Esterbrook Cartridge Pens

[Bill C]

....what's the peril if you use them in a pen minus the spacer, they come loose?

 

I don't use the (fairly hard to find) plastic Esterbrook spacers, even when I have them. I've found that - as I'm basically a pencil guy - a short piece of rubber pencil eraser works just as well as the Esterbrook spacers. In fact, I can get the fit tight as I want (I think that's a beer hall song!) just by using an appropriate length of rubber eraser up behind the cartridge, in the barrel. That virtually assures me that no matter how often I reuse a cartridge, the cartridge will stay firmly in place and most likely not leak while in my pocket. Note this is the same method used by Esterbrook in some of the J series barrels, to fit the Jbar to the longer pen barrels. Of course, YMMV.

- - - Happy reusin', Jim

 

No need to drill a small hole in the eraser correct? Or do you drill a hole in the center of the eraser? I just realized after seeing this thread that my Esterbrook 101 lacks the spacers that surround the yellow nipple on the cart. Thank you kindly.

[Brian Anderson]

I will have to look but I recently found a unique spacer in one of my safari cartridge pens. It was black and looked like a golf tee to rest in the end of the barrel. I had it in my tray of pens to sell, but kept opening it up and seeing it thinking, "Yeah, I need to keep this one." I'll see if I can dig it out and post it here. I had never seen it before so thought it was interesting.

 

Off to do some home renovation (destruction) then will be back on FPN later. Love vacations!

 

Cheers!

Brian

[Brian Anderson]

OK, finally got around to taking this picture. This is a spacer for a Safari pen when using the long cartridge. The cart goes to the left of this.

 

http://www.esterbrook.net/images/safaricartridgespacer.jpg

 

Cheers!

Brian