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You can remove the bearing by taking it apart

That defeats the supposed purpose, which is to keep ink from sticking to the sides of the converter.

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Yes, but the ones with the spring are harder to clean if you switch ink colors. I've got some that have stains around the bottom on the inside, and have worried that the coils trap ink as well. This is particularly an issue with pens where I sometimes use iron gall inks in the pens, but sometimes not.

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I suppose, however, you can toss it in an ultrasonic cleaner, or disassemble the converter to clean it.

 

If you write only a couple words at a time, the ball bearing would be fine, but if you try and write a full sheet, you'll run out of ink in the collector unless you get into the habit of inverting the pen every few words....which I don't care to do.

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That defeats the supposed purpose, which is to keep ink from sticking to the sides of the converter.

 

Is the ball bearing really necessary? Parker cartridges don't have them. Other converters don't have them.

Which is a bigger problem - ink sticking to the sides, or the ball bearing sealing off the converter?

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I suppose, however, you can toss it in an ultrasonic cleaner, or disassemble the converter to clean it.

 

If you write only a couple words at a time, the ball bearing would be fine, but if you try and write a full sheet, you'll run out of ink in the collector unless you get into the habit of inverting the pen every few words....which I don't care to do.

Honestly, I did not have a problem like this with the ball bearing converters. I did have to disassemble a converter with the coil recently (because of the staining/trapped ink issue), and it was a major PITA, and I'm kinda hoping that I'm not going to have leaks now that I've gotten it back together.

OTOH, if I'm going to be doing lots of writing at one time -- i.e., more than the three pages of 5" x 8" in my daily journal -- I'm going to be using something other than a c/c pen. Much as I like my Vectors, they're a little small in girth to be comfortable for long-term writing sessions (ditto for the 45). Instead I'm going to more likely to use one of the 51s, the Vac Major, a Pelikan M200 or M400, or a Noodler's Konrad. Those are all pens that fit my hand well, and hold a lot of ink.

Of course they're also a bit (to a lot) more expensive....

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The problem I had, and the reason I found out that they can be disassembled, is that I was trying to flush out a 45 with the converter installed, using the converter to draw in water and then force it out repeatedly until clean.

 

I forgot about the ball bearing and suddenly was having a hard time getting it to expel the water, so I pushed harder on the converter plunger, and POP! It came apart and the ball bearing "almost" made it down the drain. Can't believe I caught it in time. For me, this is the biggest problem with the ball bearing because when I try to clean the pen, the nib of course is pointed down and the ball wants to seal it off.

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I love the way this thread is going. On another forum, pages are being written on ways to insert a ball into the converter to improve ink flow and here we are talking about removing the ball to improve ink flow. A load of b...s if you ask me :lol: .

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...here we are talking... A load of b...s if you ask me :lol: .

 

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I missed your previous posts in the thread, the ones with the B.S...?

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I love the way this thread is going. On another forum, pages are being written on ways to insert a ball into the converter to improve ink flow and here we are talking about removing the ball to improve ink flow. A load of b...s if you ask me :lol: .

 

I'm wondering which you think is the BS here, removing the ball bearing or putting one in. Probably doesn't matter. Any of the converters are more useful than most P45s. Most of the P45s I have have a stingy ink flow, ball bearing or not, spring or not, P45 converter, P75 converter or cartridge. The one I have that writes is the one with the CI nib Pendemonium ground. A fine CI. Fine line width. Squeeze converter. Maybe the other squeeze converters could benefit from an added ball bearing, or maybe just some BS added.

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I'm wondering which you think is the BS here, removing the ball bearing or putting one in. Probably doesn't matter. Any of the converters are more useful than most P45s. Most of the P45s I have have a stingy ink flow, ball bearing or not, spring or not, P45 converter, P75 converter or cartridge. The one I have that writes is the one with the CI nib Pendemonium ground. A fine CI. Fine line width. Squeeze converter. Maybe the other squeeze converters could benefit from an added ball bearing, or maybe just some BS added.

I think something got lost in the translation :) . Having said that, and on a more serious note, I find the squeeze converter works the best and I have never found that the ball bearing contributes anything other than a rattle.

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Yes, but the ones with the spring are harder to clean if you switch ink colors. I've got some that have stains around the bottom on the inside, and have worried that the coils trap ink as well. This is particularly an issue with pens where I sometimes use iron gall inks in the pens, but sometimes not.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

The converter would work even without the bearing. So you may disassemble the converter and remove the bearing.

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I got a Lamy Z26 converter today which fits the 45 perfectly. It would be nice to get a Parker converter, but I haven't found any source for them locally - in South Africa - and shipping from anywhere else tends to be very slow, very expensive or both.

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Of course, the big Parker cartridge has a larger capacity than almost any

converter. Have you considered using a syringe to inject (carefully and slowly)

bottle ink of your choice into the cartridges ?

 

Handled carefully, a Parker cartridge can be refilled more than a dozen times,

before the seal gets loose.

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I think something got lost in the translation :) . Having said that, and on a more serious note, I find the squeeze converter works the best and I have never found that the ball bearing contributes anything other than a rattle.

 

I agree totally on both points. I'm using a Montblanc converter in one of mine.

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