log is better but not by much. But my tech logs make the Magna Carta look like it was haphazardly written... thanks in part to a 0.5mm pen and a lot of free time to hand write all of the entries....

rubberboot · Post by **rubberboot** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 2:09 pm

Troubleshot wrote:I know a guy that used to sign out engine changes with a huge novelty pen....it was hilarious.

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...somebody is over compensating.

LousyFisherman · Post by **LousyFisherman** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 8:47 am

iflyforpie wrote:and a lot of free time to hand write all of the entries....

You work for free now Pie? I thought that was disapproved of?

LF

iflyforpie · Post by **iflyforpie** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 12:41 pm

Lots of paid time where I am free to spend extra time doing things.

NeverBlue · Post by **NeverBlue** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 3:46 pm

Lots of paid time where I am free to spend extra time doing things.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

MCB · Post by **MCB** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 11:07 pm

iflyforpie wrote:Lots of paid time where I am free to spend extra time doing things.

http://www.penisland.net/

niss · Post by **niss** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 4:56 am

iflyforpie wrote:My journey log entries look like something a toddler would have scrawled...

All my logs look like they were filled by a toddler, who was drunk, while riding a hard tail motorcycle over the worst kept road in siberia, while being mauled by a wolf, and hopped up on chocolate covered coffee beans, red bull, and crystal meth.

iflyforpie · Post by **iflyforpie** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 7:45 am

MCB wrote:
iflyforpie wrote:Lots of paid time where I am free to spend extra time doing things.
http://www.penisland.net/

That is a very unfortunate choice for a web domain....

Meecka · Post by **Meecka** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:44 am

niss wrote:
iflyforpie wrote:My journey log entries look like something a toddler would have scrawled...
All my logs look like they were filled by a toddler, who was drunk, while riding a hard tail motorcycle over the worst kept road in siberia, while being mauled by a wolf, and hopped up on chocolate covered coffee beans, red bull, and crystal meth.

That Sir, just made my day! I now have co-workers wondering if I just had a seizure.

niss · Post by **niss** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 10:12 am

GyvAir · Post by **GyvAir** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 11:34 am

niss wrote:
iflyforpie wrote:My journey log entries look like something a toddler would have scrawled...
All my logs look like they were filled by a toddler, who was drunk, while riding a hard tail motorcycle over the worst kept road in siberia, while being mauled by a wolf, and hopped up on chocolate covered coffee beans, red bull, and crystal meth.

Probably should cut back on the chocolate..

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