One of my favorite pens is a Montblanc 320. It's a cartridge/converter filler. It occurred to me that in addition to how wonderful it writes, it is marvelously simple: it has no moving parts. In other words, no levers to break, ink sacs to dissolve, piston seals to leak, or snorkels to ... whatever snorks do when they go belly up!
Cleaning my 320 is as easy as removing the cartridge, taking in a gulp of water, and blowing it through the section and nib (taking care, of course, not to have recently eaten popcorn or crackers).
In addition to filling cartridges by syringe, I occasionally use a converter, which if and when it fails costs me less than $10 to replace rather than a $50-plus repair.
It seems to me that some FP users denigrate c/c fillers as being inferior pens. I say three cheers for a FP with no moving parts!
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