Refill For Parker 45 Ballpoint

[sandy101]

Hello, everyone. I found a P45 (flighter) ballpoint and propelling pencil stashed in a drawer. The ballpoint won't take the Parker gel refill from my jotter, as it is too thick.

 

Does anyone know if there are any refills this pen will take?

[gweimer1]

What about a standard Parker Quink ballpoint refill?

 

http://www.staples.com/Parker-Fine-Ballpoint-Refill-For-Parker-Ballpoint-Pens-Each-Black/product_294074

[pajaro]

The gel refill ought to fit. The Quink refill ought to. I use a Pelikan broad refill in mine. They are all the same design and compatible.

[OcalaFlGuy]

Try an Itoya Gel, those are my favorite.

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

[welch]

...and check for gunk inside the barrel. I've had ballpoints "reject" a refill but then found a build-up of ballpoint ink-paste. Cleaned and pen worked fine.

 

The P-45 ballpoint is pretty much a Jotter with a fancy push-down cap rather than a button. So was the P-51 ballpoint. They should take any Parker, Monteverde, or Pelikan refill. As Bruce mentions, the Itoya gel refills are thinner...and good.

[Mike 59]

Just tried a gel refill in a 45 flighter, and it fits the same as the Powerpoint and QuinkFlow refills.

[sandy101]

Thank you everyone. I put a standard Quink refill in and it worked. The Gel refill from my jotter didn't fit, for whatever reason.

Anyway, it's working now.

 

Thank you, everyone.

[chrisoslo]

Weird.
But if you put them side by side maybe you'll see something strange with the gel refill.

[OcalaFlGuy]

Thank you everyone. I put a standard Quink refill in and it worked. The Gel refill from my jotter didn't fit, for whatever reason.

Anyway, it's working now.

 

Thank you, everyone.

 

In the weird that it won't fit category.

 

Hold both refills side by side. Pay close attention the shaft part after the main tank. Are both of them on both refills

Perfectly Straight?

 

I'm wondering (while this brainweevel eats away) if the shaft on the No Fit one is bent Just Enough to prevent it from

going in all the way.

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

[Flounder]

When I put a brand new Parker gel refill in my jotter, the point resisted slightly at first, I thought the tolerance was amazing with no slop whatsoever. After a few days of use, it was the same as the preceding ballpoint refill.

[Frank_ie]

After 50 years on the market, mechanical designs are not proprietary anymore. That goes for the Leica M-mount, Nikon F-mount and many others as well.

 

The Parker and Cross refill fit this category...hence Parker- or Cross-style refills abound. The ink inside had also evolved, from oil-based BP to liquid ink and to gel...

 

I will say for oil-based, the Parker Quinkflow is best; liquid-ink is generic and tends to seize up for no reason at all; for gel I favour the Itoya...my first one is now nearly used up, had no problem as yet. The Parker Gel sucks...skips and leaks and blobs.

 

Lately I am investigating the Uniball Jetstream for conversion into Parker-style. I have no problem lathing down the collar or cutting the refill to length...I have a small lathe. I only have twist-mechanism pens, so the end cap is not an issue at all. [i do have end-caps in hand...twisting off old refills or saved from free adapter in Fisher Space Pens.]

 

My ultimate conversion is to reuse the clear plastic casing of the Itoya Parker-style refill, fitting into it the straight Jetstream refill for the cheaper cap-barrel pen. All I need to do is to remove the thinner refill tip portion and bore the hole larger to 3- mm. Anyone could cut the plastic refill tube to length.

[Flounder]

My Parker gel refill started getting thin last week, I wiped the tip with methylated spirits and it seems to be behaving itself. it's a shame they have earned a mixed reputation, because I love how they write. I bought a Schmidt Easyflow 9000M refill after reading good reviews, and can't see what the fuss is about. It feels like a ballpoint as I drag it about the paper, and looks like a ballpoint on the page.

[Frank_ie]

I have a Schmidt Easyflow in use. It feels and writes like one of those low-viscosity ink refills...better than olde BP but bettered by the Quinkflow.