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Non-Gravity-Fed Mech Pencil
I use a number of 0.5mm mechanical pencils, and am sick to death of one issue with their feed systems. At the point in between the last few mm of a spent lead, and the beginning of the new lead behind it ... things stall. You sit there, shaking and pushing the lead advance button, and eventually the next lead creeps its way down until it is long enough to be "grabbed" by the friction catch that holds the lead in place. By that time, I've stopped what I was doing, lost my train of thought, and devoted all of my efforts in a frantic pitch to get the pencil to work. Sometimes in desperation I open the back of the pen, shake out an entire new lead from the supply barrel, and feed it _backwards_ through the tip in order to finally get back in business. Regardless of how they're marked .. ."click", "shake", "technical", etc .. it all boils down to one thing. The new lead has to rely on gravity to come down far enough to be grabbed by the catch. Is there any alternative? I once used those old style spiral-fed pencils; but they only come in 0.7mm and fatter, and have very little capacity (i.e. only the length of the single lead inside). Is there a 0.5mm mechanical pencil that feeds more reliably than all that? |
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