Problems with converter

[tawanda]

Hello all,

I have recently begun collecting FPs so have little knowledge and experience. I have four Parker 45's, three with Lustaloy caps and one which is navy blue both top and bottom, witth silver looking trims.

Yesterday I took a fine nib and a modern converter (the one with the hard, black plastic piston and bal lbaring in) from my red 45 to put in to my navy grey, which arrived without a converter or cartridge via fleabay (only cost £5.00) but the converter wouldn't fit. I then took an older converter (rubber bladder with one continuous strip of steel going up and over to squeeze ink up with) from the all-blue one and that fitted!

Trying to distinguish if there was a difference in the pens, the only thing I discovered was that two of the Lustaloy caps have Parker and 45 engraved on them and two just have Parker. Do I take it they are from different times and therefore vary slightly inside?

I'd be grateful for any enlightenment, so that I know which converters go with which pens in future.

Thanks

T

[Richard]

There are VERY slight molding tolerances, but any Parker converter ever sold should fit in any 45 ever sold. I know all of these will fit any 45 I have in house:

 

http://www.richardspens.com/images/ref_info/glossary/converters_pkr.jpg

[Aysedasi]

Hi Annette, I've never had trouble interchanging old and new converters. The converter in the 45 you should be receiving from me any day now has the new modern 'slide' converter (the 5th one down in Richard's picture) in it which fits the flighter perfectly - I believe. Does it need just that little bit of extra oomph to push it home?

Edited July 31, 2008 by Aysedasi

[tawanda]

 

Hello Chaps

They definitely dont seem to want to grip it.

Asye - Got the pen this morning, it is gorgeous. Thank you. And yes that is the converter Ive been trying to put in the pens marked with 45 on the cap. When you insert it, it doesnt feeel like its sliding onto/into anything, it just hits the bottom. But the older style (3rd down in Richard's picture) fits the two 45 marked models fine.

Do you think there is anything missing, like a small rubber ring or something? Sorry, just spitballing, I haven't the foggiest what I'm talking about. Its not vital as I have two of the first converters pictured, one of the third and now two of the fifth to choose from so Im sure I won't go short, but it was just weird. I assumed they would all be interchangeable. I had heard/read that the Vector won't take certain converters.

Thanks fro the support though.

Just gonna ink up the Flighter now Ayse. Was that the MB racing green you wrote to me with? Nice colour.

TTFN

Tawanda