Grench
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An option I've thought of would be to use a 2 part hollow plastic stylus with a solid metal rod with bulbs on the end and two springs inside the plastic ends. It all snaps together
Plastic point
spring
Rod
spring
plastic butt
When removed from the Pyra it would automatically 'spring' out to length. When reinserted it would collapse down and be held in by the stock retainer clip.
The drawback would be that if tripped, it could leap out of the Pyra a meeter or more in the air.
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My main thought, though, was to get a stock Pyra stylus and go to a machine shop to have it 3D scanned and milled out of solid stainless steel with a hollow threaded point to add tips to - but where to get tips?
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Then I started thinking more - which is usually a bad thing. A resistive stylus is pretty much a rod with a plastic tip. So are mark darts. They make 'supper short' 2ba tips for mark darts - and they're cheap. Like couple pennies each.
http://www.amazon.com/Viper-Tufflex-Super-Points-1000-Count/dp/B003ZZ1E4I
So - if we were to find some very narrow barreled tungsten darts - like these for example:
http://www.stlouisdart.com/catalog/product-model.asp?mcate=SOFTDART&mmanu=LASERDART&mtype=&mmodel=ESE
May need to put some short shafts on them and no flights.
But how about narrow pencil tungsten barreled, short nylon tipped, short shaft mark darts as stylus?
All of these will have to wait until the Pyra ships and we can delve into what the critical dimensions are.
Plastic point
spring
Rod
spring
plastic butt
When removed from the Pyra it would automatically 'spring' out to length. When reinserted it would collapse down and be held in by the stock retainer clip.
The drawback would be that if tripped, it could leap out of the Pyra a meeter or more in the air.
/*************/
My main thought, though, was to get a stock Pyra stylus and go to a machine shop to have it 3D scanned and milled out of solid stainless steel with a hollow threaded point to add tips to - but where to get tips?
/************/
Then I started thinking more - which is usually a bad thing. A resistive stylus is pretty much a rod with a plastic tip. So are mark darts. They make 'supper short' 2ba tips for mark darts - and they're cheap. Like couple pennies each.
http://www.amazon.com/Viper-Tufflex-Super-Points-1000-Count/dp/B003ZZ1E4I
So - if we were to find some very narrow barreled tungsten darts - like these for example:
http://www.stlouisdart.com/catalog/product-model.asp?mcate=SOFTDART&mmanu=LASERDART&mtype=&mmodel=ESE
May need to put some short shafts on them and no flights.
But how about narrow pencil tungsten barreled, short nylon tipped, short shaft mark darts as stylus?
All of these will have to wait until the Pyra ships and we can delve into what the critical dimensions are.