modern sheaffer twist converter - one problem you should know.

The modern sheaffer converter, the twist version, has a problem which even some sheaffer sales personnels do not know. 2 words, they break. When they break, the converter will leak ink into the pen body and most notably turn with the piston when you twist the piston while it is inserted into the pen. It is not tight in the sheaffer pen.

Frequency of that happening ? i have a broken one, and i have already found 4 broken ones in new sheaffer pens sold over the sheaffer counters. I conclude it is quite high.

And i had thought a lot of people knew about this. Apparently not. And therefore this post.

How then do you detect it? First, twist the piston while the converter is inserted into the pen. if the converter twists, do a visual check, the confirmatory one as shown below;

This is broken converter. Notice the break line on the inner and second ring in black? that means it will not be tight.

This is a working converter. the 3 rings, the inner black ring, the middle black ring, and the outer metallic ring are complete. this is a working converter which will sit tightly in the pen and not leak.

Pilot kakuno - customs. Universe, pure and bronze edition.

Pilot kakuno - customs. Universe, pure and bronze edition. Made quite some time back, now playing around with the colors matching...

The Slim : Version 1

I can finally close the chapter for this pen! a metallic body, with a colorful and air tight cap! took me a long while to find that right cap to lego every thing together (and getting scorn at by Tony for being dull because it is always lying there all this while). it does not take a genius to realize, just needed that touch from The Creator above. I now prove to myself that I am stupid. :p

Nothing fanciful, all parts are not created nor bought. Marrying them together creates a pen of its kind. very light weight, durable due to its metallic body. the details are in the pictures.

Now to probably more with a green cap, a red cap, a pink cap...wait, a kakuno family?! No.......

cap: as shown.
nib, feed and holder: daiso $2 pen.
body: a not needed body part from a cerruti pen.
uses a china international cartridge converter or those standard cartridge.

 

When the direction is right, the flow cannot be stop. So I have made one pen using a daiso pen parts. I can also make another one using the daiso sold platinum rivere pen too! And they look different.

I am seriously running out of parts...