A week or so ago IÂ posted that my employer had given me some ‘psuedo money’ to buy clothing with the company logo on it to go with some new, inbound security proceedures.
Since they used a third party to manufacture and distribute the stuff, my order actually showed up in a decent amount of time, in an organized manner and complete.
One of the tiems I had to pay for myself was a new pen. Folks who do a good deal of writing as part of their job can appreciate a good, solid writing utensil. Just like a reliable firearm will bring you years of shooting pleasure, a good pen will make sure that you aren’t distracted in putting what you want on paper by flimsiness or stoppage.
Which is why, for nearly the past decade, I’ve had one of these
The Welton R563
Solid brass with nickel plating, approximately the same weight as a Snap-On 14mm 6-point deep socket, and with what they call “unique wire stich pattern barrel”.
When I first started working for thsi company, I spent a decent amount of time in the repair shop, getting to know the mechanics. If you need a truck fixed pronto, especially so that you can get another driver on the road, it is a good idea to spend some time with the guy who’ll set another repair aside and get that one out the door for you (or at least give you a realistic ETA for the repair, instead of ‘yeah, it’ll probably take a week!’).
One of the things that they all liked was my Welton, because they saw it for what it was: The best pen a mechanic could ever have.
The “wire stich pattern” is actually stainless steel braid normally used on hydaulic lines, and that is just cool feature #1. The braiding also acts as a ‘sure grip’ feature when your hands are less than clean or you’re wearing gloves, like the usual state of a mechanics hands. The other cool feature is that it uses a medium roller ball and liquid ceramic ink cartridges, so that it is not only refillable, but you can write smoothly, even across dirty paper, and the ball won’t clog and stick.
It took me five years of telling the ‘company gear aquisitions guys’ about them to get them in the catalog, but they finally did it at the first of this year. So now the shop and even some of the drivers are all sporting these pens with the company logo on them.
I win, yet again. For my original pen is the only one without the logo, and therefore cannot be ‘borrowed’.
Braided stainless is good stuff on brakelines, helps resist expansion – kewlstuff. It’s not so necessary on bathroom plumbing, but if they’re exposed it looks much better than plastic pipe – so I used it everywhere. 😉
where can I pick one up? or can I?
yeah where can i pick one up as well, would you be willing to buy/sell/ship them from your company store/other location to a yank stuck in germany?
Heya guys, glad you liked them. I would suggest that any retail stationary store should stock them and others in this line, as well as the refills. The pens are around $8-10 and the refills from $3-5.
Just make sure to take the name and model number with you.
I’ve done a web search, but unless you want to order 50 or more, I’m not finding much.