2mm Leads

       As the pencil ones, the leads for the Lead Holders also use the graphite scale for degrees, but with not so much values in it. As an example one manufacturer produces 19 ranges for wood cased pencils and only 7 for 2mm leads.

Individual 2mm leads

 

Leads are sold individually, on sets of 2, or packs of 12, and have sizes from 130mm to 90mm.  

 

Examples of packs of 12 2mm leads

       STAEDTLER^® Mars^® carbon Leads packs include a colour end cap to fit on the holder for easy lead degree identification. and a place, in the case. to put the original chrome cap, while using the provided colored one.

These leads degrees are  4B - 2B - B - HB - H - 2H - 4H

 

       As it is difficult to me to get good leads for drawing locally, I have used a procedure to get leads easily. If I have access to good drawing wood cased pencils, then I already have graphite leads available, i just have to take off the wood case. It also enable me to get a wider range of degrees to work with using lead holders, How to get the lead out of the pencil with a procedure i followed when I was in need of a lead on a Sunday afternoon and all stores were closed, will be described in a later article.

       These leads are bigger than the size that the lead holders can manage, so i break them in two, use one in the lead holder, and the other half I tag it, so i can recognize it easily later, and save them, carefully with others half leads i already have.

 

 Spare Leads of several grades

     Tip: Check the lead size of the pencil, before you buy it, some of the more softer pencils, from some manufacturers, have a lead size bigger than 2mm and they won't fit on the lead holder, this is specially evident in the 6B to 9B range 

Details view of spare leads, tagged for easy degree identification

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