My own BIC pen experiment
Once again, shame on me for forgetting where I first found this post:
The BIC Pen Experiment, Part 3 | The Tinkering Dwarf
I know it's on Bubbles but I am fairly certain I saw it on someone else's round-up. Maybe Joel?
Anyway the gist of the experiment was to see how long it would take to use up the ink well in a classic BIC cristal pen. It's one of my favourite reliable pens and I don't think I'm alone in that matter. It writes well and is smooth - what more do you want from a cheap ballpoint?
I have a vast collection of pens at my disposal, and in the interest of actually using all of them, I switch between pens week-to-week. Upon reading this experiment I decided to grab my BIC Cristal ReNew from my locker at work on Monday and have committed to using it up1.
As of Monday it was about half-full, and as I type today, it's not far from the same spot. I don't write as much on weekends so it may take a while to empty it.
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This is a neat, slick-looking pen that is re-loadable! I have another ink well in my locker and if I so-chose I could put in a blue ink well from another pen. But for this time I'm just using up this ink well, I'm not going to use up both.↩