Angusga
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These Pentel pencils have been my favorite mechanical pencils for many years. The erasers swivel out using an internal scroll mechanism. In use they don't click while using the eraser. The erasers are large and don't spin when you use them. They also come in .5mm, .7mm, and .9mm sizes. I've started a project using one to provide the guts for a custom pencil. I'm using the pencils plastic housings as the tubes for my custom pencil by turning them to size on my machine lathe so that I can glue my blanks over them. I'm not easily able to get the click mechanism out of the tip tube so will likely be making between center bushings to hold the blanks for turning both on the metal and wood lathes. I'll be making additional hardware for the cap end and click transition where the tubes overlap. The tip is chrome plated brass that is threaded into the pencil tube and won't need to be re-made. The tip is quite complex and would be next to impossible to make using manual machine processes.
Has anyone else used these to make a custom pencil.
Has anyone else used these to make a custom pencil.
