What Refill System Do You Mostly Use?

[Blazing]

Which refill system do you mostly use? So like cartridges, converters, filling old cartridges with ink, piston filler, eyedropper etc.

 

I'm filling old cartridges with ink atm, it's a lot cleaner, saves money AND gives more ink capacity.

[Edwaroth]

I love the idea of cartridge fill pens... I always have a spare with me,I refill spent carts with the ink of my choice. That said, I also own three piston fillers and have four pens kept as eyedropper. My EDC is either a piston or eyedropper along with a cart fill. Two pens, tons of writing juice.

Edited June 22, 2013 by Edwaroth

[Blazing]

I love the idea of cartridge fill pens... I always have a spare with me,I refill spent carts with the ink of my choice. That said, I also own three piston fillers and have four pens kept as eyedropper. My EDC is either a piston or eyedropper along with a cart fill. Two pens, tons of writing juice.

Nice one, I'm refilling cartridges for my Pilot MR as I cannot find a converter which works and cartridges would be expensive.

[GabrielleDuVent]

I use converters mostly, but have piston-fillers as well. My Lamy sometimes gets a cartridge when I run out of ink in my converter.

[The Good Captain]

I just use whatever the pen takes. The exception is when I decide to fill a cartridge/converter and I tend to use the converter with a bottle.

If only they sold Twisted Spire in cartridges...

[torstar]

Of my 12 most expensive pens, i would guess 6 pistons, 3 converters, and 3 converters turned into ED.

 

Each has pros and cons. I prefer not to dip the nib in ink, spare me the mess, but it is worth it for good piston filler pens.

[Runnin_Ute]

Only one of my pens is other than cartridge/convertor.Right now one has a cartridge in it, my piston filler needs to be flushed and filled and 3 are using convertor. Once the Pilot Varsity has run out of its factory supplied ink I probably will not try to refill as a eyedropper. Just don't want to deal with it. Will probably just toss. Even though it is a very smooth writer.

[GabrielleDuVent]

I really wish Pilot would come out with Preppy-style Varsities. It writes smoothly and I love it, and it just seems a waste to keep tossing them after the ink runs out. But I don't want to go through the mess of turning it into eyedropper either...

[PAKMAN]

My favorite fill system is piston fill followed by levers then converters.

[ethernautrix]

I prefer cartridges (which I fill with inks of my choosing), but I have a couple of piston-fillers in rotation at the moment. Also, a cool little Waterman Lady Patricia with a lever that works like a tiny, lovely pump.

[camoandconcrete]

In the early days of my collecting I loved cartridges but, now (with the only exception being Non-LE Montegrappa's) I prefer piston or power fillers. Over 75% of my collection are Pelikan, Montblanc or OMAS piston fillers. I love Nakaya and similar Japanese pens but, just can't bring myself to buy one due to the cartridge/converter of those pens and will instead spend the money I would have spent on a Nakaya on a piston filled pen.

 

I know I am limiting myself but, its just me being me...weird.

Edited June 23, 2013 by MiamiArchStudent

[iamchum]

I think this topic was done like last month? lol but always interesting what people choose. Seems to be a trend that, as you get deeper into the rabbit hole you start preferring less common filling mechanisms. I for one am a big fan of piston and power fillers. Also like the reliability of the aerometric filler. Not so keen on lever fillers, I find they are less precise. Sometimes I dont leave the pen long enough in there and it conks out of ink before I expect leaving me pen-less until i get home.

[SnorriRafn]

I use converters in my Lamy's and cartridges in my Parker Frontier althoug I am thinking of turning it back into an eyedropper, the flow is much better that way. I refill the cartridges for the Parker.

 

Concerning the Varsities, it really is no problem to fill it up again, just use flat pliers and a towel or tissue to pull the nib and feed out and fill it up again. You will hear a very distinct click when reseating the nib/feed back in the section. I have done this twice now with no problems whatsoever but after many times it might start to leak. When I run into that problem I will just get another one and use this method;

 

It really seems like such a waste to throw them away every time they are empty.

[amberleadavis]

I really wish Pilot would come out with Preppy-style Varsities. It writes smoothly and I love it, and it just seems a waste to keep tossing them after the ink runs out. But I don't want to go through the mess of turning it into eyedropper either...

 

 

Here in the office, we just refilled 5 varsities. We put them in hot water, then dumped them tip down in to cold sample vials of ink. It was fun, and it worked.

[GabrielleDuVent]

 

 

Here in the office, we just refilled 5 varsities. We put them in hot water, then dumped them tip down in to cold sample vials of ink. It was fun, and it worked.

 

Huh. That's it? No pliers and guns and dentistry? Might try it when the pink runs out.

[rabiosocorazon]

Converters, but I prefer piston filler.

[mAnuscript69]

Most of my pens are cartridge/converters and I like them for ease of cleaning. My preference is for piston fillers though.

[Vendome]

I use converters in my best pens.

Although I have a couple of Parker cartridge pens and a Reform 1745 which is a piston filler.

[avlisyar]

My preferences are the Piston Filler, followed by the Convertor, ED and Cartridges.

It's interesting that I always seem to carry cartridges for my pocket pens

( Kaweco Sport and Passaporto ) as I carry them daily in my laptop bag.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Piston, so I have to be careful of red and purple inks because of window staining.

 

I'm glad I have a couple of aeromatic, c/c pens so I can use purple inks.

Because of staining I've not gotten into red inks.