Help please,

I got hold of a late 1960/1970 Black White Dot Ballpen with Chrome trim for a friend.

Do the modern refils fit as they don'y look the same as the one in it?

Thanks Jim

If you don't get an asnwer here, call Sam or Frank at Pendemonium. They know more about Sheaffer pens than anyone I know. They used to sell a widget to convert the older pens to a new style refill. I don't know if it's still available. Their website is www.pendemonium.com.

To the best of my knowledge, only the earliest Sheaffer ballpoints (the Fineline and Stratowriter, for example) require the little brass widget that Pendemonium sells. That's because the pre-1955 pens used a screw-in refill.

I have a late-1940s Fineline with the magic widget, and the current refills work fine as long as you remember to put a spring in the bottom of the barrel. (cheapie clickable ball points are great donors for this).

Any Sheaffer ballpoint made after the mid-to-late 1950s will accept the modern refills. Your pen sounds like it falls into that category.

Sheaffer and Parker deserve a lot of credit for maintaining backward compatibility with their ballpoint and ink cartridge pens for the last 50 years, although I wish Sheaffer offered a gel refill like Parker does.

Thanks for the advice folks,

I will get a new current refill and give it a try, the plastic on the top looks different, but the length is idendical, which is the key metric.

I agree about the Gel refills, if I have to use a ballpoint, that makes it more acceptable and they fit all my old Parker BPs!

Regards & Thanks,

Jim