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Old Sheaffer Ballpoint refill- Help!!
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I recently bought a very nice, almost unused, Sheaffer set with a FP (looks like a balance with lever) very nice looking with a gold dot in the clip, a ballpoint and a pencil. It looks like it's from the 40s or 50s. I will be restoring the FP soon, but I wanted to see if I could find a refill for the ballpoint. I took a picture of the one in the pen right now. You can see it at: http://www.eih.com/pix/sheaffer_bp.jpg The refill has W.A. SHEAFFER PEN CO FORT MADISON, IA written on it. Do you know where I can find a refill like that? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Elias |
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From: Hi. I recently bought a very nice, almost unused, Sheaffer set with a FP (looks like a balance with lever) very nice looking with a gold dot in the clip, a ballpoint and a pencil. It looks like it's from the 40s or 50s. I will be restoring the FP soon, but I wanted to see if I could find a refill for the ballpoint. I took a picture of the one in the pen right now. You can see it at: The refill has W.A. SHEAFFER PEN CO FORT MADISON, IA written on it. Do you know where I can find a refill like that? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Elias RAClifford wrote: Bad news Elias, you cannot find these anymore. I have a 14K gold version of your pen, and alas. On the other hand, someone on one of the newsgroups taught me to make a converter using a regular bp refill, but I dont recall who. The only problem is the tip doesn't look right, as modern bp refills are small, and your refill has a large ball end. Actually, not such bad news at all since now there is an easy solution to making the old Sheaffer BPs that took the big aluminum refills work again - it's acalled a Sheaffer Widget and these were tooled after an original piece that Sheaffer designed back in the 1950s. You screw the brass widget into the end of the pen, drop in a current production Sheaffer BP refill, put a spring on back end and you're all set. Couple extra steps if it's the push/twist early Stratowriter series, but still do-able. We have these available on the website with instructions or email me if you need info. Good Collecting! Sam -- Diamine L.E. Tropical Blue - Email to reserve! http://www.pendemonium.com |
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