Help With Rotring 800

[AndrewThomas]

Hi all,

 

I have a Rotring 800 that I use on a daily basis. It's been great. That is, until this morning, when it literally exploded during my Latin class. More precisely, the tail piece (that turns to deploy the point) went flying off.

 

 

I at first though that something had broken, but I've since figured out that instead of breaking, something has been surreptitiously unscrewing.

 

I've pieced the whole thing back together, as can be seen in the below photo, and I can (with some difficulty) start to screw it back together. But every time I deploy the tip, it slowly unscrews it again until it pops open. The turning of the tip deployment slowly unscrews the whole top of the pencil. You can see the visible threads in this picture, just above the top of the clip.

 

 

 

 

I know there are some Rotring aficionados on this forum. Can someone help explain what I'm doing wrong? Or is something wrong with the pencil?

 

Thanks!!

 

-Andrew

[Hardcase]

I'm going to say that something is wrong with your pencil. I've got a Rotring 800, too, and the end piece only turns enough to deploy or retract the tip and not a degree more.

[AndrewThomas]

You may be right, but I just want to clarify that knob/piece that deploys the tip doesn't move beyond enough to that, but in doing so, it loosens the part next to it.

 

Thanks--I'm pretty frustrated....

[Moshe ben David]

Have you contacted Rotring to see what they have to say?

[JPS_Rotring]

Either contact Rotring, as this is a current model they will repair it for free. Otherwise use a drop of Loctite or Epoxy on the threads.