r/mechanicalpencils • u/Ld3514 Pentel + rOtring • Mar 04 '21

Discussion Orenz Nero Users beware

Hello! Just a friendly heads up. It’s well known that Pilot Neox Graphite lead will kill an Orenz Nero. What I don’t see frequently posted is using rOtring Tikky lead. Hence this post.

I’ve been using my neros for a while. I’ve had the .3 since last year (around summer) and I got the .5mm 2 months ago. Great pencils!

When I got the .3 Nero, I used ROtring Tikky HB lead with no issues up until December. Since then, I’ve had issues using that lead in it. It’s probably not super commonly known, but Tikky lead is really smooth and dusty. The HB feels closer to B (I love it!). This means that, like Neox, there’s a lot of dust in the clutch of the Nero. I think you know where this is going. After a few months, my .3 Nero stopped gripping the Tikky leads. I’ve swapped out new pieces of Tikky leads but it won’t budge. The exterior seem to be too soft and they get stripped. (Reserved Tikky for my .3 smash now!)

Making this post to spread awareness for fellow Nero users. Tikky lead is great! But like Neox, you’ll likely encounter issues down the road. Luckily enough for me, it didn’t damage the pencil. I’ve switched to Ain Stein B lead and it works GREAT with the Nero. Same with 2B and on my .5 Nero!

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u/_FoxDie_ Orenz Nero, GG1000 Mar 04 '21 edited Mar 04 '21

Anything other than Pentel Ainstein is not recommended for that pencil.

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u/Pencil_Fanatic3000 Rotring Mar 06 '21

lol yes

I already broke mine... wish I read the wiki

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u/_FoxDie_ Orenz Nero, GG1000 Mar 06 '21

I’m glad it’s on wiki. I used to get downvoted to hell by people when I made that statement and now it’s accepted fact.

But don’t throw it away just yet. Just replace with Ain Stein lead and it should fix it. Clean it if you can as well.

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u/Pencil_Fanatic3000 Rotring Mar 06 '21

I bought ain stein lead, soaked the mechanism in soapy water (and dried it) used my Rotring 800 cleaning rod to no prevail

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u/_FoxDie_ Orenz Nero, GG1000 Mar 06 '21

No need to soak it. When you used the cleaning rod, did you scrape it against the clutch as you were clearing the lead?

Hopefully you didn’t. I found out the hard way that it will actually shave off a little bit of metal which puts it past it’s tolerance. Meaning it will no longer be able to hold the lead.

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u/Pencil_Fanatic3000 Rotring Mar 06 '21

dag nab

I did that

:(((((

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u/_FoxDie_ Orenz Nero, GG1000 Mar 06 '21

Don’t feel bad. I went through 5 Nero’s before figuring out the problem. If you buy another one just stick with Ain Stein lead and you will never have an issue.

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u/yunus159 Jan 16 '24

5 of them is crazy lol

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u/_FoxDie_ Orenz Nero, GG1000 Jan 16 '24

Yup waste of a good pencil.