Vintage Sheaffer Cartridge Mod For Shorter Cartridge

[dkreider]

I picked up this pen a few months ago, it is a Sheaffer Japan pen, made by Sailor if I'm not mistaken. I read that the vintage Sheaffer Slim cartridges would fit, so I ordered a 5-pack of them (obviously, the ink had long since dried out, so I just cleaned one out to fill with a syringe). They fit onto the nipple within the section, but were too long to fit inside the barrel, suggesting that Sheaffer made a shorter version at some point. I prefer converters, but if there are any that are compatible, then I am unaware of them.

I cut off the excess material, and created a cork plug from a typical wine bottle cork. This fit very tightly, but I glued it in place with Loctite 480, just to be a little more confident that the plug would stay put.

This is a very simple mod, but it works well, and I have not found it elsewhere on FPN, so I thought I would share. I do apologize if this has been done by someone else.

 

One reason I am posting this is to learn if anyone has found a better way to do this (easier, faster, etc.), so feel free to let me know if you have any criticisms or ideas. Thanks, hope this is useful to somebody.

[Ron Z]

The pen is a Sheaffer Sentinel, and it was indeed made for Sheaffer by Sailor in the 1980s. The pen uses the slim converter used in the slim Targa, TRZ and Fashion lines. You can use a refilled slim cartridge, or use a modern day Monteverdi mini converter, which is what Sheaffer was providing when the service center closed in 2008. You might be able to use one of the mini converters for a Kaweco sport since they both use the DIN standard piercing tube.

[dkreider]

The pen is a Sheaffer Sentinel, and it was indeed made for Sheaffer by Sailor in the 1980s. The pen uses the slim converter used in the slim Targa, TRZ and Fashion lines. You can use a refilled slim cartridge, or a modern day Monteverdi mini converter, which is what Sheaffer was providing when the service center closed in 2008. You might be able to use one of the mini converters for a Kaweco sport since they both use the DIN standard piercing tube.

Thanks, I didn't know about that Monteverde converter, nor did I know this was a Sentinel. Thanks again

[Paul-in-SF]

On 7/31/2019 at 1:01 PM, Ron Z said:

You can use a refilled slim cartridge

I am bumping this to basically ask the same question for a Lifetime Imperial pen I recently got, with an inlaid nib. It has the same problem: the old slim cartridges are too long to fit in the barrel, without modification like dkreider did. Newer cartridges are too thick to fit in the barrel. So it sounds like the only solution is to find one of the converters that fits? The slim cartridges I have are 64.75 mm long. 

 

The nipple on my pen is 2.36 mm as best I can measure it, give or take .01 mm. Is that the DIN standard piercing tube that you referred to above?