penwash
December 6th, 2017, 08:43 AM
Got this with a bunch of other pens from Japan, and the first think I thought was, what a waste of a good Sterling Silver body. So I examined the construction of this pen.
It has no metal section like a typical rollerball, rather it has a long section (sturdy plastic) that ends in a rollerball. Then the section just screw into the metal barrel and continues into a plastic ink container that looks like a permanently attached long ink cartridge.
This whole plastic section-cartridge assembly has a code printed on it Pentel REM6 JAPAN. So I assume I can buy another one as a refill. So I am not permanently converting this pen, just this one "cartridge" (for the lack of a better word).
I remove the rollerball tip and fish out the fiber-like inside that contains the ink. After the cartridge is clean and free of fibers, I'm now at the point where I could just try to fit a nib and feed into the "section", or find a small section that would fit into the opening.
Finding a feed that fits, and an FPR nib, I managed to find a good snug fit without additional section:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4568/24985809128_051a275b6a_c.jpg
I'll fill this with ink and see how it goes. If this writes well, we'll deal with the refilling strategy later (part two of this project).
It has no metal section like a typical rollerball, rather it has a long section (sturdy plastic) that ends in a rollerball. Then the section just screw into the metal barrel and continues into a plastic ink container that looks like a permanently attached long ink cartridge.
This whole plastic section-cartridge assembly has a code printed on it Pentel REM6 JAPAN. So I assume I can buy another one as a refill. So I am not permanently converting this pen, just this one "cartridge" (for the lack of a better word).
I remove the rollerball tip and fish out the fiber-like inside that contains the ink. After the cartridge is clean and free of fibers, I'm now at the point where I could just try to fit a nib and feed into the "section", or find a small section that would fit into the opening.
Finding a feed that fits, and an FPR nib, I managed to find a good snug fit without additional section:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4568/24985809128_051a275b6a_c.jpg
I'll fill this with ink and see how it goes. If this writes well, we'll deal with the refilling strategy later (part two of this project).