Better cartridge converter for Kaigelus?

[Saintpaulia]

I guess your idea never occurred to me due to my Scottish sense of frugality. Buying an entirely new pen of a model I already have, just in order to get another converter, just does not fit in my way of living. Besides, I was just as much interested in this question from a purely research orientation as I was in getting a new converter. There seemed to me to be a kind of disjunct here. Most fountain pens' converters are easily discovered and bought. Wheareas these Chinese pens are not. That should not be. There should be a source for replacement Chinese pen converters. Or so my mind says.

Now when Todd Nussbaum sent me a replacement converter for my Kaigelu, as I've mentioned, it did not fit. So even though some States-side businesses have some Chinese pen converters they are not yet standardized and hence one can get the wrong one as often as not. I think I may have to write an email to one of the Chinese pen dealers on eBay that I have had fairly successful communications with, in English and ask her.

[Jon Szanto]

While I may agree with you in principle (on frugality), the near "give-it-away" prices on many of the Chinese pens makes our old models of thinking somewhat beside the point. I know for a fact that most convertors for many other brands cost nearly that much (plus shipping), so while you may think it odd, maybe it is time to think a little past your old paradigm.

"Buy a convertor, and we'll throw in a pen!"

[Saintpaulia]

While I may agree with you in principle (on frugality), the near "give-it-away" prices on many of the Chinese pens makes our old models of thinking somewhat beside the point. I know for a fact that most convertors for many other brands cost nearly that much (plus shipping), so while you may think it odd, maybe it is time to think a little past your old paradigm.

"Buy a convertor, and we'll throw in a pen!"

Good saying! Oh I do understand. And I wasn't saying that I wouldn't do this; only why I hadn't.

[Saintpaulia]

OK. I did bid on and then won a Kaigelu 356 for a total cost of $5.49. That's a converter price basically. And I am assuming that the converter that comes with the 356 will also fit the 357. If anyone knows to the contrary I'd like to have that info. By the way I happen to like the pen anyway. It's a sort of champagne gold.