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I keep telling myself 'you don't need a Rotring 600, you don't need a Rotring 600' but Amazon just dropped the price of a black one from £53 to £27 and there's a little devil on my shoulder that's whispering in my ear, telling me that I do.
At 3.10 minutes into the video, your thumb is right on where you need to turn with a coin to free this long narrow piece, that you did not remove, in order to access all the dirt taken out earlier with the hanger. The latter now becomes unnecessary. Someone may have comment earlier on this. Just saying.
Thank you so much for the tutorial! I got gifted a transparent lamy pen a while ago and it was good, but now M63 refills are pretty expensive in my country. You basically saved my pen and my wallet XD
I'm impressed with the Ohto Rays. Very like a Jotter but longer, seems to have a few nice design flourishes a Jotter doesn't (like Ohto and Rays written, in tiny writing, on the steel half of the barrel, in exactly the same colour as the plastic lower half) and, depending on where you source one, they tend to be cheaper, as well.
On the clip: the same company sells a loop you can stick into a journal. The size of the pen works wonderfully for this purpose, even for shorter pocket journals. And the pen is hardy enough to do well jostling around in a bag.
These AG7's now command quite a high price on eBay. Around (just under and over) the £100 mark in the UK. The one I bought my dad, in the late 80's / early 90's, came back to me, when he passed. I probably paid between £25 and £30, at the time. Also, I think there are people out there who consider these viable 'edc worthy' options but I don't. I think they're fragile. I was very surprised to see 2 cracks where the brass bit, with the threads, is press-fit into the top half of the barrel and the brass threaded insert, that joins the 2 halves together, was loose moving. Every time you clicked the side button to retract the ballpoint, a gap between the 2 halves opened up more and more. Very perplexing. Maybe my dad was a bit heavy handed when screwing it together, at some stage. For a few years, I held it together with tape but I recently did a more permanent (hopefully) repair by cleaning, roughening with needle files and using 2 stage epoxy to hold the, what should have been a press-fit, threaded brass insert in place. Main takeaway is this, though: with how fragile and valuable these are, now, I wouldn't 'edc' it in a bag or a pocket, without some protection, like a hard case. In fact, I would keep it in the house and use it sparingly. I wouldn't call an AG7 a viable edc option, in any way whatsoever. I know that wasn't the subject of the video. Just saying. Because I've seen some people mention these as edc options but I wouldn't recommend it.
That’s all true and yes I would not consider the ag7 to be a viable edc pen except if you are very careful. People did keep their pens in pocket protectors for a reason though! The pen does have a lifetime warranty which fisher actually honors but it’s for replacement, not necessarily repair.
That's. More valuable information for owners, thanks. I'd heard about that guarantee again, recently. I'd forgot. Wasn't sure, in theory, how I might have gotten on with that, without a receipt (probably OK from what I hear) but it wouldn't have been the same pen that my mother said he was lying in bed with, writing upside down with, amazed that it didn't stop working. He also needed something to mark tiles with, when tiling the bathroom, remembered he had the Space Pen and used that (successfully too). I could tell you picked up on that principle, when you mentioned they'd probably replace, not repair. Yeah, I'd rather have the exact same pen, now fixed and working, even though it has, practically, no resale value above about 10 pounds or dollars. Cheers.
I believe that clear pen is an old (i.e. classic) and much loved style of pen that Kaweco has been making, in many variants, for a very long time, called a Kaweco Sport. Since 1938, or something like that.
Just got one of these and think it’s pretty cool. Agreed that the price is a bit questionable. Also agree that the stock ink cartridge is not so smooth. I replaced with a Schmidt easyFLOW 9000 and big improvement. Thanks for the review!!
I just ordered another T-3 off of Amazon. I lost my last one (Geocaching) after caring it for a year and a half. It's not for everyone though, its only 4" long and has a very slim diameter, not the best for writing letters but to have (EDC) in your pocket at all times so your prepared when the time comes that you do need it, it literally disappears in your pocket! My wife askes for it every time we are at the grocery store to cross off her shopping list as she goes, always forgets to bring one with her. For $5.83 shipped to my door you just can't beat it!
2 years later and still Yoseka seems to be the only place to get it. I like this a lot more than the alloy and maybe even more than the philography. I wish it would come out on amazon so I could get it with prime shipping
Wow thank you. Total lifesaver saving me so much frustration. I was pushing that red button and the thing would slide down, but then I'd say, now what? I wasn't going far enough to let the flap open. Phew!
I decided back in 2022 that these notebooks would be my notebook for life. Im an architect and constantly do skeches so I bought a pack of 30, currently have used 2. I still love it and as a leftie, this notebook is God sent!
The Perfect Pencil sounds like a good idea for a sketcher. Personally I would go for the 15$ version and look for a good entry level fountain pen with a gold nib. On another very different note, I got a beautiful lacquered S. T. Dupont Classique Rollerball. Had someone in this Community hacked a refill to fit it? If so, which one and what you did? Thanks in advance! EDIT: The hacking of a Dupont Classique Rollerball Refill part.
Wow...it's not even close! Lol Guess picking the flir was the right choice for me. I kept getting hung up on the Seek having greater thermal resolution but seeing it in action the flir gem 3 is DEFINITELY the way to go. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!
These are pretty pricey and I think the Schmidt Easyflow 9000 rolls smoother but the Jetstream is smooth and I think the black ink is darker than what's in the Schmidt. I just took delivery of a pen I've liked the look and feel of, since childhood but it took me a long time to get round to looking for one for myself: a Parker 45 Flighter. So I put the Jetstream in that and I can already tell I will be using that one a lot.
Cult Pens in the UK list the new version (GS01) as 'Ohto Horizon 2021' but it's pictures of a GS01 and it's a GS01 that you get. Same pen with not very much difference (e.g. regular click, no side button, etc). It comes with a PS-107NP refill inside (0.7mm biro needlepoint), Parker G2 size, that puts down a line that looks just as thin as their PG-105NP gel refill (which can be bought separately but also comes in the, very cheap and very nice, Ohto Rays pen). But yeah, the new GS01 version, since 2021, without the side button, takes all Parker size refills, which is nice. I kept it fine needlepoint by giving it the PG-105NP, from a Rays and gave the Rays a Schmidt Easyflow 9000, instead.
Love the Dry X20. Red in .07 is my daily driver. Replaced all of my G2s. Much less bleed. Running the Sarasa refill in my G2 Limited. Fits perfectly. No rattle. Keep the springs with the refills they came with. Don’t swap them.
Thank you very , very much for the video. I wish too change the color of the cartridge AND the color of my Platinum Plaisir was using and your video has taken out all my doubts how to do this. In my case it came with black ink and I've wanted to use blue.First I've used "your" method on a Preppy and it worked just perfectly. There's out there on RU-vid a lot of complex processes but yours is the best : simple and works. Thank you very , very much again ! Muito, muito obrigado pelo vídeo. Queria também mudar a cor do cartucho E a cor que a minha Platinum Plaisir estava usando e seu vídeo tirou todas as minhas dúvidas de como fazer isso. No meu caso ela veio com tinta preta e eu queria usar azul. Primeiro usei o "seu" método em uma Preppy e funcionou perfeitamente. Existem muitos outros processos muito complexos no RU-vid, mas o seu é o melhor: simples e funciona. Muito, muito obrigado novamente!
I'm very confused about one thing -- which pens are actually compatible with the Schmidt 8120 or P8120 refills? I inadvertenly bought a P8120 thinking that it would fit my Parker Jotter + I was very sadly mistaken
Yes this is confusing. Very few pens. Can use the full size 8190. It’s basically an old school rollerball size. The p models are shorts and can be used with some newer pens like certain Lamy rollerballs and even some kaweco
I ordered the brushed black on Amazon because it was reduced to less than half RRP; way cheaper than it could be found on eBay, or anywhere else. The bottom section of barrel is ribbed, with concave, lateral, ridges in it, like this one but it doesn't look like a rubber grip, in the pictures because in between the lateral ridges looks like exactly the same brushed effect as the rest of the barrel. I actually hope it doesn't have a rubber grip. I'm, very much, looking forward to finding out.
Thanks for the comparison! It helped me make the right choice (for me). I prefer the slightly more sleek darker look of the titanium metal, and I like heavier pens but dang that steel one is a beast. So despite the higher price, I went for the titanium 👍🏻
I really like Faber-Castell 9000 line, so I am tempted to buy Perfect Pencil 9000, just for fun and appreciation. It is interesting they use shorter pencil then the usual 9000, I already use tip protectors and pencil extenders, so to have same brand one is nice. But for practicality, it doesn't seem worth it.
This is NOT an all metal. All 701s have plastic threads on both the tip and the end. There is a plastic sleeve inside the main body. That sleeve is what the tip and click mechanism thread to. The metal body is not threaded.
