Pen Sacs - Other Uses!

Aside from using pen sacs as their intended purpose, they have a few other useful alternative purposes as well!

Use a rubber sac to oxidize your sterling silver pens in recessed areas, the Parker 75 sterling cisele pen is a good example. The rubber sac and the gas it produces is a slow way to oxidize sterling silver. This is much easier and controllable than getting the pen completely black with liver of sulfur solution.

A #22 sac is a snug fit, but can be worked on around the cap and/or barrel of a 75 FP or RB, easy fit for BP or MP. The #23 1/2N sac slides over the FP & RB easiest, BUT, the neck of the sac has to be trimmed off first so it will fit. The 22 sacs are about 3 inches long, so one on each end of pen fits over FP, RB, BP or MP. The 23 1/2N when cut is only 2.25 inches, so it would take 3 of them to completely cover any instrument, the one in the center would need to be cut open at both ends.

While totally non-pen related, the smaller sized sacs, usually #10, #12 and #14 are used by model airplane enthusiasts for fuel tanks!

Da Book - Guide to Fountain Pen Repairs

Eversharp Service Manual 1937

Amodex

We're convinced that Amodex was made especially for people who must fiddle with pens. Amodex will get out all of the self inflicted ink stains on your fingers and your clothes when you have finished repairing your pen! Amodex will also take care of all those accidental ink stains that look like Rorschach tests on your pocket!
Specially formulated to remove ink and other stains from skin, fabric & many other surfaces. Non-toxic, contains lanolin. Amodex is a soap, not a solvent.

Handy to have around whether you are doing repairs or just writing a letter! High grade 110LB absorbent blotting in white, each sheet measures 4 x 9 inches. This is not the flimsy cardboard-like paper some people are passing off as blotting paper these days!

Click Here for Pencil Leads

We have moved the pencil leads you used to find right here to our new Pencil Leads page, which is part of our Inks and Refills section. Check out this section which has bottled inks, cartridges, ballpoint and roller ball refills and those leads you came looking for!

SHEAFFER BALLPOINT WIDGET

Turn your early Sheaffer ballpens into
working pens again!

Photo of original style Sheaffer Stratowriter ballpoint pen refill. If your Sheaffer ballpoint has one of these inside, then you can use the handy Widget to retrofit your pen to use current Sheaffer ballpoint pen refills!

Early Sheaffer ballpoint pens used a large aluminum tube cartridge that was discontinued in the early 1950s. For a short period of time, Sheaffer made brass adaptors so that the current style BP refills could be used. Those ran out years ago and there was no way to retrofit the older Sheaffer Ballpens with a new refill.

We now have newly made solid brass Sheaffer BP widgets so you can turn your older BPs into working pens again. Remove the old BP tube cartridge, screw in one of the brass widgets, add a spring in end of barrel and use a current production Sheaffer BP refill. It's that simple! What could be better than using a 1940s vintage BP?

NOTE: Info below on using the Sheaffer widget in a Stratowriter:

The old Sheaffer Sratowriter ballpoints are a little trickier to turn into working ballpoints again, but with some minor modification to a current production Sheaffer ballpoint refill, it can be done.

The little blue top piece on the top of the current Sheaffer BP refill is just a tad too small and gets hung up in the mechanism of the Stratowriter inside the clicker button. However, the blue flat piece on the previous black plastic style refills works perfectly.

If you get a Sheaffer BP widget for your Stratowriter, you will need one of the old black plastic refills with the flat blue top piece. Then, just remember to pull the blue piece off the plastic refill and replace the one on a new metal refill for your Stratowriter.

Panache Calligraphy Nib Units

New old stock nib units for Panache Calligraphy Pen.

Airotyp Spanish FP Nibs

Airotyp (Spain) Steel FP nib with polished steel finish, marked: Inoxidable BB 1147, double broad folded tip (no iridium), measures 27mm in length, 9mm wide at shoulders.