Pentel Tradio EnerGel Combo Gel Ink Pen - Nature Matte Body - 0.7 mm - Gray Body - Black Ink

The Tradio Energel is simply a fantastic pen! Great balance and grip area, and with a 0.5mm refill installed in place of the standard 0.7mm refill, it puts down a perfect line width of extremely smooth, fast drying ink. Just great!

This is a great pen!!! It is very smooth writing and feel good in your hand.

We learned that the spring in the body CAN be removed by hitting the body lightly against your hand until the spring falls out, thereby allowing you to use the standard Tradio refill.

I love the EnerGel pens. The Tradio was a little bit disappointing for two reasons:
(1) The grip is solid plastic (it looks like the very nice rubber grip from the disposable capped EnerGel pens, but it isn't, it's solid plastic).
(2) The cap snaps in place to close the pen, but when open it just slides over the end of the pen without snapping, and it works itself loose within a minute or two no matter how hard I slide it on.
I expected a lot more from the EnerGel series that I like so much.

Don't know how to edit my previous review.

I finally got the pen back to writing. I did the lighter under the pen tip trick. I just used a lighter to quickly warm the tip and squiggled on some paper. Warmed it a couple times for less than a sec. Finally works now! Good thing didn't wanna toss a damn pricey pen for me.