What Converters Fit In Old Sheaffer Pens?

[Winston_Smith]

Hi, I have a vintage Sheaffer pen and I am looking for a new converter for it. Do you guys and girls know if modern converters fit old pens and if not where I can get an old converter?

 

Thank you!

[pen lady]

What's the pen model? Some 80's vintage Sheaffers take a slender converter, but most will take a standard size. Better hope it's not a "slender" they are rather thin on the ground.

[Ron Z]

A picture will help. Most Sheaffers take a standard converter either squeeze or piston, some however need a squeeze converter, some like the slim Targa, TRZ and slim Fashion pen take the slim converter which is no longer made (but for which there is a substitute) and some pens like the compact Imperials won't accept any converter at all. But there are a lot that were made before converters were introduced.

 

Sound confusing? It really is simple once we know what the pen is. You would no doubt have mentioned the model name if you knew, so a picture will help us!

[Venemo]

I have a Sheaffer Targa, the normal (not slim) version. It fits a modern Sheaffer converter.

[Winston_Smith]

Thank you for your answers! I would like to show you a picture but I don't see where is the option to upload it? I don't know the pen model sadly. I now have bigger problems, I just found out that the plastic feed is snapped

[mitto]

You mean the nipple onto which the converter fits has snapped?

[EBUCKTHORN]

Ron,

Could you please tell us about that substitute?

 

Thanks,

Barry

... some like the slim Targa, TRZ and slim Fashion pen take the slim converter which is no longer made (but for which there is a substitute)

[Ron Z]

Ron,

Could you please tell us about that substitute?

 

Thanks,

Barry

 

Sure. No secret at all. Before the Sheaffer service center closed they were providing the Montiverdi min converter as replacements for the slim converter. Its a small, inexpensive slide converter. I would guess that it holds just a little less ink, but it works. I suggest holding the nipple in boiling water for a few seconds the first time use it so that it can stretch a bit as you put it in the pen over the piercing tube. Otherwise they have a bit of a tendency to crack.

[Winston_Smith]

Here are some pictures that might make my questions clearer Thank you

Edited January 10, 2018 by Winston_Smith

[Ron Z]

Your pen is a Sheaffer Stylist, with what Sheaffer referred to as the "new" point i.e. Triumph style nib. It should take the squeeze converter, though your converter can be repaired with a new sac using a PVC sac which will last much longer than the a latex sac will. People tend to like these button converters, and I think its worth hanging onto. A resac is much cheaper than the squeeze converters are these days.

 

The piece that the nib screws onto will need to be replaced. The nib and feed with the piercing tube can be moved over to the new collar. Since black was the most common color, parts in black are somewhat scarce, but I have oodles of them in red, blue and burgundy. You'll also have to have the doughnut seal that goes at the end of the feed replaced.

 

Contact me back channel.

[EBUCKTHORN]

 

Sure. No secret at all. Before the Sheaffer service center closed they were providing the Montiverdi min converter as replacements for the slim converter. Its a small, inexpensive slide converter.

Thanks Ron. You've come through for us once again!

Barry

[Winston_Smith]

Thank you for your help!

[mitto]

I resize the squeeze converter for all those Sheaffer pens that do not take a converter at all.

 

Here is how.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/288378-what-sheaffer-imperial-is-this/?do=findComment&comment=3325351

[pajaro]

I used to think that to refill cartridges was a miserly sort of thing to do. I have come to realize that the old cartridges are easy to find, and, if you like to use red and purple inks you are better off refilling cartridges than using a converter that has a sac. The red and purple inks will shorten the life of latex sacs. I don't know about the effect of red and purple ink on silicone or pli-glas sacs.

[Ron Z]

The PVC and silicone sacs will not be effected by the boutique inks, or red inks, or inks that contain red like purple and brown. Given the cost of the red end PVC sac converters and the limited, its worth the cost of restoring the black end converters that had latex sacs with PVC sacs.

[pajaro]

The red end Sheaffer squeeze converters have PVC sacs? When I bought a couple of them, I thought they were advertized to be silicone sacs. It's comforting to know that they are PVC sacs. I won't worry about them failing.

[EBUCKTHORN]

I used to think that to refill cartridges was a miserly sort of thing to do. I have come to realize that the old cartridges are easy to find, and, if you like to use red and purple inks you are better off refilling cartridges than using a converter that has a sac. cs.

In the overall scheme of things it's minor but, refilling cartridges reduces the amount of single-use plastics, a MAJOR problem globally.

[pajaro]

In the overall scheme of things it's minor but, refilling cartridges reduces the amount of single-use plastics, a MAJOR problem globally.

 

A good point for any cartridge pen. Back in the 1960s this didn't seem important as it is today.

[pajaro]

Here's an odd converter for these pens: https://www.ebay.com/itm/SHEAFFER-PUSH-BUTTON-CONVERTER-FOR-FOUNTAIN-PEN-/183035534438?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=WucpkzV05QNFjnAzMY220igwRqE%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

 

Bought on ebay from a Canadian seller.

[mitto]

That is a anothrr variant of the Sheaffer button converter. Nice find.