Where on EARTH I Can buy Parker Liquid Pencil Leads? 51 & 61 !

[OcalaFlGuy]

This post is going to make some cringe.

 

I read in this thread about all these "useless" liquid lead pencils sitting around. Now, sure, I can see the collectors

who feel some need and joy in keeping a completely useless writing instrument just because it WAS produced at

some point in time, but there are also others with more practical minds.

 

Here's the cringe part, you might want to sit down.

 

Now, the bad news here is I don't have this guys name but I suspect someone on FPN knows who he is.

 

He was at the Atlanta pen show showing his work and I couldn't help but check it out pretty closely. He

certainly had a backwards way of looking at things some might think.

 

He was taking perfectly good FP's, mostly Parkers, Duofolds, Vacs, and 51's AND TURNING THEM INTO FUNCTIONING

BALLPOINT PENS!

 

He had gone to ALOT of effort to "reverse engineer" the idea and I have to say, the pens looked REALLY NEAT.

 

Now, here's the pretty neat part, he wasn't just going to all this effort to use some crappy stick refill, I don't recall

which ones he was using but he was using quality refills and most all the pens were CAP ACTUATED which I thought

was Tres Cool. Just looking at the pens, if you covered the very tip with your fingers you couldn't really tell anything

had been done to them. They looked to be Very Well Done.

 

IF I had a liquid lead pencil and was less concerned about maintaining any collectors integrety by keeping it stock

and useless than I was about being able to actually use it for something, I'll bet he could retrofit it to accept a

high quality BP refill.

 

I'd suspect he might be interested in doing this if he hasn't already just for the sheer number of liquid lead pencils

laying around in an unusable condition.

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL

[jonro]

A couple of years ago I bought some disposable liquid lead pencils in OfficeMax under the brand name PenTech. They look just like standard #2 pencils, but they are not. As Tom mentioned, the writing quality isn't very good. While they are very smooth, they don't lay down a continuous line and the line is on the light side of gray. You might be able to pull one of these apart and retrofit it into your 51. It's one of those writing technologies that could be great–if they ever managed to perfect it.

[FarmBoy]

IF I had a liquid lead pencil and was less concerned about maintaining any collectors integrety by keeping it stock

and useless than I was about being able to actually use it for something, I'll bet he could retrofit it to accept a

high quality BP refill.

Hummm. I guess I could convert my 51 LL pencils to ballpoints but then what would I do with all the 51 ballpoints I already don't use?

 

I know...I'm bordering on turning into a collector.

 

Todd

[OcalaFlGuy]

bordering?

 

How many Estie Flowmasters do you have that can't be "written" with?

 

Hmmmm?

 

(Hey, you could always have one of your Visumasters tuned into a BP so you could have a uber

rare Visumaster FP/BP set! :clap1: )

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL

Edited May 17, 2009 by OcalaFlGuy

[jar]

Of all my LL's only two kinda write, one actually pretty well.

[aircraft_electrician]

Pentech makes a modern liquid lead pencil, the Liquaphite. maybe the refills for one of these could be adapted to a Parker LL?

 

Tom

[ASL]

Very interesting Lead .. If it could fit or adapted Cheers Amr

 

Pentech makes a modern liquid lead pencil, the Liquaphite. maybe the refills for one of these could be adapted to a Parker LL?

 

Tom

 

[Vintagepens]

Nice idea, but that pressurized cartridge looks awfully fat. Doubt very much that it will fit.

Keep us posted if you get it to work, though!

[Rick Krantz]

I ran into about 40 of these this past weekend, a few actually sorta worked, and they were all cheap. several different styles, and colors. Didn't buy a one.

[ASL]

Hi rick .. I would assume you are talking about the old LL versions not the new ones of Pentech? If this is the case .. can you recall further details on Seller ? Website, price, etc.. Many thanks Amr

 

 

Pentech makes a modern liquid lead pencil, the Liquaphite. maybe the refills for one of these could be adapted to a Parker LL?

 

Tom

 

[Rick Krantz]

I saw the LL pencils at the flea market, on this past sunday, there were the 51 style, and the "21" style, I think they were priced anywhere from $5 to $7 each, I think one or two were $12

 

 

[pengoddess]

Years ago, many years ago, Nathan (aka Noodlers) Tardif came up with a way to pulverize graphite and mix with some sort of binder and refilled some Parker liquid lead refills. Lots of work and time as I recall. I thought I had hung on to the info, but can't find it in my files anywhere. If you're really desperate and want to try this, you might try searching the Zoss archives, I'm 99% sure that was where it was posted: http://www.zoss.com/pens.archive/ If not there it was on alt-collecting pens and I'm not sure if that even exists anymore.

 

Sam

[sztainbok]

Reviving an old thread with new information. Refills for ll pencils are now available from Pentooling https://pentooling.com/parkerliquidlead.html

However they are not graphite refills. they need to be erased using a plastic eraser. They offer both sizes.

[Tony Selleck]

On 03/06/2025 at 15:42, sztainbok said:

Riprendo una vecchia discussione con nuove informazioni. Le ricariche per le matite ll sono ora disponibili da Pentooling  : https://pentooling.com/parkerliquidlead.html

Tuttavia non sono ricariche in grafite. Devono essere cancellate con una gomma di plastica. Sono disponibili in entrambe le misure.

Thanks!👍