Saturday, September 13, 2014

Nice To Think About, But No

At the Philadelphia Show in January, Joe brought this Parker Vacumatic along for show and tell. He doubted its legitimacy, but wanted a second opinion:



What was unusual about the pencil was the lead size: a full 2.0 millimeters, comparable to a modern drafting pencil:


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2 comments:

  1. MattSeptember 15, 2014 at 3:26 PM

    Jonathan, how is mechanism held in this pencil? Normally, the threaded cone/tip holds everything together. However, the cone/tip on the Non-Stop pencil is a press fit in the end of the barrel and is not attached to the guts.

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  2. Jon VeleySeptember 16, 2014 at 5:52 PM

    Good point, Matt. Remember that noses screw onto Cross-made mechanisms, but the three thin bands on this one show earlier production. My recollection is that this one had the two-stage mechanism that screws into the upper part of the lower barrel. The tip was permanently affixed to the end.

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