Closed Pens for 1520 Printer Plotter

[thecellartroll]

Hi folks,

My 1520 arrived today and mechanically it looks OK. Unfortunately the pens are completely missing.

I would be willing to swap a bundle of 5.25" floppies for some non-working pens, or if you have working ones available we could come to a better arrangement.

 

[Muzer]

I am also after pens after buying one of these at a car boot today. It came with pens, but they are completely dried up even after minutes of doing the standard ballpoint pen thing of scribbling for ages . I doubt you'd be able to get dead ones to fill up, though, apparently for biros in general, special equipment is used (and these are biros).


One site has them for sale for $3, but it's one per customer and their minimum sale appears to be $20 ( http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/laser_printers.htm - the internet tells me the Atari 1020 among other things has the same mechanism. See this old thread in another forum for more details: http://www.commodore128.org/index.php?topic=1405.0 )

It's a lovely-looking machine, though! It seems to be actually working, if only the pens did!

 

[thecellartroll]

There is a place in the US selling the pens but they work out (really) expensive and you have to buy quite a few due to their minimum order terms...

Hoping that some people will team up with me to get them

 

[Muzer]

Yeah, I also read there's some German company making them new (or they were, at least) for their medical plotters, but also expensive.

 

[TheCorfiot]

Tandy cgp 115 also uses the same pens too.
As does the Sharp mz too.

The dried ones are impossible to refill, I was lucky to score some on fleabay a few years back for my plotter, I will have a nose around for you.

TC