Converting A Jetstream Refill To Fit My Parker Jotter

[pakucha]

I have tried to get my Jetstream refill fit into my Jotter, followed the instructions but got stuck after cutting off the collar - even with pretty much all of it gone the refill still won't get through the Jotter barrel. Have the Jetstreams refills changed since this hack was first tried? Anyone out there who still uses this method? Or any suggestions about getting a similarly great ink into the Jotter?

[Mike 59]

Hi, Are you using a stainless steel jotter? The Jetstream refills will only fit in those types.

[pakucha]

Hi Mike, thanks for the suggestion. In the morning I did try the one with a plastic barrel, just as the one in the picture with the original post. But now that I'm trying the stainless steel Jotter, it won't go through either. As the stainless steel one is years old the only explanation I have it that the bottom part of the refill got thicker. Or am wrong? Do you or anyone else use it this way?

[Mike 59]

Hi, The Jetstream refill will go through the end of the Jotter, but you have to take out the black plastic piece first, and you will have to use a different, shorter spring, the Jotter spring is too long.

The Jetstream refill in my photo is only lightly filed around the collar part, not cut right back. It goes through the barrel ok.

[pakucha]

...you have to take out the black plastic piece first...

 

Bingo, that was it. I didn't know about this part. Thanks!