Editing The Pen Addict 213/transcript (section)

== Uni Sino ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's crazy, crazy fine and sharp. And it writes so dry. And it's kind of a mess. So that one surprised me. Both of those Hitec Cs surprised me. I thought one of the 0.4s, the 0.4 black, would be in that top five list there, as opposed to the 5 and the 2.5. So the next one I can kind of see, it's back to the Uniball Sino 151 DX in 0.28 black. It's a much better writing pen than the 0.25 Hitec C, probably than the 0.3 Hitec C. The line's a little bit wider. The output's a little bit wider. Where you can actually, that's one of those pens where someone branches out, says, let me try the 0.28 and says, oh, it's actually pretty good. I can use this pen where the 0.25 Hitec C I hardly think is usable. You have to have a very specific situation to use that. So I prefer the 0.38 DX. The 0.28 is really good for a 0.28 tip. The only other one that compares to that is the 0.3 Pentel Sleechy, which I think is a pretty good pen. It's just kind of got too narrow of a barrel. So I would use the DX way more than that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Was it the 0.28 Sino that got you into all of this?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The 0.38 at the time was called the RT. Right. So Uni Sino RT 0.38.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So it was the 0.38.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And then the next pen I bought was the 0.18 Uni. I think it was the Sino Bit, which they don't make anymore. It was a 0.18 liquid ink pen. 0.18. Yeah. But it would being a liquid ink. The line didn't retain that fineness that you'd get even out of like a 0.3 gel pen. Because the ink spreads a little bit more. So they could actually do that with a 0.18. But it was stupid. The 0.18 bit was the one that they always showed writing on a grain of rice. Like you remember those pictures? They used to go around like, hey, the pen that can write on a grain of rice. It was the bit. And they don't make that one anymore. Because that pen would clog so much the way that tip was designed. It was actually a pretty bad pen. But it was kind of a cool concept. So it's interesting to look at these lists that aren't mine. And just kind of what's popular. So the ballpoints are interesting. In that it's kind of what I expected. Four of the top five disposable ballpoints are Jetstreams. The number one is surprising. The number one is the 0.38. Which I would never recommend to anybody. That's like the writing with the 0.28, 0.25 high tech C. I would think the Uniball Jetstream 0.7 is the sweet spot for a Jetstream. It's the right amount of everything. Right amount of fineness, smoothness, cleanness. It should really, really be number one. And actually their orange body. One that ranks really high. There's no surprise why. Because it's orange. And orange is the best color. So that one's actually number four on the list. So it goes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's good looking though.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I have one of those. They're great. And it's good because they're a bunch of these pens. They're refillable. So I just have the one barrel and have extra refills if I need them. So 0.38 comes in at one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's a little cheap though. Like why is that a problem? Like the refilling? I don't know. It's not. Okay. I mean how much are the refills? Like a dollar. $1.25. Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean for the orange series. For the rubber body series it's worth getting the refill. For the other ones it's really not.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Yeah, no, I completely agree.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So 0.38 is the top seller. 0.5 is the second best seller. 0.7 is the fourth best seller. And that's in the rubber body. And then 0.7 back to one of the standards is number five.