The Many Advantages of Mechanical Pencils

I still remember the time when I was a sixth grader. Isharpen the lead. The line will never be too thick or
simply hated sharpening my wooden pencils. The leadtoo thin. All that you do is refill the lead.
used to break each time I applied even the slightest2. Consistent line: If you are an engineering student,
pressure. And if I ever forgot to carry my sharpener,then an inconsistent line is the last thing that you
then it meant having to write the whole day with aneed. With mechanical pencils, you can vary the
blunt leaded pencil which produced a really thick printthickness of the line by holding the pencil in varying
on the paper. The days are much better now. Iangles. Also, if you need a line that is 0.5 mm thick,
hardly use pencils and even when I do, I prefer usingyou simply go and purchase a graphite lead of that
mechanical pencils. I have gained much better controlmeasurement. Try achieving that with a wooden
over my handwriting. Mechanical pencils are pencilspencil.
made of synthetic materials like polystyrene and3. The balance: The wooden pencil keeps getting
have an internal mechanism that propels the graphiteshorter each passing day as you continue to sharpen
lead through the tip. The best part about them isit and this keeps changing the balance as you write.
that the writing is fine and consistent. These are idealThere comes a point when it becomes too short to
for technical applications like drafting, drawing etc.hold comfortably and write. You have simply no
Advantageschoice but to discard it.
There are many advantages of mechanical pencils asThe only negative aspect about mechanical pencils
compared to wooden pens. Here are some of them.that I could come up with is the fact that they are
not prepared from very environment friendly
1. No more sharpening: You no longer need tomaterials.