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This will sound crazy, but I've done it and it works pretty well. They make all kinds of cheap plastic mechanical pencils these days. They also make leadholders, same idea but MUCH larger pencil leads. You could haul one or two of these along. Alternatively, in a few more weeks, it will be back-to-school time and every store in the country will be selling those cheap plastic schoolboy pencil sharpeners. Buy one of those and affix it with some cheap adhesive to your slate. (Use something cheap, that you can break later, so when the blade rusts to powder, you can break the old sharpener off and throw it away.) >Yep, pencils are cheap and expendable but one of the aggravation of >diving is the broken lead just when you are about to jot down something >you won't remember later. Sharpening them underwater with a knife is >sometimes frustrating (Iusually break the lead several times). This is >not a total solution but helps: By sharpening the pencil with a very >steep angle there is more wood to suport the lead (simple huh?). > >Sam Frushour > >On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, J Shepherd wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 96 13:55:46 BST >> From: J Shepherd <jms@ta*.ed*.ac*.uk*> >> To: "Jeffrey B. Bentley" <ppfkjhb@sn*.be*.co*> >> Cc: techdiver@terra.net >> Subject: RE: Pencils? >> >> >> Buy a big box of pencils and cut them all into three. Sharpen >> and put in a handful in your dry kit. Hey presto, pencils whenever you >> need thwm - just take a new one on each dive. Heck, let's be Tech., take >> two. No, do it right, take a long one and short one. Use the long one, >> but be prepared to give it to your buddy and keep the short one round >> your neck. >> >> Horgarth applies, I feel; the simplest is the best. Just >> recognise that a pencil a dive is less then the gas your paying ofr and >> get plenty in stock. >> >> (Sudden attack of *what* are we talking about?) >> >> Jason
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