Current vacuum fillers?

[Gulfcoast]

The Asvine V169 pens are traditional vac fillers. I have not used one, but for $40.00 USD on Amazon, I might take a shot.

I have had a Vac 700 crack through the section, but not a recent production pen.

[catbert]

PenBBS 456 and 268 are worth a look.

[karmachanic]

WS 601

[Jon Szanto]

The Asvine V169 pens are traditional vac fillers. I have not used one, but for $40.00 USD on Amazon, I might take a shot.

I'm a longtime user of Sheaffer vacs, and nothing new has surpassed them, at least in panache and general operation. That said, I try not to have my head stuck in the sand, so I've kept tabs on developments, up to and including the above-mentioned PenBBS models. However, I recently tried two models of the Asvine pens (what an unfortunate brand name), one of which is the V126 vac filler. This model is very clearly a visual model on the Pilot 823, and at the moment only comes in three finishes; I chose a somewhat unique one, a matte-finish transparent model.

I will say up-front that I tried these pens because they were the only new Chinese fountain pens that had Medium nibs listed; at the time, I also was unaware that this is the company that had actually been manufacturing pens for both PenBBS and Hong Dian. Both the V126 and P20, which is a piston-filler that very, very closely mimics the Leonargo MZ pens, are made to a remarkably high standard of quality. I don't even have to work hard to 'keep an open mind' when examining them - fit and finish, quality control, everything about these pens is very well done. I can't remember any pen with smoother barrel threads, and all 4 nibs I've gotten have been not just adequate, but very good. At under $30 on eBay, it is just silly how good of a fountain pen experience one can have. I am going to carry a set of these, inked up, to any pen meetups in the months ahead, to allow new users to consider spending money wisely.

If the world were perfect, they would wrap this all up in new designs and makes a completely unique statement, something PenBBS did. I won't give up my Leonardos and replace them with these. Still, the last decade has brought us remarkable writing instruments at all levels of purchase, and these pens show that a small investment can yield a pen that not only performs well, but gives every indication that it will do so for years to come.

[Chip]

Which fills when a vacuum is created inside by the action of the plunger tube.

Modern fillers use a threaded plastic rod to create— guess what?— a vacuum.

[Jon Szanto]

Which fills when a vacuum is created inside by the action of the plunger tube.

Modern fillers use a threaded plastic rod to create— guess what?— a vacuum.

I'm a little unclear if this a question or not, but of the two models I mentioned, the V126 is a vacuum-fill pen, easily seen in action in the clear version below. Note that, like the Pilot 823, the pen incorporates an ink stopper to prevent leaking; for extended writing sessions, you back the blinc cap off a few turns to allow ink to flow into the section. The P20, shown second, is a piston model; while the versions available are in modern, colored acrylics, you *can* see the piston in some of them. Also notable in this pen is the ink window incorporated into the barrel.

The two model lines are different in design and functionality.

[Doctox]

If you don't mind SLIGHTLY vintage, a few years back Conklin made a LE Nozac Word Gauge piston filler. It works just like the Pilot 823, but was bigger and more colorful, and the nib was 18K. I don't know how easy it is to find one for sale, though.
If you like a fine - XF nib, I have a 1940s Sheaffer that is in absolutely pristine condition, probably never used, slurps up water like camel, in a set with a pencil, black with clear stripes for ink view.
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[dneal]

Which fills when a vacuum is created inside by the action of the plunger tube.

Modern fillers use a threaded plastic rod to create— guess what?— a vacuum.

I'm a little unclear if this a question or not, but of the two models I mentioned...]

I'm with you.

Every self-filler uses a vacuum. The other option is eyedropper, if you're wanting to get ink in a tube; but I suppose you could submerge in some Archimedean fashion as well. That seems unnecessarily messy though...

The point isn't that they all use a variation of a vacuum principle. The point (and a large portion of the hobby) is the plethora of ways people figured out how to make one to suck ink in a pen - largely to avoid others' patents.

Dear god, look at all the ways you can compress a rubber sac and make a vacuum.

Yeah, that long stroke plunger (in all its variations) is cool.

[Herry]

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[tde44]

I have a Nahvalur Original Plus that I like, mine is the Matira White.

[Rin Tin Pen]

Pineider has a new vac filler. Approx. $200, but someone said that Pineider was going to implement a price increase for their pens on July 1, 2023.
Review: Inkquiring Minds, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-n1TijvxR4.

[drlizdub]

Like mentioned above, the Pilot 823 is a great option. I purchased a demonstrator version from Japan with a Coarse nib and it’s awesome. I also like the black / demo Nahvalur Original Plus I purchased from Atlas Stationery. Good luck with your purchase!