Refilling Pilot Custom 823

[corrsty]

Hi,

 

I recently got a Custom 823, inked it and love it very much.

 

I need your help on how to refill the pen when there's one-fourth ink left inside the barrel? Any special steps?

 

Thanks very much.

 

Edrich

[RevAaron]

You could always unscrew the section and eyedropper some ink in.

 

I use another method, but it's hard to explain and a bit contribed. But it lets me top it off (usually to make a mix) without a refill or squirting ink into the other bottle.

 

If you're sticking with the same ink/color, just fill it again the same way you did it when it was empty.

 

My contrived way involves can be summarized as thus: unscrew the knob, pulling the plunger back a titch to suck in some ink, take it out of the ink, turn the pen so the nib is up, slowly and push the plunger back toward the closed position. Repeat. To fill the pen from 1/4th full to 3/4ths full it would probably take quite a few of these kludgey maneuvers, and as such is definately not preferable.

 

Aaron

[corrsty]

hey, thanks for the quick reply.

 

if i use the same ink and do the refilling normally, will it not expel the remaining ink inside the barrel back to the ink bottle?

 

You could always unscrew the section and eyedropper some ink in.

 

I use another method, but it's hard to explain and a bit contribed. But it lets me top it off (usually to make a mix) without a refill or squirting ink into the other bottle.

 

If you're sticking with the same ink/color, just fill it again the same way you did it when it was empty.

 

My contrived way involves can be summarized as thus: unscrew the knob, pulling the plunger back a titch to suck in some ink, take it out of the ink, turn the pen so the nib is up, slowly and push the plunger back toward the closed position. Repeat. To fill the pen from 1/4th full to 3/4ths full it would probably take quite a few of these kludgey maneuvers, and as such is definately not preferable.

 

Aaron

 

[RevAaron]

It will expel the remaining ink into the bottle. But if you're using the same kind of ink that isn't a big deal. If you were changing to a different brand or a new color of ink you would want to avoid that.

 

It'll expel that last 1/4th of ink and fill up back to 100%.

[corrsty]

Thanks RevAaron for your help.

 

It will expel the remaining ink into the bottle. But if you're using the same kind of ink that isn't a big deal. If you were changing to a different brand or a new color of ink you would want to avoid that.

 

It'll expel that last 1/4th of ink and fill up back to 100%.

 

[jimk]

I haven't used this filling mechanism yet, but I am trying to understand how it works.

 

What happens if you try this:

 

1) Hold the pen nib up. The ink should run past the plunger, up to where the shaft exits the barrel.

 

2. Slowly pull the knob out, to the point where the plunger just reaches the ink.

 

3. Flip the pen back around so the nib is down and put the nib into a bottle of ink.

 

4. More quickly push the knob back in. Seems like not much ink will be pushed out - most just air will come out, and then ink will come in at the end once the plunger reaches the wider part of the barrel.

 

In my imagination, this seems to work. But reality is so often very different from how I imagine it to work!

[Siv]

The best way to fill this pen is using a Viconti Traveling ink pot thingy. Using this, you get the pen really full without having to dismantle it

 

Since you're refilling, you're probably using the same ink so just do it like you were filling the pen from empty but put a little less ink in the ink pot.

 

PS, make sure you hold the ink pot and the pen firmly as when you push the plunger in, the air going into the inkpot may cause the ink pot to pop off the top spilling the ink all over you hands on onto the white carpet in your bedroom...