rOtring Automatic LS

Pdunc67 · November 9, 2024, 2:15pm

How do you engage the locking system on the Automatic LS?

Heath · November 10, 2024, 2:34am

Just like any other retractable tip - knock while pressing the lead pipe in. In the case of the auto LS, it doesn’t go in all the way, leaving about a mm.
Retracted:

Extended

Pdunc67 · November 10, 2024, 3:26am

Thanks. I was overthinking things

Heath · December 22, 2024, 1:58pm

And I forgot to show them all retracted:

amjacobs7 · December 25, 2024, 9:24am

But what about the Automatic LS with the Alpha style tip? That one doesn’t retract right? Or was it just Automatic, not an LS.

Heath · December 25, 2024, 1:59pm

Yes, every automatic rOtring has the locking slide (LS) feature. From left to right, you have:

Tikky automatic, white
Tikky metallic LS
Tikky automatic LS
Tikky automatic LS with alpha style tip (technically the first rOtring 400 version)
rOtring 400, graphite (silver version not shown)

amjacobs7 · December 26, 2024, 3:30am

Thanks. I thought the alpha-style tips were BPs.

This full retraction of the alpha-style tip is a major advantage. If you drop the drafting version, its tip is still toast. I understand that the marketing piece says that LS keeps the pencil from accidentally advancing, but clearly a bigger benefit would be tip protection.

One other note, should we continue referencing conical tips with ‘alpha’ nomenclature? Here are a few alternates that we could consider:

Conical tip
BP-style tip
Writing tip
Writing sleeve tip