Parker 45 Clean Up

[kestrel]

Hey guys, sorry about the impromptu but is there a converter for the Parker 45?

 

All the P45 that I had used cartridges (and I used quite a few pens through elementary school).

 

Thanks

 

Claudio

I just inherited a gold-filled 45 from a friend with a Parker converter inside. I haven't had a chance to play with it much but the converter still pulls water. The inside of the barrel is a mess of whitish metal corrosion so I will have a major cleaning job to do on this one. The nib, a medium, feels good, though.

[Dr_P]

I just inherited a gold-filled 45 from a friend with a Parker converter inside ... The inside of the barrel is a mess ...

Nice but sorry about the barrel. I hope you will be able to repair it.

 

Good to know that converters are (were?) available.

[Patos]

I have just disassembled the 45 again this time removing the nib and cleaning it, it's a 14k nib and in good condition, once I put it back together and refilled the ink it was good to go and started writing very smoothly.I'm not sure if the nib is a medium or a fine is there an easy way too tell?

[Patos]

I have just disassembled the 45 again this time removing the nib and cleaning it, it's a 14k nib and in good condition, once I put it back together and refilled the ink it was good to go and started writing very smoothly.I'm not sure if the nib is a medium or a fine is there an easy way too tell?

Just found the code for the Nibs on the forum it's an xf.

[mirosc]

Hey guys, sorry about the impromptu but is there a converter for the Parker 45?

I use a regular Parker slide converter.

[Vendome]

You can use either of the two Parker ink converters, the basic model, (push / pull) or the deluxe one, (slide).

Of the two, I personally think the deluxe one is the best to use, as with the basic one, you can pull or push too hard and make a mess.

[ac12]

That P45 demonstrator looks cool.

I always wondered what the inside of the section was like, since it does hold a fair amount of ink.

[Dr_P]

You can use either of the two Parker ink converters, the basic model, (push / pull) or the deluxe one, (slide).

Of the two, I personally think the deluxe one is the best to use, as with the basic one, you can pull or push too hard and make a mess.

Thank you!

 

Hummm, I was wondering that the Parker Sonnet can be used with a cartridge or a converter. So I assume that the deluxe converter you are referring to is the modern one and can be used on a P45 ?

 

Claudio

[ac12]

Thank you!

 

Hummm, I was wondering that the Parker Sonnet can be used with a cartridge or a converter. So I assume that the deluxe converter you are referring to is the modern one and can be used on a P45 ?

 

Claudio

 

Yup, I have 2 P45s inked up with screw converters.

[Dr_P]

Great! Thank you.

 

In the meantime, I found both type of converters on the web. The screw one costs about 14$ CAD. I'll be ordering one in the next few days.

[Vendome]

Dr_P

 

Have a shop around for the Parker deluxe screw / twist converter, as on checking an internet currency converter, 14 Canadian dollars is roughly £8, and on Amazon U.K they cost £4.20 with free postage, so that's nearly half the price.

 

The converters are good, but they aren't worth 8 quid.

 

Jason

[Dr_P]

Dr_P

 

Have a shop around for the Parker deluxe screw / twist converter, as on checking an internet currency converter, 14 Canadian dollars is roughly £8, and on Amazon U.K they cost £4.20 with free postage, so that's nearly half the price.

 

The converters are good, but they aren't worth 8 quid.

 

Jason

 

Hi Jason,

 

Thank you very much for the information.

 

Do you know about a disease called PAAD ? PAAD stands for Pen Accesories Adictive Disorder. So, when in my previous post I said "in the next few days" it should be read as "in the next few seconds". I guess, when I wrote the post, I was a click away from ordering from Amazon Canada (at 14$ instead of 4 pounds), so you already know what happened, right?

 

Anyway, thank you again.

 

Claudio

[Vendome]

I also suffer from PAAD as well.

[Hooker56]

That P45 demonstrator looks cool.

I always wondered what the inside of the section was like, since it does hold a fair amount of ink.

Ditto Act & Bruce. I learned to write cursive with 45's in school, have a number of them, however, I never knew the collector was similar to a 51. Wow. Thanks for sharing the picture, Bruce.

 

Learn more every day!

Clayton

[mhosea]

As far as cleaning 45's goes, I will say that this is one of the pens that does a great job of letting water from a bulb syringe squirt right through, leaving ink in the collector if you flush too quickly. Slower flushing where you let the water form drops as it exits the pen does help. I typically give my section a run through the ultrasonic to be sure.

[OcalaFlGuy]

^ + a metric butt load.

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

[welch]

I:

- learned to write cursive with a pencil, because tird graders make mistakes and need to erase

- was ordered to write with with a pen -- meaning a fountain pen in 4th grade. Parents insisted on a Sheaffer school pen (translucent cartridge), which was scratchy. Might have been a fine nib. Parents did not want me filling from a bottle, which they remembered as a spilled-ink risk...incidentally, a ballpoint was not quite a real pen back then.

- got a Parker 45 for my birthday in 1961 and used it through junior high and high school. A great pen that got better after five or six years of constant use.

 

$15 for a P45? That's about the going rate, because people don't know that a 45 is better than a Safari or any under-$50 pen, and probably the equal of any $100 pen on the market. Especially if you happen on a gold nib, which was standard for the first few years.

 

Features: everything unscrews. Get two or three 45s and you'll have spare parts or the ability to create a Pen Collector's Nightmare: Blue barrel, red section, etc. There are always P45 nibs up on EBay. If you get a scratchy nib, any nib-specialist can easily tune it. Take everything apart and the pen cleans easily.

 

By the way, the early 45s had a great squeeze converter. Not aerometric, no matter what an EBay seller might say, but holds a lot of ink. Same converter used on the early P75 and the converter-version of the Parker 61. Parker eventually made their barrels a bit too narrow for the squeezy, so it might not fit a later P45.

[PelikanPilot]

I have a P45 but skips, I watched a video how to disassemble the nib part, but in the video if you push the feeder the nib comes out easy but mine is stock, it might have dried ink that makes it hard to push. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks ahead,

Oscar

[BaronWulfraed]

Ultrasonic cleaner with a solution containing some ammonia and a few drops of Dawn...

[mitto]

Ditto Act & Bruce. I learned to write cursive with 45's in school, have a number of them, however, I never knew the collector was similar to a 51. Wow. Thanks for sharing the picture, Bruce.

 

Learn more every day!

Clayton

 

Two versiins of P45 collectors as well early production thin feed P75 collector disassembled.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/monthly_11_2016/post-117288-0-36817300-1478240966.jpg

Edited October 29, 2018 by mitto