Hey Javelin owners

[sp_maher]

I use Javelins for most of my grading because they travel so well, but I'm tired of using cartridges. Easy question, will the Javelin accept a converter? If so, which one? Thanks.

 

Sean

[Roger]

I use Javelins for most of my grading because they travel so well, but  I'm tired of using cartridges.  Easy question, will the Javelin accept a converter?  If so, which one?  Thanks.

 

Sean

I've wondered about a converter with them, also, Sean.

 

I'll tell you what they do make into, and that's an ED! Just pull out the cart. and fill that puppy with ink after putting just a bit of pure silicon grease on the barrel threads. The bloody thing holds a ton of ink and the flow is ever so slightly on the wet side of average with my F nibs. Try it. You can always wash out the barrel and return to cart. if you don't like it.

 

 

Oh, a caveat. Leave at least 3/8 in. free space when filling with ink. Otherwise, you'll have a lap full of ink when you screw the barrel into the section and the feed displaces some of the barrel volume.

[Keith with a capital K]

I would have to check but if the Javelin will not accept the newer Sheaffer piston convertor it could be fitted with a squeeze convertor which is the same dimensions as the Sheaffer cartridge.

 

A number of newer Sheaffer models do not accept the longer piston convertor and last time I heard, the squeeze convertors were still available from Sheaffer U.S.A. for around $4.00 / each.

 

I am partial to eyedropper conversions myself as you get a better working pen that holds a ton of ink.

[PenHero]

Actually, the current piston converter (Prelude / Agio) *does* work in both the plastic and metal versions.

[sp_maher]

Thanks for all the help. I like the eye dropper idea for my plastic Javelins and I'll pick up a piston converter as well. I teach U.S. History and thought that grading with Noodlers Antietam might be uniquely appropriate.

 

Sean

[Roger]

Thanks, Jim, for the converter info.

 

I should also mention that my F nibbed Javelins were all a little more scratchy than I like, but with my new found skills with the 0.3 micron lapping film, I've got those babies writing as smooth as any F nib has a right to! Truth be known, they're now a tad better than the F nibs on both my Bexley Submariner Grande and my Aurora Optima, and they're nothing to sneeze at.

 

For you folks that haven't tried them, get a handful of the plastic Javelins from Jim. At $5.00 each plus shipping which Jim will combine for you, they are a marvelous way to introduce a youngster to pendom.