You'll want something large enough to quickly erase (erasure just means making the entire surface black, then flipping it over - it's the same surface on both sides), but small enough to do partial-erasures, so you don't need to re-write or re-draw everything all the time. Replace this with whatever large-ish, strong-ish magnets you have readily available, or can find for purchase. If you squint, you can see the circular magnets I use instead I've got a stack of four of them, which seems strong enough for me. Although it worked OK to erase, it wasn't strong enough to stay magnetically attached to the clipboard. You can see here, that I've abandoned the orange magnet from the toy, that was in the previous picture. You might have better luck, trying to glue it into place instead! It's not a perfect fit, and it wiggles a bit side-to-side, but it's good enough for me. To get the final fit, I jammed a small rubber O-ring / gasket into the pen, between the magnet and the ink-stick. With the magnet in place, the ink-stick is a bit too long, so you'll need to trim a bit off of the end that's open / after the ink. To secure it, I removed the spring from the ink-stick, and used it to hold the magnet in place - it's just a long rod, pushing from the cap to the magnet, providing a physical fit. You can see in the picture that the magnet (right - it's auto-cropped funny click for the full image) is about the same size as the ball-point (left), which allowed it to easily fit into the tip of the pen. I chose to take apart the existing stylus to get the magnet, and put it into a normal click-pen. The same string attaching it to the toy can be used to attach it to the finished product. The stylus that comes with the toy is fairly servicable, although a bit bulkier than a normal pen It might work for you depending on your hand / finger size. This part's optional, if you want a different stylus to use to draw with. Spread it on thinly, and check on it frequently, to see if it's already starting to work, and avoid it sitting too long and eating through the plastic of the drawing surface. The stuff I used seems to be gentle and/or a specific chemistry that doesn't melt most common plastics, but keep an eye on it all the same. It will take some work, as they use very strong adhesive - these things are meant to be thrown around by children, and have all manner of dirt and liquids spilled on them, after all! After you've got it physically detached, use the solvent to carefully clean off the remaining adhesive. Luckily it's in a corner, and out of the way. I was a bit rough at the start, and dented my surface. To get the drawing surface free, you'll need to remove all the screws, then find some kind of solvent (I used Goo Gone, but you can use whatever they sell near you, or possibly just some WD-40.) You'll need to carefully pry off the drawing surface from the plastic housing. (I found them to be too weak to use as "erasers", and just used some of those circular black magnets you can buy at craft stores, etc.) You'll want to carefully disassemble the toy-board, to get only the most important pieces:Įverything else can be discarded / recycled, including the other magnets.
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