Quality writing pens...

[louie]

I'm not concerned. I looked at my 9 year old F-701 from Office Depot and it's plastic inside the barrel and around the button. Around the button, the plastic says, "Indonesia" and the packaging (yes, I kept it) says, "stainless steel barrel" but nothing about all-metal.

I doubt I'll get another anyway, I'm not so fond of the style and funny design of the tip cone.

BTW, I'm noticing a few globs while writing with the Uni Power Tank 1.0; I see it's available in a 0.7, anyone tried that?

 

[desert.snake]

Fisher pens are very good. I need to take notes in a journal that is lying in the damp basement, the paper is constantly wet. A regular pen doesn't want to write on it, or you have to press it, but then it tears the paper. I tried writing with a space pen - easy! I went back there a couple of months later, some component of ink had spread, quite an interesting effect

 

[Toulouse42]

Another vote for the Uni Powertank RT. It uses pressurized cartridges like the Fisher space pen so it writes under all conditions including heat, cold ad wet with no skips. It's my new favorite pen.

Not sure if we're talking about the same thing but I use the uni Power Tank by Mitsubishi. I gave up on other pens as this does all I need.

I bought a box of maybe a dozen for very little cost. I like them so much that I give them to anyone in need.

 

[Monocrom]

I feel I now owe this forum an apology. I recently purchased 2 more f 701 pens from Amazon. Even though they did have the "Indonesia" stamp on them, these two did indeed have the black plastic tube on the inside. The package was clearly labelled as "all metal".

It appears that the design must have been changed again. It seems hit or miss if you will actually get an all metal pen or if it will have a plastic tube. But for $8can it still seems to be a good deal.

Unfortunately, I have an update. Won't be putting this on my main YT channel for review purposes down the road as I too discovered the same thing on the one I purchased. Yup, black plastic tube inside. It would just be nice to get some truth in advertising. Especially when the claim is "All metal."

 

[ghostguy6]

I'd like to know why they changed back. It must have cost a lot of money to switch out the tooling when they did go to the all metal design. They finally produced what was advertised and made a great product. Now they spend even more money to switch the tooling to make an inferior product once again.
I have lots of fabrication experience and I think it would actually be cheaper and less work to produce the all metal version. Even if they charged double for the all metal version it would be a good deal. At least I have 3 of them that are truly all metal.

 

[Monocrom]

Likely a cost-cutting measure.
But I don't appreciate that sort of garbage.
Done buying their pens.
Quite frankly should have stopped when they put out that God awful fountain pen design years ago. Literally the worst F.P. you could buy.

I'm done! Zebra thinks it's perfectly fine to cheat their customers, I hope the company goes completely bankrupt.

 

[bykfixer]

Ghostguy that was an interesting video and who would have imagined modding pens was a thing. That sounds like another rabbit hole waiting to pull me in. I think for now I am ok as I have a few samples headed my way to try out. I also ordered a few different all weather note pads just to see if they all have the same paper quality.

About 10 years ago I would not have imagined modifying a flashlight.

 

[Robocop]

I have my samples now that I ordered from an online dealer called Jetpens. Man this place has a huge selection of pens. After messing around with several new pens I really think my problem is with this cheap all weather notepad. The pens will all write on it however none of them write as nice as they do on standard paper.

Out of the ballpoint versions I tried the Uni Jetstream 0.38mm does pretty much the best followed by the Pilot Acroball T. For the gel pens the Zebra Sarasa still feels very smooth as well as the Uniball Signo and Pilot Juice Gel. I am not sure if the Pilot G2 has changed something however the latest ones I have bought do not feel the same as the older ones.

I have ordered a few different all weather notepads as I read online that there is a difference between the cheaper ones. It appears as if the original waterproof notepads were designed for a specific type of pen and although others will work the designed pens do best. I have found one made from something called Tyvek and users claim it takes ink more like natural paper. The issue here is a standard size notepad is $14.00 however it is worth a try just to satisfy my curiosity.

 

[Monocrom]

Ah, JetPens; I order from that site all the time.