Better Mechanisms??

[angelo49]

If you are expecting Mont Blanc quality then you will have to pay Mont Blanc prices.

You are absolutely right, and I agree. (???$300 for the ''Name'' of a plastic pen???)
But, we can buy crappy mechanisms for $0.72 apiece.
Why not offer a better one for, say $1.50 or $2.00?
I would think some of us would buy them.
Angelo

 

[Walter]

If you are expecting Mont Blanc quality then you will have to pay Mont Blanc prices.

You are absolutely right, and I agree. (???$300 for the ''Name'' of a plastic pen???)
But, we can buy crappy mechanisms for $0.72 apiece.
Why not offer a better one for, say $1.50 or $2.00?
I would think some of us would buy them.
Angelo

Yes, I agree, but the trouble is the majority will buy the cheapest they can get so no-one bothers to make anything better.

 

[bellringer]

I think you will be surprised to how little it cost mount blance to make a mechanism if it cost more that £3 I would be very surprised

 

[Woody]

Regardless of price they should be fit for the purpose for which they are sold if they are not I always complain to the supplier and get replacements if we all done that then maybe things would change maybe

 

[bellringer]

It all depends what the drawing spec says if it give a tolerance of .20 mm than you are going to have problems but to get them all the same it needs to be about .02 mm which is very hard to hold it long run production

 

[paulm]

I sense that Alex is doing an engineering apprenticeship?

 

[bellringer]

I sense that Alex is doing an engineering apprenticeship?

Do you think we have A couple of bit were the tolerance is .01 mm and a couple with .001 of an inch

 

[Twister]

wonder if the berea ones are any better

Replacement Components Pen Kit Making Supplies Berea HardWoods

Steve

 

[Jim]

The main problem that i have had with mechs is that they become loose, if there are better ones out there at a reasonable cost i would invest in them for sure ..

 

[Neil]

No 7 mm failures but around 50% failures with Cigar mechs they are total cr*p

Ed,

What is the problem you are having with them? Is it that they are very stiff to operate when assembled or are they broken from the outset? Or summit else??

 

[angelo49]

I had mentioned earlier that I was able to use 4 out of ten machanisms
in a pack of ten.
I bought these from an AU supplier and were shipped from China or Japan
I don't remember.
4 like this and 2 with very shallow threads.