Only take certain pens out of the house, the Pilot 78G is one that often goes to class, in a pouch. Last week took one to town while shopping and stuck in my jean pocket. Reached for the van keys and out flipped the pen on to the cement and rolled under a car. Once home started to unscrew the cap and heard, "slide, clunk, slide, clunk. Headed for the sink. Opened up, ink everywhere, Nib OK, but the Aero filler... I always thought was permanent... was the slide clunker.

Seems to work ok since I put back together, doesn't look broken. If it is removable, what converter/cartridge might work? Have another 78G that takes a international convert/cart. This one won't.

Yes, the filler in the 78G is actually a squeeze converter -- the pen takes Pilot cartridges & converters.

Was that pen modified by someone? Pilot cartridges aren't made to the "international" standard.

-- Brian
(P.S. "Olympic Peninsula"? Do you attend Evergreen?)

AIR, yes it has a converter, and it does take the Pilot cartridges. The Pilot cartriges are of a proprietary design and unique (as far as I know) to Pilot/Namicki.

The Pilot cartridge design and specification is NOTHING like the international cartridge.

Hope this clears it all up.

Several months ago, someone on the forum ... I'm terrible with names... took a trip to Europe, got a bunch of these intr cartridge Pilots and sold them in the Marketplace. I got a couple. Also have several others from isellpens and hisnibs. Now that I look at the back of the nibs, the ones from isellpens and hisnibs are greyish in color and the "intr cartridge" ones are black. Looking inside where the cartridge or squeeze converter would go... they are different. An international cartridge would not work on the pen the squeeze converter came out of and the converter doesn't want to fit on the other pen. To my untrained eye, all the rest of the pen parts look alike. Made for two different markets, or a copy ???

No, don't go to Evergreen, church classes ... and the Olympic Peninsula is farther West. Living in the East I was confused that there was anything West of Seattle but water. Then really looked at a map. Duh! Now I live here.

Hi folks,
I still got a bunch of medium nib Pilot 78g that will take an international cartridge or a Waterman converter.

I found those in Paris last summer and they come in black, teal and red.

If you are interested, please PM me. I'm willing to let them go at 20$ US including shipping.

All the best

Samovar

P.S. I should add that I'm selling those for beer and saké money for my upcoming trip to Japan!

Thanks for mentioning it. I'd never heard of them.


"Duh" to me. I've been out there, but long enough ago that my memories are getting rounded at the edges.

-- Brian

Evergreen State College is in Olympia, approximately 100 miles SE of the Olympic Peninsula.