/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Yes hello I need help please.
After dropping a mechanical pencil (like pic related), the small tube that holds the end of the lead at the tip has bent -- after bending it back I discovered that the diameter has been slightly reduced at the end so that the pencil lead no longer travels through it smoothly. It gets stuck and breaks off.

How can I fix this? My only idea is hammering a sewing needle or equivalent through it, but that's tedious and error-prone, the needles are too long and too flexible to carry the energy through.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.