How do I use a lever filler? [Article]
With a lever filler, opening the lever completely compresses the ink sac, by means of a flat pressure bar operated by the end of the lever. To fill you simply open the lever
- Fountain Pen: Writing With Style [Article]
If you look around your entourage, you will see the eternal gadget freak boasting about the latest cell phone or portable computer he just purchased. There's one in every office, a
- What type of filler or converter cartridge? [Article]
With modern pens, the cartridge filler is practically universal. Strictly known as a cartridge/converter filler and often abbreviated to "CC filler", these allow bottle filli
- What is button filler? [Article]
The button filler has a small button (brass or aluminium or occasionally plastic) on the end of the barrel under a small "blind cap". Pressing the button compresses the ink s
- What is a aerometric filler? [Article]
These are fitted to most of the 1950s Parker models. To fill you unscrew the barrel, dip the nib in ink then press the pressure bar fully with your thumb or thumb nail.
- What is a Parker Vacumatic (lock-down) filler? [Article]
The lock-down filler was the first of the vacumatic types. A small blind cap covers a metal plunger, with a brass top. A small twist to the left will release the plunger, whi
- What is a Parker Vacumatic (plastic) filler? [Article]
The later "speedline" vacumatic has a plastic plunger under a much bigger blind cap and it no longer locks down. To fill, remove the blind cap, immerse the nib in ink and pum
- What is a Sheaffer Touchdown filler? [Article]
...is compressed by air pressure. To fill, unscrew the knob on the end of the barrel and pull out the filler tube - it comes ou
- How do I use a Sheaffer Snorkel filler? [Article]
The Snorkel filler is a further development on the touchdown but is different in that it is a "clean filling" pen. To fill, unscrew the knob on the end of the barrel, keeping
- What is a swan leverless filler? [Article]
This is another way to compress a rubber ink sac. There is a small knob on the end of the barrel, which turns a wedge-shaped metal bar inside the barrel. As you rotate
- How do I use a "Vacuum" Piston filler? [Article]
Examples include 1940s Sheaffer models and many Onoto pens. The piston mechanism varies, but all fill on the DOWN stroke by causing a slight vacuum behind the piston, which i
- How do I use a twist piston filler? [Article]
Examples include Pelikan, Mont Blanc and other German pens among others. Unscrewing a knob on the end of the pen pushes a piston down the pen barrel. Screwing the knob
- What is a CC filler? And how do I use it? [Article]
Cartridge / Converter fillers are more or less universal these days and many people are content to use ink cartridges, which simply push in. If you are using the converter, t
