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My favorite non-fountain pen is the superb Cross Selectip rollerball. Sadly, all but one of the Cross pens that take this refill (and I've got a BUNCH) require you to uncap it to use it. Only the diminutive Cross Click, which is too small for my hand, operates without a cap. Since I'm looking for a pocket pen I can operate with one hand - either push-button or twist - I'm out of luck. Does anyone else make a high quality pocket pen that will take a Cross Selectip rollerball refill?

I tried searching for an answer to this and couldn't, so I hope this isn't a repeat thread. I was playing around with my Selectip RB, trying to decide if I could open up the cartridge and refill it myself with fountain pen ink. The gel ink is... not the best. It takes forever to dry, and seems to skip a lot when I use the pen. At any rate, I discovered you can pull the very tip of the refill off easily (and got covered in ink in the process), but I was wondering if anyone else has tried, and how exactly would you get the gel ink out of such a narrow opening? I've yet to get an ink syringe, but it looks like one would fit in to actually do the refilling bit, but I'm at a loss at how to go about getting the gel ink out, other than just writing it empty. Maybe using a syringe to add water, soak, shake it around a bit and suck it back out? These refills are pretty expensive as single units, do-able as two-packs, but at the price, I'd rather get a disposable fountain pen! I actually got this pen (an ATX in Solstice Yellow) to convert into a fountain pen, but I may just go ahead and try to empty/refill the cartridge myself anyway for curiosity's sake. I just had to ask if anyone else out there has tried! Have you? Did it work? What did you do?