Platinum Preppy Fountain Pen

[loveroffountainpen]

Hello,

 

I have got myself five Platinum Preppy fountain pens. No doubt, they are good writers. But, is there any durability issue with platinum preppy. I saw a thread on FPN, that it has, but I cannot find that thread now. The reason I am asking is, i want to buy one platinum converter then use it all my preppys on rotation. of course, if preppy is not a long lasting model, i see no reason to invest in a converter.

 

Grateful for you views.

 

brgds

[Water Ouzel]

They seem to have some issues with cracking caps, but not always.

 

The only issue I've had so far on any Preppy is that the 0.2mm XF caps all seem to come loose almost right out of the package. The inner cap will still hold, but it's not strong enough to keep the whole cap on the pen. The F and M versions don't seem to have that problem, unless it's something new with the recent redesign of the Preppy about the same time the 0.2 was introduced.

 

Pity, too, the pen writes pretty well.

[erpe]

I have not yet experienced the mentioned capcracking but with the type of plastic, I can imagine it will one happen day. Puting some tape over the edge of the cap before it cracks seems to help/prevent Regarding the converters: the Platinum converters are expensive quite small. I use standardconverters from JinHao with the Platinum adapter. Maybe check with Goulet or another good store if these are still available.

[ecologito]

I have had mine as a daily writer for a few week and so far so good. If there are any durability issues, for the price, I would be more concerned about the converter than the pen itself. I also ordered a plaisir which interchanges all parts with the preppy if you end up with a pen for the converter

[kulnet]

I have 3 Preppys. One with the cracked cap issue. However, it still writes just fine and there doesn't appear to be any spillage of ink and so I just go on with my life. At $4 that I paid at my local pen shop, I will just chunk it in the trash should it ever become a real issue.

[Sailor Kenshin]

The Platinum carts are remarkably sturdy and many-times-refillable.

[Jamerelbe]

I've had one Preppy cap (from 4 pens) crack on me - apparently Platinum *were* made aware of an issue earlier this year, that they were addressing.

 

I went onto eBay a couple of years ago and bought about 4 Platinum converters (cheap, plastic "after-market" versions), almost certainly not made by Platinum but they work really well!

[loveroffountainpen]

Thx for valuable advice, esp. availability of cheap converters and reusability of the Plt. cartridges.

 

brgds,

[baik12]

I had my Preppys (EF) for a while now, and I don't have any problems with them.

Over the month, I have eyedropper converted them, carried them almost everyday in my cloth pencil case, and went on two plane rides--but still no cracks.

I think using them un-posted helps a lot.

[jefffstone]

I have 5 Platinum Preppy fountain pens which I've had for over a year and they all work fine, with no cracks so far. If you are going to be rotating them with one converter, the pens will probably outlast the converter, unless you are really rough on your pens. One Preppy I use as an eyedropper.

[onetwothree]

I've owned 3 preppy's (gifted one of them away) and none has shown any sign of cracking or unreasonable wear. They write amazingly. If you can have a single or maybe a couple converters and switch around your pens they will eventually pay for themselves as bottle ink is more economical. Furthermore the converters shouldn't have any reason to break other than if you have a major pen accident or lose the pen altogether (which might happen given they look so inexpensive eventually you might lend it to someone that won't care too much about returning it because they might think its a disposable pen).

But all things considered, if you can use 1 or 2 converters for all your 5 pens and just rotate the bodies rather than have a single converter for each (and effectively doubling the pen's value since converter are actually slightly more expensive than the pens themselves) it might be worth it.