papNal
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I just ran into a new (to me) problem,I've got a couple hundred pens,both free and sold scattered around my area,up to now no problems.Today had to replace a bad 7mm transmission on a friends pen who has bought about 7 pens.He mentioned that he had replaced all the generic cross refills with genuine CROSS refills now none of the pen points will extend as far as they should.PUZZLING so I checked out the one I replaced the trans. on and found that some cross refills are larger in dia. than others the refill he was using was blue (shouldn't matter) the ones I had was black (and smaller in dia.).The nib hole in the various kits I tried was too small for the larger refill barrel to go into,just leaving less than 1/8" point exposed also kept it from locking down.I relieved the inside hole a little with a 1/8" bit and things worked ok.Now I'm afraid of customers getting the larger refill and having problems.Alyone else run into this? Thanks John