I started using a SpacePen when I was in the Arctic and had to write out log entries... Worked 100% of the time! Later when flying light aircraft that are unpressurized I used them to avoid the exploding pen issue that is common for pilots. Yes, a pencil would work, but in my experience the SpacePen is worth the $$$.
@@StrawberryKitten Your assumption is incorrect. I have done 5 deployments north of the Arctic circle. 4 of the 5 were in the winter... The Antarctic though I have not yet been.
The reason why the space pen works so well, is because the inkt cartridge is pressurized. And upside down is usually when the pen stops working after its like half empty. And if you bought the full metallic version of the space pen, it would have endured just fine in the oven.
Supposedly NASA commissioned the development of a pen that would work in zero-G by pressurizing the cartridge as you said. I used to have one. If pressure was insufficient you could open it up and pump it a couple of times which was enough to last for weeks - didn't need much. Anyway, NASA supposedly gave $3 million to Papermate for its development ($3 milion was a lot of money back then). The Russians simply gave their cosmonauts pencils. Who was smarter?
I used one in the army, and it worked well. Also had the waterproof pads to write on. Took notes on briefing in the rain, wrote medical info when needed, and overall didn't have a problem with it.
It's meant to be durable enough that it will never explode in your pocket due to heat, that is the point of the 250 degree resistance. Basically it's so you have a pen that you can trust will work every time you need it in any condition that hasn't killed you yet. We have the same thing sold on military bases under a different brand name and I still use them exclusively after being out for 13 years because I know it won't break on me.
I got the space pen as well, i think for 3 years now, still works like a charm. It was designed to go into space, and it has, they advertise it can work up to +250ºF
Imagine you are participating in teambuilding, and you have a sauna session. The Finnish saunas are typically 80 - 110 C (176 - 230 F). With the space pen you can write even when in the sauna. That could just save your day.
That's basically how whiteboard pens stop working. You hold em with the tip higher than the body and the ink runs down, away from the tip. And then it stops writing.
yeah, i feel like the upside down thing is probably a good test for the 0 gravity claim, as that's the closest you'd get to testing 0 gravity without being in one of those 0 gravity tunnels. but a pen that can write up against something, like a wall, is super convenient. most pens can get like half a word out before they start failing
Love your show. I worked in the food industry for years and had to inspect sub zero freezers and if you want to use a pen in those it had to be a space pen. Other pens would explode when frozen. Most people just use pencils in those freezers, but love me some space pens. Just my 2 cents
Oh ya, that's it, use a pencil, that way boss man can cry about the bits of pencil crap laying around from those too lazy to find a waste bin to sharpen their utensil.
I have used Space Pens since the eighties; no troubles, no failures, no nonsense. I just bought Stars & Stripes pens for gifts last year. I can say, incredibly, that over the years I am looking at a 100% no-fault track record.
@@l0sts0ul89 well, I remember getting my first one (a silver bullet pen) in Dec 1981 when my first daughter was born, and I had it until I lost it three years later. I bought one refill for it in three years, writing short notes. I used it fairly often. I had a "compact system" where I folded one sheet of letter-sized paper to give me 16 little pages of notes, and just stuck it in my pants pocket. I kind of ran a business with that little pen, lol. Gotta say, one really gets attached to these little things once you start using them.
I used to be a Pipefitter for Austal, a ship building company, it was not uncommon that we’d have to contort our bodies upside down when making measurements in places where it was Atleast 150 degrees, and I’ve had a lot of pens go out on me, I bet this space pen would’ve been a godsend.
My favorite pen is the Energel Gel pen. Black specifically. It lasted me a long while (5 months of daily writing) and was the best writing and smoothest pen I’ve ever had
When they said it writes through grease they didn’t mean like raw grease smeared on a paper. They meant for like mechanics dealing with greasy dirty stuff and getting old grease smeared on a paper and wiped off. I carry space pens in my note pad and use them constantly. They are great.
Yeah, also useful when working with things like vegetable oil. Our surveyor uses one when taking measurements in the tanks as it's hard not to get oil on the paper when switching between using the dip tape and writing down the figures.
Can confirm. Food restaurant here and gel pens can have a short lifespan when they meet greasy paper. Space pen works in the freezer with no fade, and writes for a long time. Grease gets in everything in restaurant and yes ball points work fine most of the time. But ball points are prone to spontaneously not working anymore. Or one drop and they break. Lol.
"If you get one drop of grease on your hands, you'll find it on your elbow, in your armpit [...]" I'm pretty sure that's a you problem. I personally have never had that issue.
I used to do 70+ oil changes a day by myself in the pit, greasing and checking the diff fluid levels where my favorite. I can conclude that once you touch grease it gets everywhere is TRUE. I’ll grease truck, clean everything off with rags, and end up with grease on my face, and behind my ears.
I used some silicone based grease on poly bushings to prevent squeaking... Holy s#!t. It's like grease on crack, I did literally find bits of it months later and that was already knowing it's reputation and taking extreme amounts of care...
@@Mr3Trois3 been longer than a year. It was at least two years ago but I feel like it was three years. It was definitely not last year. Last year he did something else.
Honestly, I'm surprised! Considering Tyler made an April Fool's day video about the "Love Hammer" last year, I was expecting a April Fool's day video this year too. Regardless it still was a good video!
Some context on the freeze test. My dad was a police officer in the late 70's and early 80's in Iowa and always worked the graveyard shift. This means that during winter it is always the coldest time. He used these pens since writing with a Bic when it is -20 F outside sucked. The pens would stop working or not write well enough. What ended up happening is those pens would sit on the dash right on the heat vent for the front windshield. This allowed them to thaw out to be used until they had to be cycled out. A better test is a walk in freezer set to below zero with two layers of normal paper and a carbon paper liner.
The whole reason the space pen works so well is unlike all other pens the ink cartridges are fully sealed and pressurized. So gravity, heat, cold, grease etc have a harder time affecting it. It was after all, designed to write in space haha
@@dgdixon704NASA spent nothing developing the Space Pen. It was a private venture. The Fisher Space Pen Company sold Space Pens to NASA. As for the Soviets, they bought Space Pens too!
Working inside a gun system on a ship in the military writing down electronic test point numbers for trouble shooting on your back … that’s why I always had a space pen
i googled freezing point of ink in ink pens out of curiosity and this is what i got: Many types of pen ink will freeze at temperatures below 32°F (0°C), which is the freezing point of water. However, some inks, particularly those used in fountain pens, may have a lower freezing point, and may freeze at temperatures as high as 20°F (-6°C) or even lower
I always had a full stainless parker jotter I used in high school, really liked the quality and sleek design, yet I could still get them at Walmart. For a long time they were made in the USA, they got sold to a French company and around 2006ish they started making them in France, I haven't used one in a decade though so they might even be made in China now lol.
The writing upside down is a good indicator of being able to write in zero-g. Because if it can write against gravity it can definitely write in zero-g
The secret, or at least one of them, is that the refill in the pen is pressurized. That accounts at least for the upside down writing and the zero gravity writing. Of course, the last one is why the space pen was really developed; ballpoints don't work well without gravity. You can buy the space pen refiills to fit many pen bodies, by the way.
The space pen, bullet pen, uses the same cartridge but doesn’t have the plastic spacer piece. I bet it would have done very well as a whole for the oven test.
Way to repeat what everybody's already said long before you did. Is it like a dog and the fact that it only counts if you're the last one that pees on the fire hydrant? You lost
@@donschlonski2936 I guess you don't believe, with old Ben Jonson, that it is insufficiently considered that men need more often to be reminded than informed.
I feel like Tyler should do ASMR writing with various types of pens. I think I could listen to the sound of him writing with pens until it put me to sleep lol
@@RamoArt In defense of Space Pen, they make 100% of all their pens (including the refill cartridge) right here in the United States using fair labor. (In fact, Space Pen is the *only* pen manufacturer still left here in the United States.) Meanwhile, Tombow pens are made in China/Vietnam using slave labor. While Tombow may fit your budget, Space Pen fits my conscience in regards to buying products that are not made using slave labor.
I've been carrying space pens in my pockets for decades. They're sealed, so they can't leak. I use them regularly for filling out forms on clipboards hanging on walls at work. Regular gravity-driven pens stop writing before I've filled out the log form.
When these pens first came out I had an uncle. He was so sure he was going to become a millionaire selling the pens. He mortgaged his paid-off house and bought more than 30,000 pens. He went around trying to resell them I don't even think sold more than 1,500 of them ended up going bankrupt in fact.
I'm a retired engineer, and I used to have to write upside down all the time. It was very common that I'd have to lie on a dolly, on my back, slide under one of our machines, and take measurements. I'd usually have a common yellow pad of paper, and my trusty Fisher AG-7 Space Pen (the O.G. "space pen" carried by all astronauts since the Apollo program). Now anyone who's had to lie on a dolly will tell you what a pain in the neck it is to roll over onto your belly so that you don't have to write upside down, which is why I bought a "space pen" in the first place. (It also works really well with a pad of paper pressed against a wall, another situation where most pens fail). At work I never had to write under water, but I often had to write on things soaked with a fine spray of water droplets due to the humidity of the air condensing into water inside pressurized air lines, and not having a particularly effective means of removing the water from the pressurized air in our cheap a$$ed compressor direct to airline system. So after blowing metal chips off something with an air hose, I often had to write on something covered in a fine spray of tiny water droplets. What a space pen will NOT DO is write under about 10 feet or more of water. The ink cartridges of the Space Pen are only pressurized to around 35psig so once the additional water pressure starts to get anywhere near about half that pressure it starts to skip and quickly stops working. So the Space Pen is NOT a good diver's pen. Lastly DON'T buy a cheap knock-off copy of the Space Pen. I've never found one that works. Buy your Space Pen from Fisher Pens, they work. And although the AG-7 is the pen NASA buys, there's also the Fisher "Space Pen Bullet" which is an arguably better looking pen with an arguably better balance. The only problem with the Space Pen Bullet is that it doesn't have a pocket clip so that it will roll right off anything other than a perfectly flat surface. But the Bullet is imo a more comfortable pen to write with if you're going to be writing for several hours at a time, but what constitutes "comfortable", or not, varies greatly form person to person, so your millage may vary. So I'd say that the Space Pen Bullet is more of a writer's pen, where the Space Pen AG-7 is more of a practical day to day sort of pen. I own both.
My old roommate used to collect fountain pens so I figured it would be the most likely to run. But I’ve never seen anybody write on waterproof paper that’s pretty cool
The reason the fountain pen washed right off the write in the rain paper is because that paper is coated in wax. Gel type pens don't work at all on it, under water or not. The ink just sits in the surface and wipes away. They're meant for ball point pens or pencils.
If I ever find myself in a scenario where everything around and including me is at 250 degrees hot….I doubt writing with a pen is the first thing I’ll be trying to do hahaha
I really wanted to like the Space Pen. I have had one for years and it can not write a solid line. I really like the Office Depot TŪL gel pen. It never skips. Gel is also recommended for checks since it soaks into the paper.
I have a metallic gold space pen I bought at the crater museum, I forget the name of the place. Its possible that it's a Fisher brand space pen but I'm not sure. It worked well for me and was nice to use. I haven't used it much and not at all in the last 10 years or so but I still have it... somewhere lol
I have several Space Pens (bullet style), love them. I use mine for recording business mileage in my car. It's the best pen for cold weather and I don't worry about it exploding in my car.
Pen comes directly from oven, without hesitation, Tyler grabs it and burns himself. Say wow yeah that's hot. I died of laughter because we all do that even though we all know darn well anything coming out of a hot over is going to be hot. 😂
Bought a couple of these when they were first introduced in the 1970’s. I was pretty impressed with it! Of course I was a kid obsessed with anything space-related at the time-- Post-Apollo 11 and PRE-Star Wars…that period of “discovery and experimentation after the first manned landing on the moon and the dream that became Star Wars!--also the Space Pen’s package art really appealed to me at the time.
NASA never invested in the Pen. Paul Fisher invested 2.5 Billion dollars of his own money into making this pen. He sold space pens to NASA. He also gifted 500 space pen to the Russian Cosmonauts. I've been using the space pen since I was 5.
Worked on a flight deck and used the space pen all the time up there due to the greasy dirty environment. It worked wonders on grease soaked papers for me.
I love the space pen. I use the bullet pen which uses the same cartridge minus the plastic piece that melted in the one you tested. I use my pen daily and have been since 2015. My style is the raw brass bullet pen.
@@TheSnatchbuckler I ordered mine. Even had my name engraved. It doesn’t show super obviously after it’s been in your pocket a while. I have a matte black clip added to the raw brass pen. The raw brass reacts to your body chemistry (i.e. sweat, hand grease/oils, etc..) and gives it a unique visual appearance. I like it.
@@jerodslaton2282 I imagine it is pretty nice. I really like the stainless, but love the patina that comes with brass. Probably gonna have to be a belated groundhog day gift to myself.
Still got my space pens from the 90s they have a brass body and a lid ,when not in use the capsule is not much longer than the refill. When the lights is put on the other end it's normal pen length. The brass thread to get to refill can sieze and can get corroded. The lid is secured on with an o ring. If I remember correctly a much cheaper Parker refill will fit if you remove the plastic cam. My dad had the posher clicky retractable one with a button on the side, the mechanism jammed. Mine also had trouble with oily paper. I have the all chrome one, the black and chrome one. And I might still have but I've not seen it in a while gold and black one ,my first one might have been stolen in 1991-2. Fountain pen explosion was a surprise, would have expected it to leak .
As an Injection Molding Process Technician who has to fill out tons of paperwork (such as process windows and startup/EOJ paperwork), it's a near daily occurrence for the paperwork to be contaminated with grease or hydraulic fluid. When it comes to writing on contaminated paper (but especially when it's oil that has soaked INTO the paper such as WD-40 or hydraulic fluid), I've found that Space Pens write best in these conditions. Too many times, regular ball point pens stop writing when they get to oil soaked into the paper. And even worse, the ink of standard pens tends to break down if you spill oil (or other solvents) on the paper. I've found space pen ink to be quite chemical resistant. And the final icing on the cake when it comes to space pens: they are proudly made in the USA (including the refill cartridge). In fact, Fischer is the last remaining ball point pen manufacturer left here in the USA. That makes Fischer the only choice for me.
I have a Space Pen. I like the way it doesn't skip and it writes at different angles. It's expensive, but I write a lot and the refills aren't very expensive. I've had it for around four years now and nothing has broken.
You can buy just the cartridge and put them in whatever pen you have almost. I've got a couple pens with Fisher cartridges and used to have a Fisher Bullet. They write on anything.
I’ve been using the fisher space pen since 2009 still have the original pen I just buy the refill cartridge. It’s nothing fancy but in my line of work the pen does everything I need it to.
I've seen multiple people test the grease claim by greasing up a piece of paper tot he point where it's going to collect in the ballpoint and cause a physical obstruction. I don't think this was their intent when they made the claim, to be honest. I think they literally meant when a piece of paper collects and oily spot on it, which can really give some standard ballpoint pens trouble. I see it all the time in kitchen work where in the process of taking logs or making quick notes, you can transfer oil to the paper, making it greasy and then difficult to write on. Using that definition of writing on a greasy surface, the FSP does just fine.
I put Fisher space pen ink refills in my own makeshift pens. Zebra F701. drill out the end with 7/64 drill bit and you have a glorious steel everyday carry pen. Also put them in the zebra f 301 too. If you want a thinner barrel of a pen.
I bought one when I was child. Leave it in its packaging, never used. The packaging claimed the ink would last 100 years without drying out. I found that interesting so I bought it and planned to leave it unused for the duration of my life or most of it at least. I still have it close to 40ish years later. Long term testing.
Construction when working on a ceiling, I write upside down. But I just use a pencil. It also writes under water and when frozen or really hot. Pencils are also really cheap.
I've spent quite a bit ov money over the years trying to find the best balance between cost and function. For the time being, my favorite is the Pen Gear gel pens sold at Walmart for dirt cheap($5.84 for a 12pk.)
It's not about writing upside down. I'm an artist and I usually draw on an angled board, and the normal pen is often at an upward angle too. So that means the ink flows down into the back of the pen. So antigravity pens can be useful.
I never write on a piece of paper upside down. But sometimes I am marking something with a pen or marker upside down. If your building something, fabrication. Etc.
The reason it still messed up in the oven is because ovens do not hold a steady temperature, most ovens fluctuate about 60 degrees when using the on/off cycle to maintain an average temperature. So even though you set the oven to 245 it was most likely reaching peak Temps of almost 300 depending on its age and model.
Have you tried noodler’s bad black moccasin? That’s what I use and I’ve never had any problem’s with water. I’ve found that noodler’s are typically pretty water resistant.
@@BenjaminGoude I do like the kind he has due to cheap and I can’t get them to dry out lol.. but the metro is a dream.. but the fine amazon is Absolutly worth the $10 and way more.
The freezer test works best standing in the freezer When I worked in a restaurant I would do inventory in the freezer and the cheaper pens would stop working
You *can* get waterproof fountain pen ink, like Noodler's black and Platinum Carbon Black. But I'd agree that fountain pens aren't as great as the Space Pen, or even ballpoints, for water resistance.
Red grease is oil based, green is a clay base, do not mix the two in anything. Overtime it will turn into concrete. I'm sure the marine grease is clay based also.
It’s just a suggestion, but possibly the reason why the casing of the fisher pen didn’t hold well the heat is that it’s not the original “space” casing. AFAIK the classic casing is the metal one with the side button to hide the tip. Anyway, as for me, it did all the test the same or a little better than the competitors, so it’s actually a reliable option. Personally I have one, not with the classic original casing, and I’m pretty happy with it. Despite I don’t have to do much writing usually, I know I can rely on it when I need it.
Fountain pens are essentially gravity-fed, and their feeds use capillary action, so they'll continue to write a short time if inverted. And the ink is water-based, meaning it can freeze. This limits how and where they'll write. The Fisher space pen was developed by NASA for the Apollo Space Mission.
Tyler: "I've gone where no man has gone before, I scribble the whole (3x4) page" Quiet kid in detention with entire text book blacked out via bic pens: . . . .
I started using a SpacePen when I was in the Arctic and had to write out log entries... Worked 100% of the time! Later when flying light aircraft that are unpressurized I used them to avoid the exploding pen issue that is common for pilots. Yes, a pencil would work, but in my experience the SpacePen is worth the $$$.
You have never been to the "arctic"
@@StrawberryKitten Your assumption is incorrect. I have done 5 deployments north of the Arctic circle. 4 of the 5 were in the winter... The Antarctic though I have not yet been.
a pencil could work but there's higher risk of losing that information since it's much more easy to erase
@@CactusCycles Got any "proof" for that, Mr . Explorer?
@@StrawberryKitten Uncle Sam does... I was serving in the US military.
The reason why the space pen works so well, is because the inkt cartridge is pressurized. And upside down is usually when the pen stops working after its like half empty. And if you bought the full metallic version of the space pen, it would have endured just fine in the oven.
I was just about to explain why this works aswell, I got done watching how it's made....
Does the metallic version work half ink left?
Supposedly NASA commissioned the development of a pen that would work in zero-G by pressurizing the cartridge as you said. I used to have one. If pressure was insufficient you could open it up and pump it a couple of times which was enough to last for weeks - didn't need much. Anyway, NASA supposedly gave $3 million to Papermate for its development ($3 milion was a lot of money back then). The Russians simply gave their cosmonauts pencils. Who was smarter?
@@acfiv1421 is this meant to be a trick question?
@@acfiv1421 NASA, as it gave us a good working pen! Meanwhile, Russians are still 20 years behind in development.
amazing that a video just about writing with different pens is actually interesting for the whole 20 minutes
Tyler is honestly the only one who can make a 20 min video about writing with pens and have it still be interesting and entertaining.
Right?! I was like "This can't be that interesting."
To be honest its cause Tyler is more interesting then the products.
@@justin.gollnick
Nah, I watch way longer videos about pens than that, pretty regularly lol, but I`m becoming kind of a pen geek, so YMMV
I used one in the army, and it worked well. Also had the waterproof pads to write on. Took notes on briefing in the rain, wrote medical info when needed, and overall didn't have a problem with it.
Not only can this pen write UNDERWATER, it can also write other words as well xD
Maybe that's how they tested the grease part
I see what you did right there !!!
Solid joke. Solid
GrandSamurai69 can write underwater!
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I’ve been looking for a pen that can write in 250 degree weather. I almost never have anything to take notes with when it gets that hot out.
It's meant to be durable enough that it will never explode in your pocket due to heat, that is the point of the 250 degree resistance. Basically it's so you have a pen that you can trust will work every time you need it in any condition that hasn't killed you yet. We have the same thing sold on military bases under a different brand name and I still use them exclusively after being out for 13 years because I know it won't break on me.
I got the space pen as well, i think for 3 years now, still works like a charm. It was designed to go into space, and it has, they advertise it can work up to +250ºF
You nerds ruined the joke
@@carterjohn2151 lol I thought the same thing 🤣. Glad you caught that. Much appreciated.
Imagine you are participating in teambuilding, and you have a sauna session. The Finnish saunas are typically 80 - 110 C (176 - 230 F). With the space pen you can write even when in the sauna. That could just save your day.
This would've been really helpful to take notes during all those underwater basket weaving lessons I took
Lol its for scuba divers to write notes under water
@@krackergrit I'll keep using grease pencils for that, they write fine on anything underwater 😀
Tyler’s handwriting with the oven mit on was no worse than his normal handwriting lol
I can't like this because it's at 69 so take this as my like
@@kingBobdabuilder a true gentleman
Writing upside down is uncommon, but writing with your writing pad against a wall is pretty common and some pens struggles with that.
I do it all the time..lol
Exactly, the downward angle is enough to kill most pens, upside down is just the furthest extreme.
That's basically how whiteboard pens stop working.
You hold em with the tip higher than the body and the ink runs down, away from the tip. And then it stops writing.
Many times I use a wall or the side of a 2 post lift to write something down and it actually is an issue with most cheap pens.
yeah, i feel like the upside down thing is probably a good test for the 0 gravity claim, as that's the closest you'd get to testing 0 gravity without being in one of those 0 gravity tunnels. but a pen that can write up against something, like a wall, is super convenient. most pens can get like half a word out before they start failing
Love your show. I worked in the food industry for years and had to inspect sub zero freezers and if you want to use a pen in those it had to be a space pen. Other pens would explode when frozen. Most people just use pencils in those freezers, but love me some space pens. Just my 2 cents
Oh ya, that's it, use a pencil, that way boss man can cry about the bits of pencil crap laying around from those too lazy to find a waste bin to sharpen their utensil.
I have used Space Pens since the eighties; no troubles, no failures, no nonsense. I just bought Stars & Stripes pens for gifts last year. I can say, incredibly, that over the years I am looking at a 100% no-fault track record.
where the space pen shines the brightest to me is on airplane trips. no leakages whatsoever
@@atakamoto nice! I haven't had the chance to try it, but I carry one every day, and love it.
How long did your original pen last?
@@l0sts0ul89 well, I remember getting my first one (a silver bullet pen) in Dec 1981 when my first daughter was born, and I had it until I lost it three years later. I bought one refill for it in three years, writing short notes. I used it fairly often. I had a "compact system" where I folded one sheet of letter-sized paper to give me 16 little pages of notes, and just stuck it in my pants pocket. I kind of ran a business with that little pen, lol. Gotta say, one really gets attached to these little things once you start using them.
@@l0sts0ul89 i had it for ~3 yrs. before i lost it, as i recall.
I used to be a Pipefitter for Austal, a ship building company, it was not uncommon that we’d have to contort our bodies upside down when making measurements in places where it was Atleast 150 degrees, and I’ve had a lot of pens go out on me, I bet this space pen would’ve been a godsend.
Why was it so hot?
@@ihackedurgf hot day in a metal box
My favorite pen is the Energel Gel pen. Black specifically. It lasted me a long while (5 months of daily writing) and was the best writing and smoothest pen I’ve ever had
When they said it writes through grease they didn’t mean like raw grease smeared on a paper. They meant for like mechanics dealing with greasy dirty stuff and getting old grease smeared on a paper and wiped off. I carry space pens in my note pad and use them constantly. They are great.
Yeah, also useful when working with things like vegetable oil. Our surveyor uses one when taking measurements in the tanks as it's hard not to get oil on the paper when switching between using the dip tape and writing down the figures.
Can confirm. Food restaurant here and gel pens can have a short lifespan when they meet greasy paper. Space pen works in the freezer with no fade, and writes for a long time. Grease gets in everything in restaurant and yes ball points work fine most of the time. But ball points are prone to spontaneously not working anymore. Or one drop and they break. Lol.
Wow! Tyler can actually write and scribble ! Amazing ! 😜
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And at a 3rd grade level. lol
Mom ain’t gonna be mad about the pan, she gonna be mad about the ink all over the oven’s interior 😂😂
"If you get one drop of grease on your hands, you'll find it on your elbow, in your armpit [...]"
I'm pretty sure that's a you problem. I personally have never had that issue.
I used to do 70+ oil changes a day by myself in the pit, greasing and checking the diff fluid levels where my favorite.
I can conclude that once you touch grease it gets everywhere is TRUE.
I’ll grease truck, clean everything off with rags, and end up with grease on my face, and behind my ears.
so grease is basically like glitter
I used some silicone based grease on poly bushings to prevent squeaking... Holy s#!t. It's like grease on crack, I did literally find bits of it months later and that was already knowing it's reputation and taking extreme amounts of care...
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“And the Amazon pen is not looking so hot…” he says as the pen is literally melting in the oven 😂
I remember the electric hammer of last year😂😂
Edit: damn my bad, it’s been 3 years since that video 💀💀 time flies
Has it been a year already? Damm
That was NOT last year.
@@Mr3Trois3 been longer than a year. It was at least two years ago but I feel like it was three years. It was definitely not last year. Last year he did something else.
@@ThePrufessa Last year was the love hammer
@@Preejuu42 right right and the electric hammer was the year before that
The bullet design is better than the clicker pens in my experience, Fisher did it right the first time and didn't really need to change it up.
The click design has benefits. It's nice to have the option
Honestly, I'm surprised! Considering Tyler made an April Fool's day video about the "Love Hammer" last year, I was expecting a April Fool's day video this year too. Regardless it still was a good video!
Some context on the freeze test. My dad was a police officer in the late 70's and early 80's in Iowa and always worked the graveyard shift. This means that during winter it is always the coldest time. He used these pens since writing with a Bic when it is -20 F outside sucked. The pens would stop working or not write well enough. What ended up happening is those pens would sit on the dash right on the heat vent for the front windshield. This allowed them to thaw out to be used until they had to be cycled out.
A better test is a walk in freezer set to below zero with two layers of normal paper and a carbon paper liner.
The only thing I could think of during this was the pen episode from Seinfeld 😂
The whole reason the space pen works so well is unlike all other pens the ink cartridges are fully sealed and pressurized. So gravity, heat, cold, grease etc have a harder time affecting it. It was after all, designed to write in space haha
NASA spent millions to develop this pen. The Russians used a pencil. 😃
@@dgdixon704 the Russians also keep shooting down their own fighter jets in Ukraine 🤣
@@Odinthesleepy lmao dude really hit em with the AA (just like the russians)
@@dgdixon704NASA spent nothing developing the Space Pen. It was a private venture. The Fisher Space Pen Company sold Space Pens to NASA. As for the Soviets, they bought Space Pens too!
Working inside a gun system on a ship in the military writing down electronic test point numbers for trouble shooting on your back … that’s why I always had a space pen
i googled freezing point of ink in ink pens out of curiosity and this is what i got:
Many types of pen ink will freeze at temperatures below 32°F (0°C), which is the freezing point of water. However, some inks, particularly those used in fountain pens, may have a lower freezing point, and may freeze at temperatures as high as 20°F (-6°C) or even lower
Yes because they use alcohol based ink
I always had a full stainless parker jotter I used in high school, really liked the quality and sleek design, yet I could still get them at Walmart. For a long time they were made in the USA, they got sold to a French company and around 2006ish they started making them in France, I haven't used one in a decade though so they might even be made in China now lol.
The writing upside down is a good indicator of being able to write in zero-g. Because if it can write against gravity it can definitely write in zero-g
“The Waterpoof pen and the Amazon pen are on the same page” the most relevant yet unintended pun 😂
The secret, or at least one of them, is that the refill in the pen is pressurized. That accounts at least for the upside down writing and the zero gravity writing. Of course, the last one is why the space pen was really developed; ballpoints don't work well without gravity. You can buy the space pen refiills to fit many pen bodies, by the way.
The space pen, bullet pen, uses the same cartridge but doesn’t have the plastic spacer piece. I bet it would have done very well as a whole for the oven test.
Way to repeat what everybody's already said long before you did.
Is it like a dog and the fact that it only counts if you're the last one that pees on the fire hydrant? You lost
@@donschlonski2936 I guess you don't believe, with old Ben Jonson, that it is insufficiently considered that men need more often to be reminded than informed.
I've carried a bullet variant of the Space pen for almost 7 years or so. It hasn't let me down once. I haven't even had to change the ink cartridge.
The "Space pen" just reminds me of Seinfeld 😂
I feel like Tyler should do ASMR writing with various types of pens. I think I could listen to the sound of him writing with pens until it put me to sleep lol
I recently discovered the Tombow Airpress, I was shocked as how good it was for $8 vs. my $30 Fisher Spacepen. Though I have not tried it in grease!
Thank you so much for that recommendation! I wouldn't have splurged on a space pen but the tombow fits my budget.
@@RamoArt You don't actually have to buy the whole space pen. You can just buy the cartridge and put it in pens that use similar-looking cartridges.
@@RamoArt In defense of Space Pen, they make 100% of all their pens (including the refill cartridge) right here in the United States using fair labor. (In fact, Space Pen is the *only* pen manufacturer still left here in the United States.) Meanwhile, Tombow pens are made in China/Vietnam using slave labor. While Tombow may fit your budget, Space Pen fits my conscience in regards to buying products that are not made using slave labor.
18:44 being a firefighter in a burning house
I've been carrying space pens in my pockets for decades. They're sealed, so they can't leak. I use them regularly for filling out forms on clipboards hanging on walls at work. Regular gravity-driven pens stop writing before I've filled out the log form.
When these pens first came out I had an uncle. He was so sure he was going to become a millionaire selling the pens. He mortgaged his paid-off house and bought more than 30,000 pens. He went around trying to resell them I don't even think sold more than 1,500 of them ended up going bankrupt in fact.
Poor guy. That's terrible
@@mtnman8783 yeah, I wonder what you'd do with like 29,500 pens
I'll take things that never happened for 500, Alex.
I'm a retired engineer, and I used to have to write upside down all the time. It was very common that I'd have to lie on a dolly, on my back, slide under one of our machines, and take measurements.
I'd usually have a common yellow pad of paper, and my trusty Fisher AG-7 Space Pen (the O.G. "space pen" carried by all astronauts since the Apollo program). Now anyone who's had to lie on a dolly will tell you what a pain in the neck it is to roll over onto your belly so that you don't have to write upside down, which is why I bought a "space pen" in the first place. (It also works really well with a pad of paper pressed against a wall, another situation where most pens fail).
At work I never had to write under water, but I often had to write on things soaked with a fine spray of water droplets due to the humidity of the air condensing into water inside pressurized air lines, and not having a particularly effective means of removing the water from the pressurized air in our cheap a$$ed compressor direct to airline system. So after blowing metal chips off something with an air hose, I often had to write on something covered in a fine spray of tiny water droplets.
What a space pen will NOT DO is write under about 10 feet or more of water. The ink cartridges of the Space Pen are only pressurized to around 35psig so once the additional water pressure starts to get anywhere near about half that pressure it starts to skip and quickly stops working. So the Space Pen is NOT a good diver's pen.
Lastly DON'T buy a cheap knock-off copy of the Space Pen. I've never found one that works. Buy your Space Pen from Fisher Pens, they work. And although the AG-7 is the pen NASA buys, there's also the Fisher "Space Pen Bullet" which is an arguably better looking pen with an arguably better balance. The only problem with the Space Pen Bullet is that it doesn't have a pocket clip so that it will roll right off anything other than a perfectly flat surface. But the Bullet is imo a more comfortable pen to write with if you're going to be writing for several hours at a time, but what constitutes "comfortable", or not, varies greatly form person to person, so your millage may vary. So I'd say that the Space Pen Bullet is more of a writer's pen, where the Space Pen AG-7 is more of a practical day to day sort of pen. I own both.
I love how in every video Tyler drops little bit of lore like the part about the pan XD
My old roommate used to collect fountain pens so I figured it would be the most likely to run. But I’ve never seen anybody write on waterproof paper that’s pretty cool
I'm shocked we didn't get a new electrical hammer today 😲
The reason the fountain pen washed right off the write in the rain paper is because that paper is coated in wax. Gel type pens don't work at all on it, under water or not. The ink just sits in the surface and wipes away. They're meant for ball point pens or pencils.
I bought one of these way back in the mid 80s when I was in high school and did a presentation in class testing some of its features.
If I ever find myself in a scenario where everything around and including me is at 250 degrees hot….I doubt writing with a pen is the first thing I’ll be trying to do hahaha
I really wanted to like the Space Pen. I have had one for years and it can not write a solid line. I really like the Office Depot TŪL gel pen. It never skips. Gel is also recommended for checks since it soaks into the paper.
I have a metallic gold space pen I bought at the crater museum, I forget the name of the place. Its possible that it's a Fisher brand space pen but I'm not sure. It worked well for me and was nice to use. I haven't used it much and not at all in the last 10 years or so but I still have it... somewhere lol
wonder if it would work in salt water when diving and such.
I would love to see moms reaction to Tyler using her favorite pan.
I have several Space Pens (bullet style), love them. I use mine for recording business mileage in my car. It's the best pen for cold weather and I don't worry about it exploding in my car.
Pen comes directly from oven, without hesitation, Tyler grabs it and burns himself. Say wow yeah that's hot. I died of laughter because we all do that even though we all know darn well anything coming out of a hot over is going to be hot. 😂
Bought a couple of these when they were first introduced in the 1970’s. I was pretty impressed with it! Of course I was a kid obsessed with anything space-related at the time-- Post-Apollo 11 and PRE-Star Wars…that period of “discovery and experimentation after the first manned landing on the moon and the dream that became Star Wars!--also the Space Pen’s package art really appealed to me at the time.
NASA never invested in the Pen. Paul Fisher invested 2.5 Billion dollars of his own money into making this pen. He sold space pens to NASA. He also gifted 500 space pen to the Russian Cosmonauts. I've been using the space pen since I was 5.
Worked on a flight deck and used the space pen all the time up there due to the greasy dirty environment. It worked wonders on grease soaked papers for me.
The video shows it works good on the grease. The cheap couldn't write at all on the marine grease but the space pen did.
I love the space pen. I use the bullet pen which uses the same cartridge minus the plastic piece that melted in the one you tested. I use my pen daily and have been since 2015. My style is the raw brass bullet pen.
Never seen one in brass in stores in my area, so I've got the stainless finish. Bet the brass is sweet, though. I'll have to keep an eye out.
@@TheSnatchbuckler I ordered mine. Even had my name engraved. It doesn’t show super obviously after it’s been in your pocket a while. I have a matte black clip added to the raw brass pen. The raw brass reacts to your body chemistry (i.e. sweat, hand grease/oils, etc..) and gives it a unique visual appearance. I like it.
@@jerodslaton2282 I imagine it is pretty nice. I really like the stainless, but love the patina that comes with brass. Probably gonna have to be a belated groundhog day gift to myself.
"The space pen and the Amazon pen are both on the same page."
I see what you did there, Tyler.
Still got my space pens from the 90s they have a brass body and a lid ,when not in use the capsule is not much longer than the refill. When the lights is put on the other end it's normal pen length. The brass thread to get to refill can sieze and can get corroded. The lid is secured on with an o ring. If I remember correctly a much cheaper Parker refill will fit if you remove the plastic cam.
My dad had the posher clicky retractable one with a button on the side, the mechanism jammed.
Mine also had trouble with oily paper. I have the all chrome one, the black and chrome one. And I might still have but I've not seen it in a while gold and black one ,my first one might have been stolen in 1991-2.
Fountain pen explosion was a surprise, would have expected it to leak .
Absolutely. I have carried one and used it for 45 years!
If anyone should be given the ability to do videos with 0 gravity, it’s Tyler. I can only imagine the crazy stuff he would try.
As an Injection Molding Process Technician who has to fill out tons of paperwork (such as process windows and startup/EOJ paperwork), it's a near daily occurrence for the paperwork to be contaminated with grease or hydraulic fluid. When it comes to writing on contaminated paper (but especially when it's oil that has soaked INTO the paper such as WD-40 or hydraulic fluid), I've found that Space Pens write best in these conditions. Too many times, regular ball point pens stop writing when they get to oil soaked into the paper. And even worse, the ink of standard pens tends to break down if you spill oil (or other solvents) on the paper. I've found space pen ink to be quite chemical resistant.
And the final icing on the cake when it comes to space pens: they are proudly made in the USA (including the refill cartridge). In fact, Fischer is the last remaining ball point pen manufacturer left here in the USA. That makes Fischer the only choice for me.
I have a Space Pen. I like the way it doesn't skip and it writes at different angles. It's expensive, but I write a lot and the refills aren't very expensive. I've had it for around four years now and nothing has broken.
You sir, @ 2:01 are a master of words. A poet of your generation, and a scholar of our time.
You can buy just the cartridge and put them in whatever pen you have almost. I've got a couple pens with Fisher cartridges and used to have a Fisher Bullet. They write on anything.
Every time. “I’m gonna leave it here for 2 hours.” “Alright so its been 48 hours” 😂 gotta love Tyler bro
I carry a space pen every day. Not the click style though. Super compact, writes anywhere, easy to carry. Well worth it.
I’ve been using the fisher space pen since 2009 still have the original pen I just buy the refill cartridge. It’s nothing fancy but in my line of work the pen does everything I need it to.
The sound of wiping of grease from the papers gave me chills down my spine
I've seen multiple people test the grease claim by greasing up a piece of paper tot he point where it's going to collect in the ballpoint and cause a physical obstruction. I don't think this was their intent when they made the claim, to be honest. I think they literally meant when a piece of paper collects and oily spot on it, which can really give some standard ballpoint pens trouble. I see it all the time in kitchen work where in the process of taking logs or making quick notes, you can transfer oil to the paper, making it greasy and then difficult to write on. Using that definition of writing on a greasy surface, the FSP does just fine.
I put Fisher space pen ink refills in my own makeshift pens. Zebra F701. drill out the end with 7/64 drill bit and you have a glorious steel everyday carry pen. Also put them in the zebra f 301 too. If you want a thinner barrel of a pen.
Jack Klompas wants his pen back. 😂😂😂😂😂
I bought one when I was child. Leave it in its packaging, never used. The packaging claimed the ink would last 100 years without drying out. I found that interesting so I bought it and planned to leave it unused for the duration of my life or most of it at least. I still have it close to 40ish years later. Long term testing.
Construction when working on a ceiling, I write upside down. But I just use a pencil. It also writes under water and when frozen or really hot. Pencils are also really cheap.
I've spent quite a bit ov money over the years trying to find the best balance between cost and function. For the time being, my favorite is the Pen Gear gel pens sold at Walmart for dirt cheap($5.84 for a 12pk.)
It's not about writing upside down. I'm an artist and I usually draw on an angled board, and the normal pen is often at an upward angle too. So that means the ink flows down into the back of the pen. So antigravity pens can be useful.
It keeps writing perfectly in fridges and freezers(meat warehouse) so I love it
5:00.. absoutly true.. I used to work with semis and washbay.. my god…
“The space pen and the Amazon pen are on the same page” 😂 I lol’d
I never write on a piece of paper upside down. But sometimes I am marking something with a pen or marker upside down. If your building something, fabrication. Etc.
The fact he actually laid down is funny as hell 🤣🤣 like you could’ve just held the pen an pad upside down 🤦🏽♂️🤣🤣
The reason it still messed up in the oven is because ovens do not hold a steady temperature, most ovens fluctuate about 60 degrees when using the on/off cycle to maintain an average temperature. So even though you set the oven to 245 it was most likely reaching peak Temps of almost 300 depending on its age and model.
the fountain pen disspearing lile that was acctually pretty cool
The love hammer was one of the best purchases I've made.
As someone who has to write on invoice and receipts all day at work I love the sharpie gel pens
I personally love the Pilot Metropolitan. But fountain pen ink typically spreads like crazy with the slightest amount of water.
Have you tried noodler’s bad black moccasin? That’s what I use and I’ve never had any problem’s with water. I’ve found that noodler’s are typically pretty water resistant.
So hear me out.. the Amazon basics with a fine tip.. smoothhh but my metro yeah.. nice..
@@AverageReviewsYT I have a bunch of others, but my go to is a Metropolitan with a blunt nip. Perfect and smooth script writing.
@@BenjaminGoude I do like the kind he has due to cheap and I can’t get them to dry out lol.. but the metro is a dream.. but the fine amazon is Absolutly worth the $10 and way more.
Easier to wash out of your shirt when it leaks through your pocket?
The freezer test works best standing in the freezer
When I worked in a restaurant I would do inventory in the freezer and the cheaper pens would stop working
"Take the pen" - Jack Klompus
Tyler’s Dino nuggets are forever gonna taste like hot pen is
What about testing a gel ink pen vs the space pen?
Shirt answer: yes. I've had mine for a decade and it still works great.
What does a shirt have to do with a pen?
@@shaneh7519it goes in my shirt pocket. Duh?! 🤣
I don’t know how I watched 20 minutes of Tyler writing with 3 different pens but I did lol
Nice pen for a car. Hot/cold etc
Delivery drivers would love this pen.
Never in my life i would have thought i would be in my 30s and be exited about a 20 minute video about a space pen. Something is wrong with me
You *can* get waterproof fountain pen ink, like Noodler's black and Platinum Carbon Black. But I'd agree that fountain pens aren't as great as the Space Pen, or even ballpoints, for water resistance.
I was surprised the ink washed off so quickly and completely. Even non-waterproof fountain pen inks often leave something behind.
Red grease is oil based, green is a clay base, do not mix the two in anything. Overtime it will turn into concrete. I'm sure the marine grease is clay based also.
It’s just a suggestion, but possibly the reason why the casing of the fisher pen didn’t hold well the heat is that it’s not the original “space” casing. AFAIK the classic casing is the metal one with the side button to hide the tip. Anyway, as for me, it did all the test the same or a little better than the competitors, so it’s actually a reliable option. Personally I have one, not with the classic original casing, and I’m pretty happy with it. Despite I don’t have to do much writing usually, I know I can rely on it when I need it.
The original model is the AG7. You can still buy them, though I don't know if the design is completely identical.
I've been carrying the Fisher Bullet pen for close to a quarter of a century. I believe I've changed to in 4 times.
Everyone that uses it, loves it.
Tyler: *puts pens in oven and they melt/explode*
Also Tyler: I can't believe they exploded
I think the "grease" claim is more likely oil stained. Like a box an automotive part came in that got oil on it.
Fountain pens are essentially gravity-fed, and their feeds use capillary action, so they'll continue to write a short time if inverted. And the ink is water-based, meaning it can freeze. This limits how and where they'll write. The Fisher space pen was developed by NASA for the Apollo Space Mission.
Tyler: "I've gone where no man has gone before, I scribble the whole (3x4) page"
Quiet kid in detention with entire text book blacked out via bic pens: . . . .