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agb100
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Nov 17, 2018
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Most people do not realize that MASSDROP is just another retailer. Moreover, the ad is deceptive stating that the pen is resin - which would justify the pricing. It is acrylic with a few small resin parts: https://thepelikansperch.com/2018/10/01/pelikan-m600-vibrant-orange-announced/
Too bad. If it were acrylic, as MASSDROP suggests, I would have been the first customer. But gold is not silver, tuna is not salmon, and this pen is not made of resin, but just a common plastic.
BravoHotel
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Nov 18, 2018
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agb100If you were a Pelikan collector, you'd likely know the lineup and what Pelikan uses.
agb100
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Jan 17, 2019
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semka
In polymer chemistry and materials science, resin is a solid or highly viscous substance of plant or synthetic origin that is typically convertible into polymers.[1] Resins are usually mixtures of organic compounds.
Acrylic - which is the material I cited is manufactured by several methods, the principal one being the acetone cyanohydrin (ACH) route. ACH is produced by condensation of acetone and hydrogen cyanide. The cyanohydrin is hydrolyzed in the presence of sulfuric acid to a sulfate ester of the methacrylamide, Methanolysis of this ester gives ammonium bisulfate and MMA. Although widely used, the ACH route coproduces substantial amounts of ammonium sulfate.
Totally different materials, one is organic, the other is not. One is of what fine pens and eyeglass frames are manufactured. The other is cheap plastic made to look like the first.
agb100
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Jan 28, 2019
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aarnoldyI cannot make you understand or comprehend anything. Read the links I supplied. Resin usually referrs to liquified organic materials that is typically milled and then polished from a solid bar stock. Inorganic plastics are defined in the literature and they can be formed from various stock, molded, bent into shape, so on. Most pens are made from various acrylics not organic resins. When you buy these, just make sure you know exactly what you're buying, the same way you want to know what steels a blade is made from, how it was tempered, and if the maker is reliable in what he's describing as such.
BravoHotel
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Feb 4, 2019
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agb100Again, if you are truly a pen collector, the material may or may not be as important as it's a subjective choice. As a long time Pelikan collector, I know what I am getting into. For those who are not familiar with the brand, then it's a learning process and as a consumer, you can choose to purchase or not.
Pelikan describes their resin here: https://www.pelikan.com/pulse/Pulsar/en_US_INTL.CMS.displayCMS.252329./the-special-pelikan-quality And it's synthetic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_resin
Theroc
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Apr 28, 2019
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agb100The word resin is used, almost universally, in the pen world to describe any plastic that isn't celluloid or ebonite. And acrylic is generally considered a resin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylic_resin
In fact the word resin does not ONLY imply plant resin aka Rosin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosin
or insect resin aka Shellac:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellac
there are:
epoxy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoxy
polyester: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyester_resin
and other synthetic resins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_resin
So there's nothing deceptive about the word resin.
And if you are here: "It is acrylic with a few small resin parts"
implying that the M600 uses any rosin in it's construction, I have not found any evidence of that anywhere. Maybe if Pelikan are using Shellac as an adhesive, though I doubt that too.
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