I hate to be a secret traitor but for about $7 US you can grab three PALM (there, I said it) styluses to use until you line up a Newton Replacement stylus. They are smaller but fine
otherwise. Me, I bought 4 regular styluses and have been unsable to lose the first one so far. But with no no PDA from Apple in sight I'm planning for the future.
peter
Ed Kummel wrote:
> In a pinch, one day when my tip just *fell* out of the
> pen, I broke a point off of a plastic fork, shaped it
> somewhat with a pen knife and continued to use it for
> several weeks until my replacement pen arrived
> from...well, I can't remember any longer.
> I have since replaced it with a piece of Delrin and
> honestly, I like that pen better...it just won't click
> into the holder any longer...
> Ed
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> --- Mike King <mikkel@market-research.com> wrote:
> > Peter,
> >
> > You may do a roaring trade here, I am sure most
> > Newton owners would buy a
> > pack of 5 spares if the price were reasonable.
> >
> > Anyone care to nominate how much they would be
> > prepared to pay ??
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > At 10:43 PM 23/05/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> > >It was me. I finally took the tip from my stylus
> > (the Nail) out of it
> > >and put it in my jewlers lathe. I found that with
> > newspaper one can
> > >almost burnish the surface of the stylus because of
> > the friction/heat
> > >generated. I am making a project out of this and
> > will post if I go into
> > >the stylus tip replacement business. The Jewler's
> > Lathe makes it easy
> > >and I think I may be able to make replacements for
> > the newton stylus tip.
> > >
> > >-Peter
> > >
> > >On 5/23/00 8:24 PM Don Couch,don@dcphotos.com
> > said... :
> > >
> > >>Someone a while back(before the fire) was asking
> > about how to smooth the
> > >>tip of the stylus. Mine felt like it was "gritty".
> > So, I rubbed it on my
> > >>formica table top and it is as smooth as glass
> > now!!! In fact,
> > >>it has never been this nice! I should point out
> > (no pun intended) that the
> > >>table was a sort of an eggshell textured surface
> > and it was well worn.
> > >>.. worKed for me.
> > >>
> > >>check out www.dcphotos.com
> > >>
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