Even as an adult, I still love doing this.

DrVoltasElectricFish · 1 year

A true redditor can field-strip and re-assemble a ballpoint pen in less than 10 seconds

HESSlAN · 1 year

Dismantle and rebuild a pen, feel like an engineer!

oryano · 1 year

build pen which is designed to also be a puzzle....make a million dollars.

cubanhawkeye · 1 year

you can still take it apart more.

BlueVixen · 1 year

DON'T LOSE THE SPRING!

littlefield20 · 1 year

You're almost out of ink bro. Sorry I called you an asshole last night. I was grumpy from sleep deprivation

a00747694 · 1 year

This is what I saw when I did that: http://www.gunlistings.org/uploads/23269_20100609233053_1.jpg

meikamo · 1 year

Dude, you forgot to shoot the grip across the classroom and get sent to the principal's office.

Tuscany007 · 1 year

as a kid i would imagine i was diffusing a bomb... that if the cartridge touched the casing... BOOM!

r0sco · 1 year

Cleverly disguised DAE.

[deleted] · 1 year

I still enjoy weaponizing mechanical bic pens and pencils.

FoozMuz · 1 year

This is my pen. There are many like it but this one is mine. My pen is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my pen is useless. Without my pen I am useless.

teganyavo · 1 year

in middle school i used to pass notes to friends in school by pretending to need to share a pen with them, and then storing notes inside

evanod · 1 year

I am currently in a meeting, browsing reddit, with a disassembled pen sitting in front of me. This made my day.

reiphil · 1 year

clip... is... backwards.... ocd tick

fade1r · 1 year

This is my pen. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My pen is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My pen, without me, is useless. Without my pen, I am useless. I must write with my pen true. I must write straighter than my enemy who is trying to grade me. I must write seamlessly before they grade me. I will... My pen and myself know that what counts in this war is not the essays we wirte, the noise of our writing, nor the mistakes we make. We know that it is the grade that counts. We will score high... My pen is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its spring and its ink. I will ever guard it against the ravages of weather and damage as I will ever guard my legs, my arms, my eyes and my heart against damage. I will keep my pem clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will... Before God, I swear this creed. My pen and myself are the defenders of my grade. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life. So be it, until victory is America's and there is no enemy, but peace!

Timmyc62 · 1 year

Favourite thing to do: get a rubber band and shoot the core through the casing across the room to make 0.7mm dents in the drywall. And possibly shoot someone's eye out.

Eaglerufio · 1 year

Dude if you put the spring in the front of the pen you can use that to launch the ink cartridge like a missile.

pros599 · 1 year

I once found a pen that had 13 pieces. It was like I was in heaven.

brazijl · 1 year

kept me going through several hours in school

Meoow · 1 year

how i feel when I reassemble it.

mcstafford · 1 year

Growing older, mandatory; growing up, happily optional.

gunny16 · 1 year

Back 15-20 years ago, I grew up with these pens that has a button to release it (Instead of pressing the top of the pen twice to push out the head of the pen and then release it, we had the top button to press the pen's head out and the side will have a button to press and it will release the pen). We released the pen's head and the top button would be used the pen to hit some small toys/action figures to move it. The whole goal was to use your character to push the other character out of the table.

To make sure we have the best advantage, we would expand the spring thinking that it will give us extra boost to push our character harder and further than the stock pens. I don't know whether it gave us any extra power or not, but I can tell you that I ruined more pens than I can say I won at those games.

I feel old.

3oclockinthemorning · 1 year

Can you do it blindfolded?

SomeSarcasticBastard · 1 year

You forgot to take off the rubber grip and get it stuck around the end of your finger.

Menoku · 1 year

This is my pen. There are many others like it, but this one is mine. My pen is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my pen is useless. Without my pen, I am useless.

LordLandon · 1 year

I usually stand up all the individual pieces. Sorted by hight, naturally.

TheSpeedy · 1 year

As a mechanical engineer, I do this with EVERYTHING.

PabloEdvardo · 1 year

When I was three years old I disassembled my grandmother's vacuum cleaner. She called my parents in a panic.

An hour later she called my parents back, "Don't worry he fixed it!"

From then on, nothing was safe from me. I disassembled pretty much everything I could get my hands on, and then learned how to put it back together and make it work again. Only thing I never could get back together was an old alarm clock, too many springs!

Now I fix computers for a living - and the marketing pens we get (microsoft office, ASUS, etc) - first thing I do is take them apart :)

Daritlan · 1 year

I still Mark off the level of ink in all gel pens i have and date them.

thelordkoala · 1 year

You forgot to remove the grip!

Tyrphanax · 1 year

Forgot to take off the rubber finger grip, man! Amateur! =P

MoonDaddy · 1 year

Thumbnail made it look like an aerial bombing campaign circa WWII. You sick bastard.

binderpaper · 1 year

Did you turn it into a cannon???

Mortegro545 · 1 year

Dreams of making a blow-gun...

... just end up putting the pen back together again.

cm1993 · 1 year

i always pretended i was assembling a sniper.....

JerkOfficer · 1 year

This is my rifle this is my gun!

[deleted] · 1 year

THIS IS MY PEN. THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT, BUT THIS ONE IS MINE.

znightmaree · 1 year

If you have a big enough pen, you can hide joints inside of the tube part. You're welcome.

manipause · 1 year

I stand them up and order them by height.

DownstairsB · 1 year

Has anyone else wanted to carry a pen around disassembled and then when someone asks for a pen you pat your pockets and say "hmm yeah I think I can do a pen." then pull out each piece and assemble it into a pen while they stare at you in bewilderment

[deleted] · 1 year

I only use roller ball pens but I do recall taking ballpoint pens apart and losing the springs.

levilarrington · 1 year

I was expecting a pile of cocaine.

Pravusmentis · 1 year

Why did you take that pen apart so quickly?

Because you told me to

Squishyy · 1 year

I used to love doing it until I kept losing the springs, shit just hits the floor and vanishes!

faggotoni · 1 year

You like doing meth?

RalfNader · 1 year

You didn't take apart the clicking mechanism in the back. I am disappointed.

minno · 1 year

You mean we're not supposed to do that?

bananasjunk · 1 year

AAAAAAWWWWW YEAH

This feels so awesome for some reason. No one I know gets the point of this either, but this is so relaxing and gets me a great feeling!

tubbynerd · 1 year

Fucking nerd

orko1995 · 1 year

I thought I'm the only one...

initialcondition · 1 year

Procrastinate? Ya, me too.

keeekeeess · 1 year

I imagine it's some kind of nuclear bomb that I'm assembling to destroy the bad guy's secret base.

Firefly_Eyes0309 · 1 year

I always thought my b/f did this just to annoy the hell out of me!!

vintage75 · 1 year

YES! 35 years and I still do that. I disassemble then reassemble my pen when meeting with our engineering staff, then look at them like, "See, me am good at engineering too!!!"

kalvfile · 1 year

It's one of the pure enjoyments of the adult life, cause no parents are yelling at you for dismantling pens and then losing a piece or two.

shawndw · 1 year

9 years old: rebuilding a pen 19 years old: rebuilding an M16

michael9319 · 1 year

Feeling like an assassin never gets old.

[deleted] · 1 year

This reminds me of cleaning a gun.

davek0 · 1 year

Crap... I'm not going to grow out of this?

DoctorThunder · 1 year

I sell and clean pens for a living, so if anything I was just going through training. It also helped me understand how the fuck a fountain pen works.

nfs3freak · 1 year

You mean, turn the ink pen backwards on the inside, slightly put the lid back on with one twist, and then fire the cap like a projectile?

zubenelgenubi · 1 year

If that's regular ball pen ink - make a stink bomb. A few adjustments and a strike anywhere wooden match.

scy1192 · 1 year

Take the spring out of one and double the springs on the other. WHY DIDN'T THE MAN AT THE PEN FACTORY THINK OF THIS?

Puggleky · 1 year

Reminds me of a scene in Vengeance starring Johnny Halladay - the French Elvis. (that last part is obligatory for me).

elfman252 · 1 year

But how fast can you do it?

SpiffyBeej · 1 year

Oh man... I remember distracting myself with this all the time in elementary school

[deleted] · 1 year

Ah ha!! Now try to put it back together!

misfitx · 1 year

Totally. My favorite fountain pen has six pieces, I believe.

[deleted] · 1 year

I used to do this all the time back in high school and people would look at me and face-palm.

ZombieSociety · 1 year

I love doing that, too. Because then it becomes a pipe.

brews · 1 year

This is my pen... there are many like it, but this one is mine...

Edit- damn! someone beat me to it.

wallsbecametheworld · 1 year

"adult"

psych13 · 1 year

i don't know why but this reminded me of Dexter

lllkill · 1 year

Lost so many pen springs doing this. Because eventually I'm shooting different parts of my pen everywhere.

Insomnya3AM · 1 year

This is my pen. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

My pen is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.

My pen, without me, is useless. Without my pen, I am useless. I must write with my pen true. I must write straighter than my enemy who is trying to out-write me. I must out-write him before he out-writes me. I will...

taranig · 1 year

if you like taking things apart... and then putting them back together again...

klove614 · 1 year

PEN, HOW U WORK?!

arronlorenz · 1 year

Those pens in Junior Achievement taught me that being the foreman is a hell of a lot better than assembly line worker.

daniel7860 · 1 year

That's one of the very few things you can do in super boring classes.

iamnotmybuddypaul · 1 year

Not sure how adult I am, but good. I was a bit worried.

jackhustle · 1 year

The thumbnail looked a lot like a Gantt chart to me. In this case, the pen lid is where the panic/magic happens.

sellby · 1 year

You can make a gun very easily with those pens. take the clicky part out of the pen and flip the first thing around and put the spring on the the little wiener. Push it all back in (not the ink thing nor the front part) and there should be a little groove or something that the wiener gets caught on. Just click it and it fires.

Used to make those all the time in 6th grade. Even got suspended for "shooting" a sub. I didn't do anything. They set me up!

BobJ143 · 1 year

I used to imagine myself as a specialized pen maker.

gfunk420 · 1 year

What, no comments on chewing on each part?

Spappy · 1 year

But how fast can you put it back together?

shannonmiller · 1 year

When I was interviewing for an internship at a university, the professor asked me if I had ever taken something apart only to put it back together. I said "Yes, I love doing that with pens!" He looked at me quizzically and said "Actually, I meant electronics or something..."

AUTOBRO · 1 year

My co-worker got angry at me for lending me a pen, because I used it and proceeded to dismantle and switch parts of it with other pens. He refused to lend me pens after that.

SidViciious · 1 year

I did this subconciously in the middle of an interview. About five minutes later he asked me to write something down. The pause whilst I put the pen back together was awkward to say the least

CodisMaximus · 1 year

You could take the "clicker" assembly apart as well.

SinisterCanuck · 1 year

I always used to build stink bombs from pens with springs.

Take apart a pen; Put a strike anywhere match in the end; Reverse the ink cartridge so the metal part is facing the matchhead; Pull back on the end of the ink cartridge; The cartridge releases and strikes the matchhead; Once it starts to smoke, throw it in a neighbouring garbage can; Run

The thing will stink like no one's business.

trixter192 · 1 year

And I still don't know how the clicker part works.

1 year

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VoiceOfGosh · 1 year

Penman's Creed:

THIS IS MY PEN!!! THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT, BUT THIS ONE IS MINE!!!

MY PEN IS MY BEST FRIEND!!! IT IS MY LIFE!!! I MUST MASTER IT AS I MUST MASTER MY LIFE!!!

MY PEN, WITHOUT ME, IS USELESS!!! WITHOUT MY PEN, I AM USELESS!!! I MUST WRITE WITH MY PEN TRUE!!! I MUST WRITE STRAIGHTER THAN MY ENEMY WHO IS TRYING TO OUTWIT ME!!! I MUST WRITE BEFORE HE WRITES!!! I WILL...

MY PEN AND MYSELF KNOW THAT WHAT COUNTS IN THIS ESSAY IS NOT THE WORD COUNT, THE NOISE OF OUR SCRIBBLING, NOR THE ERASURES WE MAKE!!! WE KNOW THAT IT IS THE CORRECT FORMAT THAT COUNTS!!! WE WILL WRITE...

MY PEN IS HUMAN, EVEN AS I, BECAUSE IT IS MY LIFE!!! THUS, I WILL LEARN IT AS A BROTHER!!! I WILL LEARN ITS WEAKNESSES, ITS STRENGTHS, ITS PARTS, ITS ACCESSORIES, ITS GRADE AND ITS SIZE!!! I WILL EVER GUARD IT AGAINST THE RAVAGES OF WEATHER AND DAMAGE AS I WILL EVER GUARD MY LEGS, MY ARMS, MY EYES AND MY HEART AGAINST DAMAGE!!! I WILL KEEP MY PEN CLEAN AND READY!!! WE WILL BECOME PART OF EACH OTHER!!! WE WILL...

BEFORE BIC, I SWEAR THIS CREED!!! MY PEN AND MYSELF ARE THE DEFENDERS OF MY COUNTRY!!! WE ARE THE MASTERS OF OUR ENEMY!!! WE ARE THE SAVIORS OF MY LIFE!!!

SO BE IT, UNTIL VICTORY IS AMERICA'S AND THERE IS NO ENEMY, BUT PEACE!!!

mwmade · 1 year

THIS IS SO INTERESTING IM GLAD ITS ON THE FRONTPAGE

[deleted] · 1 year

bitch i can field strip and reassemble a g2 pen in less than 10 seconds!

residential was boring :/

ialsolovebees · 1 year

This is my pen. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

My pen is my best friend. It is my job. I must master it as I must master my job.

My pen, without me, is useless. Without my pen, I am useless. I must use my pen true. I must write straighter than my coworker who is trying to out-do me. I must out-do him before he gets me fired.

bjoernlars · 1 year

First glimpse of the thumbnail and I thought I was looking at a naval armada about to land on the beaches of Normandy...

adeadparrot · 1 year

But I would always lose the spring bit. Always.

elliottsaysjump · 1 year

Y U NO STRIP IT FURTHER?!

amishius · 1 year

Same. Had to not do it today while teaching...

bradosborn · 1 year

i hate when i disassemble and reassemble a clicker pen but the point of the pen sticks out permanently. >:(

bloodguard · 1 year

I used to pretend I was putting together a trigger to a bomb that would blow up the whole world.

I had issues.

supernopantsman · 1 year

You're not an adult!

thecaits · 1 year

I used to disassemble and reassemble them like I was a soldier and the pen was my rifle. I was a very odd child.

toastedtobacco · 1 year

How many of us grew up into gunnitors?

Lonestar93 · 1 year

Fucking pens, how do they wor- oh.

hoddap · 1 year

I seriously (!) had the ambition as a kid to do this for a living, because I loved doing it so much (and still do btw). Ended up with one of those computerjobs. Oh dreams, how you mock me.

Monotone_Robot · 1 year

I use a Zebra M-301 0.5mm mechanical pencil. I have used one since middle school. Like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Mechanical-Pencil-Stainless-Barrel-ZEB54010/dp/accessories/B001E642C6

I am now about three times as old now as I was then. I don't know how many times I've stripped it down and reassembled it. Once I had to field-strip this model in the midst of a final fucking exam in college because the lead wouldn't feed. I didn't have my spare.

edit: On another occasion I had someone question me about it as I was doing it. I pulled out the, "This is my pencil. There are many like it, but this one is mine" line. Felt good.

Toribor · 1 year

It makes me feel like I'm dismantling, and cleaning a gun. While playing with the pen mumble "Seven-six-two millimeter. Full metal jacket..." and stare hatefully at anyone who enters the room.

Nienordir · 1 year

Every time I found a pen at home, I'd dismantle it only to have my mother bitch at me "put it down! You're going to break it..you always do!". I still don't know if I ever broke one as kid or if she was trolling..weird mother elephant memory..

raydio27 · 1 year

I had a school supply obsession when I was younger, and I always disassembled the pens I had. I would Frankenstein them, or fuck them up in an attempt at pen surgery after one wouldn't work... usually this result in a broken piece (or more frustrating, one flung halfway across the room) and so my pen/pencil bag would be filled with remnants and shrapnel of all the poor pens whose lives were taken by my unhealthy desire to take apart everything .

yenomz · 1 year

I looked at the thumbnail and saw a stone skipping over water.. I said in my head yea I like to do that to... come back later click it anyway see pens... Kinda wish it was a stone

09djohn · 1 year

I used to do this all the time in High school! I would take the pen apart and then time myself on the clock to see how fast I could put it back together. Record: 8 seconds

Brooklynxman · 1 year

The sign of a professional writer: He can break down and reassemble a Bic in under 60 seconds, blindfolded.

CaptainRahab · 1 year

Hey I do this too! Here is my mechanical pencil all disassembled - it's a Pentel Graphgear 1000 and I love it. http://i.imgur.com/oag26.jpg

The_Pourne_Ultimatum · 1 year

it feels like youre field stripping your service weapon, no?

ChemicalRain · 1 year

You still love doing that? Thumbnail looks like heroin needles.

[deleted] · 1 year

Does anyone know of a pen with mechanisms so complex that putting it together could be considered a puzzle?

darkesth0ur · 1 year

Seriously, this gets front page?

onimus · 1 year

I too, enjoy taking photos

Rock_or_Something · 1 year

Gotta time those field strips. I can't believe I used to do it while in class in high school.

dszordan · 1 year

This always reminds me of the Piggies' vivisection in Speaker for the Dead.

blueranger · 1 year

As an adult, I look at this and think, "further disassembly required."

[deleted] · 1 year

When I got older, I discovered you could write with them too.

waxinggibbous298 · 1 year

I think it's just to make sure you're mechanically inclined.

Ok, good.

Now get onto something more complex! Get a screwdriver or something!

fkznsfkzns · 1 year

set as my wallpaper

maximusjesse · 1 year

The best thing to do with this is to use the top three parts to launch projectile ink canisters across the classroom.

SagebrushFire · 1 year

In junior high I used to take these apart, spit down the cylinder and then "jerk" it off in front of people. I was popular with that gag for about two days.

needuhLee · 1 year

What else are you supposed to do at work?

[deleted] · 1 year

That totally needs to be an isometric drawing for a poster/shirt.

herpslurp · 1 year

Me gusta

madmanmunt · 1 year

I disassemble every pen I use. It's a form of hazing. To let them know who's boss.

cody_au · 1 year

Don't do it on a plane, unless you live in Canada.

2uinton · 1 year

There was one brand of clicky pens that you could actually re-engineer to fire (I believe) the ink back out .... take the spring, put it back towards the clicker and you could load the ink in and have it stay in there ready to fire until you clicked it.

InfernoKong · 1 year

Now all you have to do is disassemble 2 pens and put both springs on one of them.

Extra springy-ness!

[deleted] · 1 year

Relevant badass army ad from the Super Bowl

CrankTheSirens · 1 year

I used to use mine as a spitball shooter.

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