Ken Mannion
   Fossil Preparation Tools & Equipment   
         Fossil Preparation Services     
Since 1980     
Instant availability from stock..... .Unbeatable experience........Unsurpassable service support & advice

 kenmannion@btinternet.com          

Our TT Fossil Preparation Pen showing

  • That all important nose and stylus
  • Instructions for use, support details
  • Pre fitted air connector, filter and a heavy duty 5 feet long hose
  • Lubrication oil in convenient dropper bottle
  • The protective sheath,
As delivered in its foam lined box

Max blows per minute 13500.   Air flow 1.1 cfm.
Vibration level 4.2 m/s/s.   Sound level 79 db.

  Fossil Preparation Pen. Model TT
      Pneumatic air operation   

Our TT Fossil Preparation Pen is one of our most versatile pens. Before we adapt them to a new life of fossil preparation, their original designed for use is within industrial manufacturing environments, for uses such as the removal of welding slag, deflashing castings, and etching on metals.

Fossil preparation however puts unique demands on tools. Our TT Fossil preparation pens have evolved and are specifically adapted from these industrial pens to meet these demands.

Some of our modifications include

  • 2 completely remanufactured parts. Including a considerably stronger stylus with around 10 times the amount of tungsten carbide at the tip, for an extremely long life in a grade better suited to working with stone. And a completely new nose, gives greater support to the stylus, enabling matrix removal at the finest level to be maintained. Fossil prep typically is done with the pen at a more acute angle increasing considerably the side load on this critical part.
  • 4 remachined or replaced parts. Enabling the pen to run considerably more smoothly and for longer with exceptionally more finesse without loss of performance.
  • Assembling, testing and adding essential accessories. No need to have to source fittings, hoses, oils etc or assemble them yourself. Ready to use straight away.
  • Total spares and servicing and support

The TT Fossil Preparation Pen is deceptively powerful for its size, while being genuinely capable of truly fine finishing work, with a surprisingly meagre air consumption. It has a wide power range and is easily and instantly varied for close or fast work. Very popular with users who prepare larger ammonites or multiple ammonite / bone blocks, from the hard nodules of the lias and other "difficult" rocks.

Stenopterygius sp.  Upper Lias Lower Jurassic Whitby Yorkshire
Shown with areas in various stages of preparation from roughed out to near finished. This very large nodule contained in 3D, a skull, post cranial verts and a paddle of this large Ichthyosaur and was preserved in the typically very hard, heavily pyritic limestone. It was prepared exclusively with our TT pen from start to finish. The TT pen with its combination of power and finesse, meant that it was the ideal choice for fast, hard matrix removal and finishing. Note the specimens equally massive rostrum laying in the background.
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  Last revision/update 21st May 2009