Wow…what a piece of engineering garbage.
There are literally 8 minute videos trying to describe how you have to take this device apart Papermate pencil refill video and put it back together again in order to simply add pencil lead to it when the need arises. I never would have bought these plastic landfill clogging devices if it had been described accurately as not being refillable in any reasonable manner. One can EASILY strip and reassemble an AK-47 in less time that it takes to put a new section of lead in this contraption.
Yes, others will claim that the pencil is “technically” refillable and not disposable…don’t believe them. If a pencil requires multiple disassembly processes taking more than five minutes in order to accomplish, the designers didn’t WANT the pencil to be refillable. They know if they make it cheap enough people will just give up and purchase 1,000 more plastic pieces of garbage and toss the originals in the trash.
Hell, they only contain about a couple pages worth of writeable lead to start with before you move on to another device as they contain a single 3 inch section before they run out unlike better mechanical pencils that autofeed multiple sections.
Are they comfortable to use while usable? Yes. The “cushioning” of the lead is good and firm without being so solid that it breaks frequently.
The inability to rapidly and easily refill however is a complete dealbreaker. If in government I’d take the communist position of outlawing these items entirely…they may be worse than nip-bottles in terms of the trash they create. They serve only a single purpose—to use up oil for the production of their plastic and then be discarded on a roadside, incinerated, or taking up space in a landfill. I have rarely been so grossed out by a product as this. Abhorrent. Return to a wooden pencil or obtain a real, refillable pencil that you will use for extend periods of time and not waste resources while saddling the rest of us with unneeded waste…whatever you do, do not feed the machine that is “big pencil”. And if you think I’m being sarcastic in how over the top this is? I’m not. I’ll literally shoot anyone I find pitching these abominations against our world. No cap.