Rotring Rapid Pro Safety Information?

[surikan12]

I frequently drop my mechanical pencils and my rotring 600 just died a few days ago from a severly bent sleeve.

 

Is the rotring rapid pro with the retractable sleeve safe against drops?

 

If not, could anyone please suggest a mechanical pencil that is heavy enough but safe against drops?

[Algester]

pocket friendly mechanical pencils my good sir

Rotring 800

Uni-ball shift

TWSBI precision with retractable sleeve

will be among the few pens

Tombow Zoom 505

Pentel Sharp Kerry

Edited December 22, 2015 by Algester

[RMN]

Any pencil with a sleeve sticking out is unsafe against dropping. With the sleeve retracted you still might get lead-breaks of course but the sleeve is safe then.

 

 

 

D.ick

[Dillo]

Hi,

 

I'm just wondering, but do you really need a pencil with a long, tubular tip? Some pencils have either shorter guide tubes, or conical ones such as the Pilot Airblanc, Pilot Symmetry, Pilot Dr. Grip G-Spec, or the Pilot DelFul.

 

No matter what pencil you get, if the tip is extended when you drop it and the pencil has a long, thin guide tube, regardless of whether it is retractable or not, the tube will get bent or damaged.

 

I would recommend staying away from drafting pencils if you have no need for the long guide tube at the tip. I would also recommend looking at Pilot's range of pencils to find one that may suit you. Of all the pencils I have used, Pilot's pencils intended for general writing tend to have more conical noses.

 

Dillon