Originally Posted by
jonveley
Originally Posted by
KBeezie
Don't a lot of the older ones simply feed the lead up the same way it came out, as opposed to opening and refilling?
Yes. This one included, regardless of whether it's screw drive or a leadholder. There's no opening up the back end and dropping something in on this one.
The nose (on the left of the photo) does provide a finely threaded lead advance when it's extended. No matter the position of the lead advance, its still possible to retract the entire nosecone into the barrel for storage just by tipping the pencil upside down. Mine has to be given a little help likely due to a shallow dent in the barrel.
Jon, I'm not going to part with it yet but if you'd like to see/photograph it I can send it to you.
--greg
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