Too many pilot cartridges

[Oshic1273]

[rickap]

Looks like it's time to starting writing a book (NaNoWriMo). Or perhaps you can take some to a meeting of the Seattle Pen club when they start meeting in person again. I'd start writing with them as I have the same problem but with bottled ink:).

 

 

[arcfide]

Wet, broad, juicy nib + lots and lots of writing.  If NaNoWriMo isn't your thing, you could take up Morning Pages, and do the full 3 A4 Pages. 

[inkstainedruth]

I'll admit that I MUCH prefer A5 size for Morning Pages.  In my defense, though, I tend to write small and so do two lines per printed line (which gets interesting on days like this morning -- when the main pen/ink combo was the No Nonsense with the IM nib and MB Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Encre du Desert, which is a fairly wet ink IME to begin with...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[AmandaW]

Or... draw with a fude nib and very quickly begin to worry whether you have enough ink. And bonus: an excuse a reason to collect even more.

[awa54]

LOL! doesn't look like anywhere near too many Pilot carts to me, but then I'm one who believes that if there's physically room for it in your house, then there's no such thing as too much ink

 

Nice drawer unit you have there, perfect for writing/drawing/art stuff!

[AmandaW]

Hang on, silly me, they will fit a Pilot Parallel Pen.  Perfect for calligraphy practice. They'll be empty very quickly.

[AmandaW]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JfbmcyAdU-U

[Oshic1273]

Also in the video:

- 2 Amazon basics cartridges

- a pilot squeeze converter

- a flashlight

- a notebook

- my pilot friXion

 

I don't know why I made this

[Stationery Fan]

Haha, I really enjoyed seeing that pile of black cartridges for some reason. I guess it was how organised it was. Meanwhile, I'm thinking "not enough pilot cartridges" to myself. I have a single pilot cartridge that came with my first pilot pen, and I am hoping I get two more with the pens that are currently in transit...I didn't stop and check when I clicked "buy" during the Fountain Pen Day spree. 

 

How did you amass this collection anyway? With the pens bought, or cartridges bought in packs?

Edited November 8, 2021 by Stationery Fan
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[Oshic1273]

It came in 12 boxes with 12 cartridges each, those 12 packs were shipped in one big box

 

[essayfaire]

On 11/3/2021 at 1:37 PM, Oshic1273 said:

 

And now they apparently make both IC and their normal proprietary cartridges.  Sigh, I somehow ended up with both...

[A Smug Dill]

2 hours ago, essayfaire said:

And now they apparently make both IC and their normal proprietary cartridges.

 

IC? Integrated circuit? I thought it was Sailor that has a Robotics division.

[essayfaire]

22 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

IC? Integrated circuit? I thought it was Sailor that has a Robotics division.

To wit: 

[A Smug Dill]

42 minutes ago, essayfaire said:

To wit: 

 

O IC

[awa54]

the digital clock equipped Murex must have had an IC in it

 

...though definitely *not* an International Cartridge

 

I'd be surprised to see Bots on a pen forum, after all we're not supposed to discuss politics here

[A Smug Dill]

On 11/9/2021 at 7:02 AM, essayfaire said:

And now they apparently make both IC and their normal proprietary cartridges.  Sigh, I somehow ended up with both...

 

There you reminded me that I, too, have a couple of those IC-50 packs:

 

 

The ink cartridges contained therein are in Pilot's proprietary format; so what did you really mean? The first letter in the IC-50 designation does not stand for International.

[essayfaire]

7 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

There you reminded me that I, too, have a couple of those IC-50 packs:

 

 

The ink cartridges contained therein are in Pilot's proprietary format; so what did you really mean? The first letter in the IC-50 designation does not stand for International.

There's a backstory to my having the ICs - a Pilot bought in Japan needed a repair, but I am not in Japan.  Pilot USA was able to "repair" the housing, and they sent it back Sith these IC labelled-cartridges and some other goodies(great customer service, BTW).  When the pen was returned to me I asked about the cartouches and was told by the US division that the cartridges I had previously used (Japanese purchased proprietary) would no longer fit the pen.

 

I had no reason to doubt their veracity, so I have not attempted to put an old cartridge in the now-functional pen.  

 

So what does the IC stand for, as I agree this is not a robotics board?

[A Smug Dill]

6 hours ago, essayfaire said:

So what does the IC stand for, as I agree this is not a robotics board?

 

It's just a product model number, and the prefix does not necessarily stand for anything (especially what would make sense to English speakers). Nevertheless, given how Pilot hasn't shown much imagination in such things — retail bottle ink products have model ‘numbers’ with the INK- prefix, and converters have model ’numbers’ with the CON- prefix — at a guess, I'd say IC simply stands for ‘ink cartridges’.

[awa54]

On 11/10/2021 at 3:43 PM, essayfaire said:

.... was told by the US division that the cartridges I had previously used (Japanese purchased proprietary) would no longer fit the pen.

 

I had no reason to doubt their veracity, so I have not attempted to put an old cartridge in the now-functional pen.  

....

 

 

I'd love to see pictures of the cartridge mouth of both your old Japanese cartridges and the new ones supplied by Pilot USA

 

if Pilot is preparing to switch to International pattern cartridges in the US market, that would be "interesting"...

 

Knowing the dimensions of the Pilot feed and cartridge interface, I can't imagine that it would be possible to switch the Custom 74 to International carts, without an entirely new feed.