Rotring Art Pen

[Judybug]

I just received a Rotring Art Pen (EF) from one seller on Amazon. I ordered a "Rotring Standard Converter" from another Amazon seller. I assumed it would fit any Rotring pen, but the hole in the converter is too big for the thingy it goes on. Is anyone familiar with the Rotring Art Pen? Is there a special converter for it? If so, I can't find it online. I was looking forward to sketching with this pen. Any help will be appreciated.

 

Judybug

[Tasmith]

All my Rotring Artpens use the same converter.

 

As far as I know, they're standard international converters.

 

Todd

[inkstainedruth]

I have a Rotring Art Pen (also an EF nib as it happens) that someone gave me, but it already had a converter in it. I have no clue what size converter it would take.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[migo984]

This might help

 

http://www.thewritingdesk.co.uk/showproduct.php?brand=rotring&name=Piston+Converter

[Sailor Kenshin]

I just received a Rotring Art Pen (EF) from one seller on Amazon. I ordered a "Rotring Standard Converter" from another Amazon seller. I assumed it would fit any Rotring pen, but the hole in the converter is too big for the thingy it goes on. Is anyone familiar with the Rotring Art Pen? Is there a special converter for it? If so, I can't find it online. I was looking forward to sketching with this pen. Any help will be appreciated.

Judybug

Standard internationals. So any 'standard international' converter should fit. I use mine with cartridges, though.

[Judybug]

Thanks. Glad some of you have this pen. I'm beginning to think the converter I got is fine and the problem is the pen itself. I put a cartridge in and it just rattles around in there. When I shine a flashlight down in the pen where the feed shaft is (I guess that's what you call it), the shaft is small in diameter and very short. When I screw the pen barrel on, it doesn't even puncture the cartridge. Do you think this pen is defective or missing some extension that's supposed to be on the shaft? Feeling very frustrated. I'm not a newbie to fountain pens, but I've never encountered this problem.

 

Judybug

[Sailor Kenshin]

I used to have five of these ArtPens, now I'm down to one (a teal 1.1 calligraphy nib), and I wish I had not given the rest away, as they were some of my nicest writers.

 

They MAY be the kind of pen that's designed to house a spare cart, back-to-back, in order to work best. You know, flat sides together. That's usually the case with Pelikanos and the Juniors.

[Tasmith]

You may have to push the cartridge into the section/feed with carefully your thumb to pierce the cartridge end to get the ink flowing.

[Judybug]

I installed the two cartridges back to back and that worked. But the dang converter just does not fit. Oh, well, I can always refill cartridges with a syringe.

 

I'm very satisfied with the way the pen writes. Haven't had time to do any sketching yet. I live just south of Baton Rouge, LA. Our house didn't flood, but our daughter's house did. She and her husband and three kids - 4 year old twin boys and a 5 year old girl - are staying with us. It's wild around here! Not much time for creative pursuits!

 

Judybug