Thursday, 24 June 2021

Research Card 9

 How A Pencil Is Made

Step 1: Wood is cut into slats that are called pencil stock

Step 2: There is then a wax and also stain that are put on while the slats are put under a cutting wheel

Step 3: In the slat, the grooves are filled with a glue ready for the lead

Step 4: They then create the lead by putting together graphite and clay and putting it in an oven to bake at around 815 degrees

Step 5: When the lead is put in, another slat of wood is plopped on top

Step 6: A Special Mechanism squeezes the wooden slats until the glue dries

Step 7: It's then cut into pencils

Step 8: The pencils are coloured by a lacquering head

Step 9: The eraser at the top is added from a assembley machine

Step 10: Some pencils are imprinted with company logos, but after that you have your very own pencil

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