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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Mike Dunbar:
Because that's the color of the plastic sleeve on my Pentel .09 mechanical pencil, of course. It's my favorite pencil.

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I thought you meant purple LEAD! I've seen red, I've seen blue, but not purple, haha. That would certainly be odd. I thought maybe you have some secret lead that glows in the dark or something.

BTW, I didn't know they made .9mm lead. I'll have to check that out. I have always used .5mm but recently, found a .7mm among my brother's stuff and liked it for writing charts because it makes a much wider line. A .9mm would be even bigger! (Easier to read... and I don't like having to sharpen regular pencils. Like you, I like mechanical pencils.)