Ink Capacities

[RLTodd]

Is a Waterman cartridge the same as an International Long cartridge?

 

Yes.

 

That makes sense, then. I have always thought the Waterman cartridges are huge, and the OP has provided some confirmation.

 

Kind of puts the lie to that claim that piston fillers always hold more ink than cc pens.

 

And two small international cartridges hold about the same amount of ink and offer the advantage of having that ready reserve as well as carrying an heir and a spare in your pocket.

 

Everytime one of these capacity threads starts an image flashes in my mind. It is of a 100 pack of 0.7ml International Short Cartridges in the small pocket of the knapsack. Or, two five packs totaling 7.0ml in the briefcase.

[jar]

Is a Waterman cartridge the same as an International Long cartridge?

 

Yes.

 

That makes sense, then. I have always thought the Waterman cartridges are huge, and the OP has provided some confirmation.

 

Kind of puts the lie to that claim that piston fillers always hold more ink than cc pens.

 

And two small international cartridges hold about the same amount of ink and offer the advantage of having that ready reserve as well as carrying an heir and a spare in your pocket.

 

Everytime one of these capacity threads starts an image flashes in my mind. It is of a 100 pack of 0.7ml International Short Cartridges in the small pocket of the knapsack. Or, two five packs totaling 7.0ml in the briefcase.

 

It's really hard to beat the cartridge for convenience and capacity.

[rockspyder]

Update, after cleaning two Visconti's this evening:

 

MB Kafka: 0.88

MB Hemingway: 1.26

MB Dumas: 1.26

MB Twain: 1.35

MB Lennon: 1.39

MB Shaw: 1.48

MB 149: 1.60

 

Parker slide converter: 0.60

Standard converter: 0.75

International short: 0.87

Sheaffer slim: 1.20

Parker: 1.47

Sheaffer standard: 1.50

International long: 1.66

 

Double reservoir powerfiller Visconti's:

Titanium skeleton: 2.35

Wall street LE: 2.60

[Bo Bo Olson]

Pelikan pen ink capacity

 

Modern 200/400 : piston bore 8.2mm, piston stroke 24.5mm, potential ink volume:1.29 ml

Modern 600 : piston bore 8.2mm, piston stroke 26 mm, potential ink volume:. 1.37 ml

Modern 800 : piston bore 8.2mm, piston stroke 26 mm , potential ink volume: 1.37 ml

Modern1000: piston bore 8.2mm, piston stroke 28 mm , potential ink volume: 1.47 ml

Vintage 400NN : piston bore 9.0 mm, piston stroke 31 mm , potential ink volume: 1.97 ml

 

Just to get some more Piston filler's volume here.

 

Thanks for the info on the basic cartridge size. So it looks like all I can complain about then with the Modern C/C pens is the lousy nib and that none are made in Standard, although I can live with medium large, just as well. I'm not into Large pens right now, in I like to post.

 

Of course I'm not perfectly thrilled by the modern nib, but that's why I have so few, and seldom have an interest in the modern pens.

 

I have about 40 piston pens.

My Modern Woolf springy nib sits at #12, my vintage MB 234 1/2 Deluxe ('52-55 only, and mine is a '55) has a superb semi-flex KOB. That and the girth and back weighting makes that standard pen my # 1. It is for me one of my three perfectly balanced pens too.

My Large volume maxi-semi-flex/'flexi' OF Pelikan 400NN (the length of a model 605, but thinner) is # 2, more for it's nib than it's large volume; well balanced but not perfect by a hair. My number # 3 pen, which is perfectly balanced slightly different holds less because it is thinner, a Geha 725 semi-flex M.

My other for me perfectly balanced pen is a silver P-75, the lightest of all the metal pens I've had. Some day I'll get a flexier nib for it and it will move up my best pen list.

 

I don't have off hand the amount of ink in an Esterbrook DJ holds, or other filling systems like the Vacumatic.

I have read that the Snorkel had a lesser amount of ink.

 

Does any one know which MB size the thick medium large Woolf is closest too?

 

How much ink does a Lamy cartridge hold?

Edited July 21, 2011 by Bo Bo Olson