Large reservoir fountain pen recommendations?

I'm glad you liked the Wality. Nothing like unwrapping a new pen. It's just
like Christmas every time. Silicon grease is available at
http://www.tryphon.it/catalogo.htm .

Gordon

John B. Egger wrote:


This pen came with a large plastic "eyedropper." Is the pen intended to
be filled fully with one fill of the eyedropper? (Ignoring my wife's
advice to just put in a little (to see if it leaked), I squeezed in as
much ink as possible, about 1.3 droppers full. It turned out that was
too much, and when I screwed the pen together some flowed out. Live and
learn... maybe...)

Update/correction: The pen has a capacity of 4.5ml, and I just found
small marks on the eyedropper indicating 0.5ml (halfway up the tube) and
1.0 ml (just up from the base of the bulb). So I must have filled the
eyedropper a couple of times, plus a little. One filling of the
eyedropper could not have drawn in much more than, say, 2 ml.

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BL wrote:
Gordon Mattingly wrote:


Try here for inexpensive piston and eyedropper
fillers. Wality of India. http://www.retrodesk.com/



Thanks Gordon. Holy Toledo! 4.5 cc of ink in their big eyedroppers.
That's like 6x the capacity of an average cartridge (@ .75 cc). Wonder
how the pens write? -- B


BL, that's 4.5ml, not 4.5cc. It's been a while since my chemistry
classes but visualizing a cube one centimeter on a side, then three and
a half more of them... that's far too much ink even for the oversized
Wality!

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John B. Egger wrote:

BL, that's 4.5ml, not 4.5cc. It's been a while
since my chemistry classes but visualizing a cube
one centimeter on a side, then three and a half
more of them... that's far too much ink even for
the oversized Wality!

Hi John... A few years ago I used an insulin syringe to measure the
ink capacity of different pens (new and old Pelikans, Aurora Optima,
and OMASes) and converters and posted my results here on acpp. The
syringe was marked in cubic centimeters which I'd always thought were
the equivalent of milliliters (i.e., 1 cc = 1 ml).
-- B

BL wrote:
John B. Egger wrote:

BL, that's 4.5ml, not 4.5cc. It's been a while
since my chemistry classes but visualizing a cube
one centimeter on a side, then three and a half
more of them... that's far too much ink even for
the oversized Wality!

Hi John... A few years ago I used an insulin syringe to measure the
ink capacity of different pens... The
syringe was marked in cubic centimeters which I'd always thought were
the equivalent of milliliters (i.e., 1 cc = 1 ml).
-- B

1 cc = 1 ml, and for what it's worth, with water that volume weighs (or has
a mass of) 1 g.

Brian
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BL wrote:
John B. Egger wrote:


BL, that's 4.5ml, not 4.5cc. It's been a while
since my chemistry classes but visualizing a cube
one centimeter on a side, then three and a half
more of them... that's far too much ink even for
the oversized Wality!


Hi John... A few years ago I used an insulin syringe to measure the
ink capacity of different pens (new and old Pelikans, Aurora Optima,
and OMASes) and converters and posted my results here on acpp. The
syringe was marked in cubic centimeters which I'd always thought were
the equivalent of milliliters (i.e., 1 cc = 1 ml).
-- B


Rats! I thought I cancelled that post before anyone saw it! It has,
indeed, been too long since I studied chemistry... 1cc = 1ml, indeed...

Sorry!

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Brian Ketterling wrote:
1 cc = 1 ml, and for what it's worth, with water that volume weighs (or has
a mass of) 1 g.

Wait, but isn't that only at a certain degree Celsius? ;^)

In any event, whatever the Lamy holds is barely, as Jon noted, worth
bothering with. Looking forward to 4.5 cc, regardless of temp.

Ruffin Bailey

wrote:
Brian Ketterling wrote:
1 cc = 1 ml, and for what it's worth, with water that volume weighs (or
has a mass of) 1 g.

Wait, but isn't that only at a certain degree Celsius? ;^)

I do believe you're right, and probably not a temperature your pen will
operate at.

In any event, whatever the Lamy holds is barely, as Jon noted, worth
bothering with. Looking forward to 4.5 cc, regardless of temp.

Post back about your experience. I've eyeballed Wality/Airmail(?) pens, and
wondered how they write.

Brian
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wrote:
Brian Ketterling wrote:
1 cc = 1 ml, and for what it's worth, with water that volume weighs (or has
a mass of) 1 g.

Wait, but isn't that only at a certain degree Celsius? ;^)


Yes, it's at STP (Standard Temperature and Pressure). Memory is
uncertain, but I think the temp. is 20 degrees Centigrade and
pressure is sea level. And if memory serves further, the 1 cc = 1 ml
(and the 1 g) is for water only at STP.

"Gordon Mattingly" wrote in message
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Try here for inexpensive piston and eyedropper fillers. Wality of
India.
http://www.retrodesk.com/

Gordon Mattingly

It seems they know of only one nib size..... fine point
Disappointing.
-LarryW