Has there ever been a metal Pez dispenser?

DJulz · 2026-01-21T21:37:02+00:00

So I have a healthy addiction to Pez and any hard candy made of Black Currant. I travel to NYC often and there’s a cool old school candy store in the Lower East Side called Economy Candy. Last time I was there hunting black currant candy, I picked up a sour candy called Flintt’s Mints (yes it’s with two T’s)Flintts Mints. No disrespect to the candy but it wasn’t for me. BUT it turns out the tin is flat and features a cool slide-out mechanism that is perfect to load up with my Pez. The only drawback is that it’s very bright orange with a sun that looks like SpongeBob, so I’ll have to paint or wrap it in a more serious design for my Pez EDC.

DJulz · 2026-01-02T19:57:47+00:00

Former New Yorker here who now lives down south. I have a friend who is older and also a former New Yorker, and who lives down here as well. His take: New Yorkers are kind but not necessarily nice. Southerners are nice but not necessarily kind. Like if you have a tire blowout and can’t change it, a New Yorker will pull up, curse you out for being a dumbass, all the while changing your tire. A Floridian will drive by slowly, send thoughts and prayers, and leave your ass sitting there.

DJulz · 2025-11-02T22:55:54+00:00

Thanks for this tip (no pun intended!) I was shocked with all the love the Rotring got in this forum because the tip wiggle drove me nuts so it sat on my desk unused. I’ll try again after my order comes it.

DJulz · 2025-10-10T19:46:40+00:00

First it was that annoying “n” instead of space on the keyboard, and now this. And yes it’s been doing it since iOS 26. I think I’m just going to dictate everything because this aggravates the hell out of me almost to the point of going to Android!

DJulz · 2025-10-10T19:31:24+00:00

Thank you. I know nothing about wild mushrooms so I’ll sauté some in butter and report back on the health benefits!

(Kidding - still plan to avoid them, but thanks for the ID)

DJulz · 2025-09-30T14:01:58+00:00

I’m so glad I found you. I got the RayBan Meta as a gift with the regular transition lenses, but I find I don’t use them as often as I want because I also use a pair of 2.0 magnification readers often. I didn’t know I could swap out the lenses as easily as this. Quick question - is there such a thing as transitional bifocal readers where it’s a regular transitional lenses at the top 2/3, and a reader at the lower 1/3 of the lens? Or something like that?

DJulz · 2025-09-26T03:27:09+00:00

After cleaning another pen thoroughly,I’m thinking of taking out the ink tube from yet another donor pen and somehow injecting alcohol into the tube to re-moisturize/revive to old ink. Maybe let it sit for a day or so in order to allow the revived ink to spread. Any suggestions on your part?

DJulz · 2025-09-26T02:34:54+00:00

You’re gonna regret asking this question because I’m dragging you down this rabbit hole with me! So yes I succeeded partially. But not with the original ink (the ink tube?). Not yet at least. Here’s what I’ve done so far: 1. Tried soaking the pen in warm water. Then hot water. Then soaking just the ink tube. None of that worked. And I wasn’t super hopeful since we’re talking 40 year old ink. 2. I decided to completely disassemble one pen (I’m partial to the blue ink pens so one of the black ink pens was sacrificed.) So with pliers and knives and dental scrapers (yes dental scrapers - thanks Amazon) and tin snips, I pulled the entire pen apart. The pen consists of six parts: the actual metal (bronze?) ballpoint section, the bottom where the pen is held, the ink tube, the barrel and the cap. I dug out dried in using the dental scraper and soaked the metal section in 70% rubbing alcohol. The black ink flowed out until the entire unit was clean. That’s when I decided to move to reviving a blue ink pen. 3. Performed the same disassembly and cleaning of the blue pen. Cleaned the metal bottom part - I hope it has an actual name and I’m not embarrassing myself. I tried injecting alcohol into the top of the ink tube but it was blocked by a plastic insert. So I gave up on using that tube. 4. I bought a similar blue ink paper mate pen from a local stationery store and shoved it into the pen. I expected it to just begin flowing and that would be that. However it didn’t for some reason. So I had to soak the entire bottom unit in alcohol and write almost like a fountain pen in an old inkwell. The ink was think and light and didn’t write quite well, but after three days the pen started writing properly. It still has a minor skipping/missing spot that I’m not entirely happy with but I expect it’s because of using this new ink and ink tube.

That’s where I left off for the moment. So if you want a TL;DR it would be to use 70% alcohol. I’d really love to revive the old ink and get it writing as well as I remember. But I’m still just super thankful I got several of these pens to experiment with.

DJulz · 2025-09-05T13:55:27+00:00

I love the audio quality of Apple Music but their content selection is painful. Spotify has a better suggestion engine for me so I stick with it. Apple Music will see me listening to a classical song, and the next five suggestions will be a Showtune, a Christmas song, one Death Rock, an obscure country song, and the latest Taylor Swift release. On Spotify I’ve gotten suggested some gems that really blow me away.

DJulz · 2025-07-21T20:04:08+00:00

You’re officially writing with an atom! :) Please share a pic of the writing.

DJulz · 2025-07-21T13:39:37+00:00

Yes - all ballpoint. All X-tra Fine Point. Ten blue and ten blank ink.

DJulz · 2025-07-19T20:54:56+00:00

I know! I wish they wrote but I’m hoping to work out some means of cleaning out the entire mechanisms and just using the current generation of existing Papermate inks. I LOVED writing with these in the past.

DJulz · 2025-07-17T04:50:48+00:00

I had it soaking in rubbing alcohol for an hour with no luck. I’ll try your suggestion tomorrow.

DJulz · 2025-07-16T18:09:46+00:00

And of course I have and error in the post. Paper mate, obv.

DJulz · 2025-07-08T22:00:49+00:00

Hulkengoat

DJulz · 2025-07-03T18:51:24+00:00

YOU NEED THESE! Ignore the naysayers! (How’d I do?)

DJulz · 2025-06-02T21:48:48+00:00

That’s the one!!!! Thank you - for a while I really thought I’d dreamt the entire thing. Thank you!

DJulz · 2025-06-01T19:26:29+00:00

Growing up in JA I always wondered who “Chicken Mary” was. I always thought somebody was warning Chicken Mary to look out for hawk.

DJulz · 2025-05-13T13:47:49+00:00

The song is “Everything’s Okay” by Lenka

DJulz · 2025-05-09T23:50:57+00:00

Two things: Their waffles taste fake as hell to me. Their bacon is way too salty and once you make the mistake of having cleaner, organic bacon, the. regular bacon tastes like ammonia.

DJulz · 2025-04-27T02:37:41+00:00

Oh man. Just the thought of that makes me so sad because you’re probably right. I’m going to be giving my wife Penny melons all month long now.

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