•The New Koru Toga Metal
•An NOS Black “Shark-Bite” Pilot Shaker
•A Fuji Corona model I’ve never seen before (0.5 unfortunately)
•The Pentel PS1045
•The Mitsubishi Double-knock that many were skeptical about. Unfortunately, that skepticism was well founded. It knocks into place, but doesn’t perform the secondary knock to produce the lead. Any experience/expertise on any possible remedies will GREATLY be appreciated, as always.
Pretty common. Same with Colleen WKs… I’ve had many doing this, my solution has been to rotate manually those dented plastic bits to another position and assemble again. Most of the times it fixes it.
I unclogged as far as the standard eraser piece allows as soon as I got it (it was clogged) AND flipped the center metal ring to its correct position(it now connects correctly/flush and extends fully).
I’ve spun the plastic teeth and connector: unfortunately nothing changed…
When I was twisting the nose off and activating the knock simultaneously, it gave a faint knock, but only once. After nose removal, VISUALLY the clutch extends and expands. I DIDNT try to unclog from that point. I’ll try that shortly. No lead has been getting through so maybe it was just deeper.
Thank you everyone for your assistance. I’ll let you know what happens.
It is possible that the lead broke inside during transport. I actually remove all the lead sticks from 03s when I dispatch them. Or at least the active one.
I’m not sure that’s the M3-100… I think it’s a first 300 model. It’s a super quality stainless-steel with delicate grooving. You usually don’t see that kind of high grade materials and finishings on ¥1000 pencils
Edit:
also, the refraction of light on that model suggests the dodecagonal body of the M3-300 — which cannot be a coincidence!
It’s definitely NOT an M3-300, as the 300 designation only refers to pieces with diamond-cut finishes.
As @ulfesharpe suggests, other pencils get labeled—perhaps incorrectly—as MX-100, but I know for sure one of the stainless steel double-knock styles is an MX-101.
Here are two of the ones I’ve seen/have with this designation. I wish I had some catalogs for non-Uni Mitsubishi pencils but I’m not sure any such thing exists.
