Cracking Preppy

[coldman]

I have two Preppies: One FP, included with my bottle of HoD. Scratchy and noisy, but works well enough. One highlighter, included with my bottle of YotGP. It tends to dry out rather quickly, and was apparently moulded on a badly calibrated machine: The chamber inside the barrel is not perfectly centered, so that the barrel on one side is very thin. And on this thin part, two lines that I suspect are hairline cracks have appeared. One of them runs half the length of the barrel.

 

I don't want to squeeze the barrel to find out how strong it is (or was), but I'm certainly not taking this pen travelling, and risking it breaking and spilling bulletproof yellow ink in my bag. (It's not that good a highlighter anyway.)

 

Is this a common problem, or do I have a bad Preppy?

[bardharlock]

Preppy pens are known to have some cracking issues. It's a cheap pen, after all.

[HenryLouis]

Preppy pens are known to have some cracking issues. It's a cheap pen, after all.

 

Exactly. Any cheap pen will do that. Hero 616's clip likes to get bent. A clip has already fallen off of mine.

Edited June 24, 2009 by HenryLouis

[OnTheBayou]

Sorry for your experience. YOTP was next on my list but not anymore.

[glamourdoll]

I had a Preppy, then pen did not crack, the cap did, and in a huge way. I was using it at work, and it just cannot withstand the wear & tear of work writing for me. I have one at home, and for light-duty usage, I think the Preppy is fine. But it couldn't be my daily workhorse pen, no way.

 

xoxoxoxo

Lily

[ZeissIkon]

Sorry for your experience. YOTP was next on my list but not anymore.

 

I don't think there's any reason to believe YotGP had anything to do with the Preppy failure, Penguine; the Preppy is a very inexpensive pen made of a plastic that seems to have a poor fatigue life -- and the extra stress of closing the eyedropper converted units on an o-ring likely doesn't help.