What Pen Have You Converted To An Eyedropper?
List your eyedropper pens. And any results, good or bad.
What Pen Have You Converted To An Eyedropper?
List your eyedropper pens. And any results, good or bad.
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I am but a simple caveman.
Not a one. I don't need the extra ink capacity and am leery of the burping potential.
penwash (January 12th, 2016)
Not a single one. Cannot imagine wanting an eydropper.
Austin_Malone (July 17th, 2014), penwash (January 12th, 2016)
I converted an old Sheaffer school pen. It leaked a little bit but I used the watery silicone grease in the TWSBI maintenance package. I just got some of the gel looking stuff and I am hoping that will work better.
sheaffer school pen by IvanRomero, on Flickr
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I had 5 or 6 of the School Pens laying around from a mass purchase I made several years back. I applied a #5 O-ring and greased the threads. It's been writing along happily, filled with Eel Blue. I would suggest dropping into Ace or other hardware place and getting actual silicone grease. A little tub will last you a lifetime and only run about five bucks.
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KrazyIvan (May 24th, 2013)
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None at all, so far, but never say never, I suppose. What puts me off more than anything is having 3ml+ of staining potential being held in a barrel via slippery grease trapped in the threads. A lot of pens have really unhelpful threads for this kind of thing too; screw a barrel halfway onto a Parker Frontier for example, then give it a slight push and pull. Those threads were never meant to get a joint ink tight.
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I converted a Jinhao 159 to eye dropper... using acrylic medium to line the inside of the barrel (its aluminum), gasket and silicon grease. Its working so far. Will post a video at some point when I have more time on Youtube to show how its done.
The basic mechanics are as follows:
Step 1) you take the barrel and wipe the inside clean with rubbing alcohol to remove any grease and dirt... let dry
Step 2)Pour acrylic medium into the barrel and tap it a bit to remove any bubbles
Step 3)Let it sit for 5 mins....
Step 4)pour out the excess.... as much as possible so only a thin coating remains inside....
Step 5) take a wet Q-tip and wipe off the threads....then...
Step 6)take a hair drier and gently dry the acrylic medium... it will go from white to clear when dry....
Step 7) repeat steps 2 through 6
Step 8) grease threads add gasket
Step 9) ink up
step 10) scribble away...
I realize I'm responding to a post from 2013.
But I've been thinking along the same line to convert vintage pens with broken lever mechanism into ED.
Anyone know what Adhizen meant by "acrylic medium" ?
What kind of acrylic is that? Is it liquid at room temperature?
Or Adhizen, if you're still hanging out here
The biggest problem with your plan (well, I guess it's a toss-up with trying to fill an entire lever hole in the barrel) is that few vintage lever pens have a threaded section. Most all of them are friction fit, and usually put in place with a little shellac. How would you propose dealing with this (i.e. how are you going to repeatedly remove the section to fill the pen barrel with ink)?
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Good point.
I'm not there yet. This is just an idea.
Right now I'm still trying to pull out my first section successfully out of a vintage pen.
Is a rubber-padded plier absolutely necessary? And how long do I have to heat it?
I've tried hair-drier at High settings for up to 3 minutes, and still nothing budges.
penwash (November 9th, 2015)
I haven't "converted" any but have used those that are either cart or eye dropper with just an addition of silicon grease and/or o-ring....Recife Crystal, Stipula Passporto, DaniTrio (Huge) urushi, and a very pretty maki-e lacquer. Only the 2 Dani's have a shut-off. I do like the ink capacity...but also find I waste a lot of ink when I get bored and want to change color!
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A long time ago, a small carmine red Sheaffer vac-filler. I took out the guts of the vac filler, sealed the blind cap to the barrel, and used silicon on threads that ARE meant to be sealed. It worked perfectly.... somewhat to my surprise.
Kaweco Sport Classic, worked well but ink did stain between the nib collar and clear section plastic over time.
Platinum Preppy for my BSB pen, still works well but I'm always a little leary of the oring + silicon grease. Several times I've caught myself unscrewing the barrel instead of just slipping off the cap.
Edison Nouveau Premiere, just to test it out. Worked just fine but I prefer it as a cc filler so that was a one time thing.
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+1 on the Kaweco sport - I'd all but forgotten about it. Didn't continue with it mainly because I didn't like the sport well enough to use that much ink. Now, with a luscious nib, that would be different.
Franklin-Christoph Model 66. No problems
Platinum Preppy, the result is good if you seal it probably.
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