Thank you for sharing this video. Couldn’t find the refills for the expendables. Now I know. I also have a Zebra F-301 compact. I don’t think Zebra makes them any more.
Bit of a stationary and pen nut here, so love your video - Two expandz are on their way to me right now! I only find your highly energised and enthusiastic hand movements a little distracting - and in this case because you wanted to show us ALL the options the screen got a little frenetic what with the close crop of the action with products and fast hands. But I see this is a 4 year old video - I'm sure you're a smooth operator now!
Regarding your request for ideas on what kinds of non-Zebra refills might work in Zebra pens: I have heard that people who don't like the full-sized Fisher cartridge that the bullet pen and astronaut pens come with have been using Zebra cartridges instead, and supposedly they fit the Fisher pens just fine. So I'm thinking it should work in the opposite direction as well, (i.e., that the Fisher cartridges should probably fit the Zebra pens too, although I don't know that for sure, as I don't own any Zebra pens at the moment, only a couple of their mechanical pencils). Since your video makes clear that you're into both brands, I don't guess it would be too hard for you to test that theory. If you actually do, please post a reply about it here, as I'm now pretty curious. Also, don't forget that Fisher cartridges come with a white plastic adapter for using them with pens that take ISO9000/Parker-style refills . . . which is no small thing, considering how many complaints I've been hearing in recent years about Parker cartridges leaking and messing up people's favorite pens that they have owned for years and years. I'm not sure if the leaks are related to Parker having been bought out by Newell-Rubbermaid, and their last "legacy" factory in England being closed and moved to France, or if they were already having quality problems when they were still making them in their original, 85-year-old factories in the U.S.A., England and India. Oh, almost forgot, now I have a question for you: Did you notice a country of manufacture statement on the Expandz models or the packaging they came in? I have resisted buying telescoping Zebra pens that I have seen in stores here in the U.S. partly because they are made in China, and as a general rule I don't buy goods from Communist countries unless I personally know that the labor/human rights situation at the factory is okay, and partly because they are just so poorly made. If the Expandz pens that they are selling in the U.K. are more substantial, maybe they are making them at their home factory in Japan or elsewhere? I'm surprised and appalled that most of what Zebra, a huge Japanese multinational conglomerate, offers here in the States is such flimsy junk. It's not just a problem with the telescoping ballpoints that they're having made in China, either. Their more standard click-activated ballpoints from Indonesia are fairly hideous also, with a very thin and brittle plastic grip section, a barrel made of tissue paper-thin tubing, and a stamped sheet metal pocket clip formed under enough pressure to bend it but not enough to unsharpen the edges. These amateurishly-manufactured, third-world Zebras usually have a Japanese-made cartridge inside, and that always makes me curious about what kinds of writing instruments they might be making and selling in their home market, or in Europe. The two Zebra mechanical pencils that I own were made in Japan and I am generally pleased with them even though they are pretty cheap. At least they are mechanically stable, and they have spring-loaded pocket clips, which is a big "thing" in Japan, but usually seen only at much higher price points.
You kind of need to feel your way around. There's a small hole in the middle where it slots in. Have you had any luck with that? Also, exactly which version of the Zebra pen do you have. There's one I have that can take a normal D1 refill, but it won't work for any of the others.
Your hand movements are very spastic, nervous, jittery, confusing. You flop them and the product around and it affects clear information. In the dialogue, you switch between B, C and A (and sometimes D) so the viewer doesn't know which pen you are commenting on. Otherwise, a nice video.
Thank you for sharing this video. Couldn’t find the refills for the expendables. Now I know. I also have a Zebra F-301 compact. I don’t think Zebra makes them any more.
Time for a review of the Zebra Expandz Ballpoint Pen Stainless Steel? I don’t find any review of it online
Bit of a stationary and pen nut here, so love your video - Two expandz are on their way to me right now! I only find your highly energised and enthusiastic hand movements a little distracting - and in this case because you wanted to show us ALL the options the screen got a little frenetic what with the close crop of the action with products and fast hands. But I see this is a 4 year old video - I'm sure you're a smooth operator now!
Whats the lamy refill model?
Regarding your request for ideas on what kinds of non-Zebra refills might work in Zebra pens: I have heard that people who don't like the full-sized Fisher cartridge that the bullet pen and astronaut pens come with have been using Zebra cartridges instead, and supposedly they fit the Fisher pens just fine. So I'm thinking it should work in the opposite direction as well, (i.e., that the Fisher cartridges should probably fit the Zebra pens too, although I don't know that for sure, as I don't own any Zebra pens at the moment, only a couple of their mechanical pencils). Since your video makes clear that you're into both brands, I don't guess it would be too hard for you to test that theory. If you actually do, please post a reply about it here, as I'm now pretty curious. Also, don't forget that Fisher cartridges come with a white plastic adapter for using them with pens that take ISO9000/Parker-style refills . . . which is no small thing, considering how many complaints I've been hearing in recent years about Parker cartridges leaking and messing up people's favorite pens that they have owned for years and years. I'm not sure if the leaks are related to Parker having been bought out by Newell-Rubbermaid, and their last "legacy" factory in England being closed and moved to France, or if they were already having quality problems when they were still making them in their original, 85-year-old factories in the U.S.A., England and India. Oh, almost forgot, now I have a question for you: Did you notice a country of manufacture statement on the Expandz models or the packaging they came in? I have resisted buying telescoping Zebra pens that I have seen in stores here in the U.S. partly because they are made in China, and as a general rule I don't buy goods from Communist countries unless I personally know that the labor/human rights situation at the factory is okay, and partly because they are just so poorly made. If the Expandz pens that they are selling in the U.K. are more substantial, maybe they are making them at their home factory in Japan or elsewhere? I'm surprised and appalled that most of what Zebra, a huge Japanese multinational conglomerate, offers here in the States is such flimsy junk. It's not just a problem with the telescoping ballpoints that they're having made in China, either. Their more standard click-activated ballpoints from Indonesia are fairly hideous also, with a very thin and brittle plastic grip section, a barrel made of tissue paper-thin tubing, and a stamped sheet metal pocket clip formed under enough pressure to bend it but not enough to unsharpen the edges. These amateurishly-manufactured, third-world Zebras usually have a Japanese-made cartridge inside, and that always makes me curious about what kinds of writing instruments they might be making and selling in their home market, or in Europe. The two Zebra mechanical pencils that I own were made in Japan and I am generally pleased with them even though they are pretty cheap. At least they are mechanically stable, and they have spring-loaded pocket clips, which is a big "thing" in Japan, but usually seen only at much higher price points.
I took the zebra telescopic refill out but can't get the new one in. Help.
You kind of need to feel your way around. There's a small hole in the middle where it slots in. Have you had any luck with that? Also, exactly which version of the Zebra pen do you have. There's one I have that can take a normal D1 refill, but it won't work for any of the others.
I did the same thing. did you ever figure out how to put in a new refill?
The stylus nub is for use as a stylus on the touch screens of phones and tablets.
Your hand movements are very spastic, nervous, jittery, confusing. You flop them and the product around and it affects clear information. In the dialogue, you switch between B, C and A (and sometimes D) so the viewer doesn't know which pen you are commenting on. Otherwise, a nice video.