Need Help Finding The Thinnest/smallest Vacuum Filler Available.

[Brontosaurus Pluto]

Hello,

 

I am curious about what the thinnest/smallest vacuum filler available. How thin can the get and how small can they get? Are there size restrictions on them?

 

Thanks

 

Pace

[balson]

I have a hard time picturing one of less than two inches long, but its always amazing the work a skilled craftsman can make. my best guess for the smallest vacuum filler would be the sheaffer tuckaway but i am not well versed in modern pens.

[NinthSphere]

I have a hard time picturing one of less than two inches long, but its always amazing the work a skilled craftsman can make. my best guess for the smallest vacuum filler would be the sheaffer tuckaway but i am not well versed in modern pens.

 

First thing I thought of was the tuckaways.

[rochester21]

Sheaffer Balance Miss Universe- cutest pen ever, uses vac-fill and it`s small and thin(0.9 cm wide, 11.5 cm long capped).

Edited February 20, 2015 by rochester21

[sombrueil]

The Parker Vac Debutante is pretty darn small.

[KBeezie]

First thing I thought of was the tuckaways.

Just a note, not all Tuckys are vac-fill, some are touchdown fillers (which are not vacuum fillers)

 

In terms of how big it is capped, it's the first one in the tray shown here (Tuckaway Valiant, Vac-fill, ~ 1945-47) with a 14K Medium triumph nib.

 

http://i.imgur.com/x0Ic0zC.jpg

 

http://static.karlblessing.com/pens/sheaffer/tuckaway/gold_striated_valiant/uncapped.jpg

 

Don't know about the Parker Vacumatics, but I have a gold-pearled vacumatic slender coming.

 

But this is the 1940 Vacumatic I already have (shown in the tray above 4th from the left.

 

http://static.karlblessing.com/pens/parker/vacumatic/uncapped.jpg

 

Maybe just a 'tiny' bit thicker than the Pelikan M250. A little thinner than a Lamy 2000, close to same thickness as a Platinum Century 3776. But pretty much shorter than those two. But it holds a decent 1.9 to 2.0 ml of ink.

 

The thinnest pen I have that's not a cartridge/converter or a vac is that Montblanc 225 at the very end which is a piston filler holding around 1.4ml.

Edited February 21, 2015 by KBeezie

[Garageboy]

Sheaffer Miss Universe is the tiniest - about the size of my ring finger and keeps the Balance proportions