Sounds dangerous

I don't think so

I mean... when they ban items there's generally a good reason... right?

I’m in my 60s…. Worked in an office for decades….. Used ball point pens all my life…. Never, not even once, saw that little ball come out of a pen. Ever….

Your jeet ass stole this image as engagement bait. For those actually interested, the reason they are banned is if a pen falls in the metal in the ball can create impurities in the titanium for important aerospace components reddit.com/r/whatisit/s/Kpnm…

You stole this exactly photo from Reddit last week where the question was clearly answered

As foretold by Sean Connery all those years ago 🤔

So its just the tip they are worried about.

@grok create several silly images of ball point pens attacking this building

Some aerospace companies also invoke restrictions on anything to do with silicon. No silicon oils, no silicon adhesives, etc.

I used to audit and work with a titanium plant in Wales. Yes ball point pens were banned. There are several instances of similar things in aerospace manufacturing.

In the Skunk Works book, Ben Rich talks about all of the weird ways titanium can be affected. Eg cadmium coated tools make titanium brittle

Nickel coated wrenches around aircraft turbine engine maintenance and assembly immic is a no-no. Blackened tools only. The Nickel rubbing off in the turbine area could cause problems as well.

Well, it's, you know, if you're carrying a ballpoint pen in your top pocket and it falls into the melt or something, so if the whole pen falls out of your pocket somewhere and ends up in the melt, the steel from the pen will melt. It's titanium, and then the only thing remaining will be the tungsten carbide ball, which could cause contamination. The ball's not going to fall out of the pen, you fucking idiots.

Tungsten balls? How do they even get their tiny legs apart?

Probably not because writing with a ballpoint is inherently dangerous. In a titanium plant, the concern is usually contamination/FOD and, in some areas, ignition risk from metal components around combustible titanium dust or fines. Approved non-metallic writing tools are often safer.

This is the dumbest engagement farming ever. As someone who has been thru site safety orientation to work at a titanium plant, this is common knowledge there 🙄

in case anyone was wondering why

The Fountain pens here are probably very cool.

Tiny tungsten ball, massive titanium problem.

There has to be a story there... how would you like to be the guy who accidentally dropped a pen into a melt and caused a critical system to fail killing possibly millions of innocent people

They dont want to become ink orporated