Easiest thing to do is:
Do you build plastic models? Get a piece of the sprue (that's the
round plastic "tree" that holds the parts before you twist 'em off and
glue 'em together), or any other hunk of plastic that's approximately
the same diameter as a pen refill.
Cut it to be the same length as the refill. Sharpen the tip in a
pencil sharpener, and dull down and smooth the tip a little with an
emery board. If your pen refill has a spring on it, put a crink in
the plastic to hold the spring (duplicate what they've done on the
refill) and transfer the spring. Now stick it in your favorite pen,
and you have a custom stylus for very low cost.
I've been planning on getting a Chromatic pen and doing this
(Chromatics are Cross lookalikes, with red and blue refills-- I'll
redo the red refill to be a stylus)
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--srj Nolan's Placebo: An ounce of image is worth a
o_O pound of performance.
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