How to get your Parker Touche felt tip writing again

[bahnstormer]

Hi Guys, 

 

I have found a way to get these old felt tip Parkers to write again- the models that only will fit the proprietary felt tip Parker refills that no other refills will fit into. 

 

What I have done on three pens successfully now is to convert the actual felt refill itself to a rollerball refill. Now, I have only done this on the metal bodied felt refills, I haven't tried it on the plastic bodied felt refills yet but the theory is still the same, you would just have to be extra careful not to break the plastic refill as it is soft thin plastic prone to cracking if it gets bent. 

 

This is what you do: 

 

Pull out the plastic end cap from the back of the Touche refill 

Pull out the fibre writing tip from the front of the Touche refill 

Pull out the wadding from inside the Touche refill through the back end. I used a long coarse thread drywall screw to screw into the dried up wadding and pull it out. I had to spend a bit of time with a bottle brush cleaning all the dried up and disintegrated wadding stuck to the inner walls of the refill. 

 

Now, take a Parker rollerball refill and pull out the ball tip from the front of the rollerball refill. You need to be extra careful with these as they are a soft hollow metal that will crush if you grip it too hard. You need small pliers to do this.  The metal ball tip will come out with a longer felt tail on it which spikes into the wadding inside to draw the ink out via capillary. Keep this on the metal ball tip. 

The rollerball refills don't have a removable end cap/ plug, they are joined in the middle of the refill. Some may separate in the middle section some won't and you have to cut the back end off to remove the wadding. 

 

Now, insert the metal ball tip with the fibre tail into the front end of the Touche refill and the rollerball wadding into the back end and make sure that the wadding sits right down to the front end of the refill and the capillary tail is spiked into the wadding. 

Replace the plastic end cap into the back end of the Touche refill and you now have a Parker Touche Rollerball pen! 

 

When the refill runs out you should be able to pop off the plastic end cap again and drop some ink into the wadding.