Rotrings breaking when you drop them is really common which I wish it didn’t, they’re heavy and that makes the tip really fragile, I managed to repair a blended tip on my other rotring sometime ago. The picture of your rotring is really beautiful, I think it resembles well the phrase “To be loved is to be changed”, you used it over a decade! you are right by feeling proud.
I hope you can repair it though, I think jetpens sells replacements for the tip, and caps for protecting it as well while you are not using it. I haven’t been able to purchase neither of those because the shipping to my location is expensive so I can’t tell from my experience.
The 600 held up for the majority of that decade. I was able to repair the exposed lead guide but at this point its entirely pushed in and deformed such that lead won’t advance. I know at least one hobby shop nearby that sells 0.7mm drill bits and I’d like to try reviving it before replacing it.
I hoped the retractable brass carriage on the 800 would handle drops better and protect the lead guide. Three weeks in I drop it with the carriage out and it landed on the tip. Something internal broke and I couldnt figure out how to disassemble it on my own. Can probably look it up, maybe message jetpens since I bought it through them.
Repairing my OG sounds better, though. There’s a lot of history there. The guide is so deep into the barrel it’ll be tough to bend it out of shape again lol. Considering my tendency to drop things I’d much rather have something repairable.
Man, this pencil is even more important to me than I realized. Thank you, truly.
Lmao I read your notes closer, you know exactly what I’m talking about in terms of repair-ability. Looks like a systems or mfg engineering class? I wrote almost my entire mechanical engineering degree (All ten years of it!) with my 600.
I wrote almost my entire mechanical engineering degree (All ten years of it!) with my 600.
Wow impressive, that’s what I’m aiming for, I’m a computer engineering student, and recently a mathematics student, I really like writing math with the rotring.
I wouldn’t want to write Navier-Stokes or FEA matrices with any other pencil tbh. I was a course short of a math minor and am currently investigating Computational Science Masters programs; I REALLY like CFD.
I tried to bore out the original tip but I’m going to have to purchase a new one from JetPens. I’m tempted to trim the lead guide back by half or more once it arrives but I’m still simmering on that idea.
Rotrings breaking when you drop them is really common which I wish it didn’t, they’re heavy and that makes the tip really fragile, I managed to repair a blended tip on my other rotring sometime ago. The picture of your rotring is really beautiful, I think it resembles well the phrase “To be loved is to be changed”, you used it over a decade! you are right by feeling proud. I hope you can repair it though, I think jetpens sells replacements for the tip, and caps for protecting it as well while you are not using it. I haven’t been able to purchase neither of those because the shipping to my location is expensive so I can’t tell from my experience.
The 600 held up for the majority of that decade. I was able to repair the exposed lead guide but at this point its entirely pushed in and deformed such that lead won’t advance. I know at least one hobby shop nearby that sells 0.7mm drill bits and I’d like to try reviving it before replacing it.
I hoped the retractable brass carriage on the 800 would handle drops better and protect the lead guide. Three weeks in I drop it with the carriage out and it landed on the tip. Something internal broke and I couldnt figure out how to disassemble it on my own. Can probably look it up, maybe message jetpens since I bought it through them.
Repairing my OG sounds better, though. There’s a lot of history there. The guide is so deep into the barrel it’ll be tough to bend it out of shape again lol. Considering my tendency to drop things I’d much rather have something repairable.
Man, this pencil is even more important to me than I realized. Thank you, truly.
Lmao I read your notes closer, you know exactly what I’m talking about in terms of repair-ability. Looks like a systems or mfg engineering class? I wrote almost my entire mechanical engineering degree (All ten years of it!) with my 600.
Wow impressive, that’s what I’m aiming for, I’m a computer engineering student, and recently a mathematics student, I really like writing math with the rotring.
I wouldn’t want to write Navier-Stokes or FEA matrices with any other pencil tbh. I was a course short of a math minor and am currently investigating Computational Science Masters programs; I REALLY like CFD.
I tried to bore out the original tip but I’m going to have to purchase a new one from JetPens. I’m tempted to trim the lead guide back by half or more once it arrives but I’m still simmering on that idea.
We are so back
WE ARE BACK!!! Glad that your Rotring is back on the game man 😎. enjoy it as much as you can.