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| Dances With Tornados |
What's a good quality retractable ball point pen for under $20.00? I've been buying the Zebra F301 pens for years, good pen, but I'd like a couple of better quality and nicer pens. Thanks | ||
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Retro 1951 Tornado. I use Parker refills in mine. http://www.retro51.com/This message has been edited. Last edited by: Snapping Twig, | |||
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No worries! |
Under $20 is going to be hard for a quality pen. May just try to get a good refill from Fischer or the like. Then again, these are the best use and abuse pens.  | |||
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Parker Jotter. Bought the gel cartridge and really like how it writes. | |||
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Not sure what 'nicer' means here but I've been using Pilot pens and mech pencils for 30 years. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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| Do No Harm, Do Know Harm |
I've been using the same two Rite in the rain black metal clicker pins for over two years. Still on the original ink cartridges at that, and I used them daily. I think they were around $15 each. Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here. Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard. -JALLEN "All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones | |||
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Can't go wrong with the Zebra you are using. | |||
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Delusions of Adequacy |
Interesting trivia: the spring from one of these pens makes a perfect field expedient replacement for a missing buffer tube detent spring in an AR. Come to think of it, I never did bother putting a "correct" spring back in the damn thing. I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm. | |||
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Agree with the pen, I use Schmidt easy flow 9000 refills. | |||
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Fisher Military. Also mentioned as the Rite in the Rain pen. Enameled brass pen with a Fisher cartridge. Excellent pen. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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Anything Fisher. Love them. | |||
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I like and use the Zebra F-701 Ballpoint Retractable Pen but i have had my eye on this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071HQ83C8?th=1  "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin, 1759-- Special Edition - Reverse TT 229ST.Sig Logo'd CTC Grips., Bedair guide rod | |||
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Pilot G2 Limited It has the nicer housing than the regular G2. Under $10 and writes super smooth, especially the 0.7 | |||
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OKCGene, this thread is fortuitous because I was actually just getting ready to karma off this pen: https://www.machine-era.com/pr...-era-pen-solid-brass It really doesn't meet any of your criteria  It's a screw cap and it takes pilot G2G refills which are gel rollers, not ballpoint. But if you are interested and think you could use it I'd be glad to instant karma it to you. | |||
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| Dances With Tornados |
Wow wonderful. I'd love it! Thank you. Thats so kind and generous of you. | |||
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I hacked a Zebra 701 to replace the plastic top with a stainless one....you can see the hack at this linky But I like the way the standard military black pen (Skilcraft) writes smoothly...the Zebra inks are thick and so is the Fisher Space Pen cartridges.... "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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Parker makes a wonderful Jotter ballpoint pen , costs beteek n $18 and $22, depending on the finish. JetPens sells them. I have 2 of these pens, one filled with regular Parker ballpoint refills, and the other filled with a Parker Gelpen refill. https://www.jetpens.com/Ballpo...?&f=9dcfa9fe81e6436eThis message has been edited. Last edited by: sidss1, If you think you can, YOU WILL!!!!! | |||
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I have a few vintage Parker Pens, and thought I would go cheap on refills, as in buying them off ebay, out of 16 refills (buying from a couple places in bulk, one worked, sent the rest back https://chandlersfirearms.com/chesterfield-armament/ | |||
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Yep! I was just logging on to suggest the Parker Ball Jotter. I prefer a "fine" tip...have been using this pen for many MANY years. ___________________________ All it takes...is all you got. ____________________________ For those who have fought for it, Freedom has a flavor the protected will never know ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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Pilot G2 Limited Edition. It's $9 and uses gel ink refills. Nearly everyone I loan it to is amazed by it. Nice heft, rubber grip, metal body. Additionally, you can buy the less expensive plastic version in multi-packs. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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