WTB squeeze converter or piston converter for Legacy II

[badrsj]

Hi, my sheaffer legacy II plunger type filler with a converter inisde (barometeric for choice of a better word) has a leak and does not do well - is there an alternative converter that avoids this type of problem (ink all over

[badrsj]

Hi, Does anyone know if this pen takes a converter other than the plunger - pressure activated type?

Thanks

Badrsj

[Bradley]

I don't have an answer for you, badrsj, but I have gathered from Jim (the Sheaffer man, PenHero) that the Touchdown filling Legacies do not accept other converters.

 

I know a lot of people find the Touchdown filling mechanism "cool" and like it for its novelty, I suppose, but it just isn't for me. I'm never sure if I've gotten enough ink and am scared to plunge too many times for fear I'll hurt the mechanism or draw up ink into the pen barrel or something. The squeeze-type converter surely looks to be the same exact size as the Touchdown converter, but I have never had the courage to try it in my Legacy. The pen was so gosh-darned expensive to begin with, that I don't want to do anything to harm it.

 

So I have compromised, as it were, and use only cartridges in my Legacy. I would like to know if other converters could be used, however, and maybe bumping this back to the top will draw some replies more intelligent than mine. Good luck.

[Richard]

Badr, you can put a standard Sheaffer squeeze converter in a Legacy II in place of the special Touchdown adapter/converter that comes with the pen. Contact me B/C, please.

[andyk]

I know they fit in the original Legacy which I think is the ame size as the Legacy II, the squeeze cartridges look to be the same size/shape as the Touchdown ones. Haven't had need to use one in a Legacy II, but I have used one of the old button fill converters in a Legacy II, which fits and works quite well.

 

Andy

[amh210]

If it takes a normal Sheaffer cartridge, then it ought to take a normal Sheaffer converter.

 

Andy