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I have a question about clips.

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Vanagas Pen

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Hey all... I have been making pens for 3 years but nowadays I started to make kitless pens. But I have many questions for that. I am really sorry if I open an opened topic before.

Starting with my first question.

I want to learn how some pens add their clips to a line hole without a ring... I mean most pens have a clip which has a circle near the top, but some of pen turners use that type clip. There is a line hole in the cap (-) like this, and the clip comes from that line. I will add a link to expain better. Is there anyone to explain this work? Thank you...

 
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Paul-H

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On some pens the clip is made attached to a ring that is held in place by the finial, that ring can be seen on some or is hidden by making a reses in the top of the cap with the ring being smaller than the caps diameter. On the pens with no finial the clip design is different and it just goes through a slot cut in the cap and is retained by a screw inside the cap.

Hope this makes sense šŸ˜‰
 
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The slit is cut probably using a vertical mill or some other precise tooling. As Paul says the clip is held in place by a screw inside the cap.

This is an example of how that clip might look. The horizontal bar has a small hole to allow the screw to pass through.

(This isnā€™t my photo, nor my hand for that matter).

Cheers
Ash

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Vanagas Pen

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ValleyBoy said:
The slit is cut probably using a vertical mill or some other precise tooling. As Paul says the clip is held in place by a screw inside the cap.

This is an example of how that clip might look. The horizontal bar has a small hole to allow the screw to pass through.

(This isnā€™t my photo, nor my hand for that matter).

Cheers
Ash

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You are always helpful Ash, thank you. Yes I mean it... I think this may help me Now all I need to open a line hole :)))

I have many many questions about kitless pens but I am asking one by one :)
 
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