Omas Celluloid Type

[mhphoto]

Hi there! I am curious to know if the celluloid that OMAS manufactures and uses for their pens is the older, flammable nitrocellulose type or the cellulose acetate type. I know it's the former if you can smell camphor, but my two celluloid OMAS pens don't have any detectable camphor scent.

 

Thanks!

[FriendAmos]

Hi there! I am curious to know if the celluloid that OMAS manufactures and uses for their pens is the older, flammable nitrocellulose type or the cellulose acetate type. I know it's the former if you can smell camphor, but my two celluloid OMAS pens don't have any detectable camphor scent.

 

Thanks!

 

To satisfy your curiosity, as given in the first sentence, look at the second sentence.

[stevesurf]

Here's an interesting thread

[mhphoto]

 

To satisfy your curiosity, as given in the first sentence, look at the second sentence.

 

My sense of smell is not so great. I think I can smell the camphor in my two old-style Paragons in bronze arco and arco verde, but not in the (also old-style) burlwood Paragon or the new-style Milord in bronze arco. I was just looking for confirmation.

[fabri00]

The first "celluloid like" of Omas at end '80 - early '90 was in celluloid, and it smelled of canphor. I own few of that pens.

That serie had issue of stability of the material.

I'not sure of the later ones, as I do not own any of them.