Preppy Plus Platinum Converter - What Cartridges Fit?

[LittleSkink]

Ordered a couple of Preppy's for the kids with a box of 10 cartridges (that cost almost as much as the pens)

 

Figure it they like them I will get the little adaptor thingy:

http://www.cultpens.com/i/q/PT21607/platinum-international-adapter

 

Can anyone clarify if full size cartridges will fit after conversion or do they need to be the smaller ones?

[jar]

Ordered a couple of Preppy's for the kids with a box of 10 cartridges (that cost almost as much as the pens)

 

Figure it they like them I will get the little adaptor thingy:

http://www.cultpens.com/i/q/PT21607/platinum-international-adapter

 

Can anyone clarify if full size cartridges will fit after conversion or do they need to be the smaller ones?

Usually just the small ones. The adapter adds just enough length to make the long cartridges and converters TOO BIG! Even in my Izumos and Nakayas it's a no go.

Edited December 5, 2016 by jar

[benbot517]

I wonder if a mini converter, like those offered by Monteverde or Kaweco, would fit with the adapter.

[Flounder]

A while back I was warned by a retailer that the Preppy specifically doesn't do well with the Platinum international adaptor.

[SpecTP]

standard platinum converter works fine with it. just checked it.

 

 

 

 

[Pichak]

When I bought a Preppy, there is a adapter for standard international cartridge/converter came with the pen (in the barrel). The adapter works well with both short and long international cartridge and also the converter.

 

The link below is my VDO review. I know you can not understand Thai but may be you can take a look the writing sample of Preppy with standard cartridge (08:50).

 

[LittleSkink]

thanks folks - did some digging and there is definitely some confusion in the UK over this point

 

In particular Cult Pens and Tiger Pens say different stuff, though the latter has a clearer view of what works and why - ie UK used to be supplied with modified Preppys that could take international carts, current UK supply seems to be unfettered and will take Platinum carts and Platinum converter but need a plastic noggin to take international carts/converters

 

I ended up getting a syringe from Writing Desk and just refill the cartridges manually - quick, easy and cheap

[sandy101]

Staples UK sells a bag of 50 ink cartridges for £1.50, and Smiths ink cartridges work fine too - and you can get then in bags. You usually get a discount if you buy two. There's blue, black - and an assortment which includes turquoise, pink and violet.

[LittleSkink]

thanks sandy101

 

Cult Pens had the Preppy converters in when I got my last order so I have a couple - reckon I will use on to convert their black Preppys to international carts as my kids are burning through Platinum ones - at near £5 for 10 it adds up fast

 

I dont see the Staples ones on their website but see WHSMiths do 60 small black for £4, if the ink is decent I will give them a go - my next best alternative is Diamine carts at £4 for 18 but their blacks seem to dry slowly, which is not okay for school use

[the_gasman]

standard platinum converter works fine with it. just checked it.

 

I always use my Preppies (is that the correct plural!) with the converter. I'm using Pelikan Edelstein Mandarin at the mo, which looks cool through the clear barrel. I don't use it more then every few months but that slip-and-seal cap certainly works – I don't get dry starts after disuse.

 

I bought pen(s) and converter(s) through Cult Pens: the advice that the Preppy isn't compatible with the Platinum converter merely made me want to find out if it was true!

 

With characteristic impetuosity, I bought several converters so, LittleSkink, if you want to try one before you commit to buying, just ping me your address in a PM.

 

Cheers,

David.

[the_gasman]

PS: By converters, I meant the piston converters to fill from bottled ink, not the adapter that allows use of international cartridges. I suppose that that was obvious from the context but my OCD wouldn't let me escape without clarification.

 

PPS: I'm impressed that your kids take FPs to school. I bought a Lamy Nexx for my 13 year old. She loved it, so I bought a Parker Slimfold from Ebay. She used the Nexx for school and the Slimfold for homework. I'm sorry to spoil a happy tale but I now notice that they are now both clogging up their channels with unused black ink – the gel-pen curse has struck. I also suspect that being an outlier in her choice of pen had attracted upsetting ribaldry from less appreciative fellow pupils (that's my polite description of them!).

 

Cheers,

David.

[LittleSkink]

thanks folks - unable to edit my previous msg, and now see it is unclear and thanks the_gasman for your kind offer

 

To clarify I have bought some little Platinum "adaptor thingies" that allow an international cart/converter to fit a UK Preppy. I have NOT bought some Platinum converters for the Preppys

 

Given Platinum carts are about £4.50 for 10 I was just after a more economic ink supply - hopefully off to get some WHSmith ones sandy101 mentions tomorrow . . .

 

My kids are 8 and 10 have their pen licence at school (yeah I didnt know there was such a thing either - and they both go to different schools so it clearly is more common than I thought). They found having pre-filled cartridges work best for them, so they can re-charge the pen at school when they need to without needing to carry spare pens. Syringe filling at home when they were nearly out of ink just didnt work as an approach as they often ran out at school - even though I/they prefer it from an ecological point of view

 

The choice of Preppy for school was a pragmatic one but it seems to have interested the other kids at school - they seem to think the see through pens are cool - sorry to hear your experience was otherwise, kids are funny things. Only had a couple of bent nibs so far, and they both bent back well enough - for £3 a pen, the odd dead (or lost/pinched) pen isnt the end of the world

 

At home they have their own Lamy Safaris but one seems to prefer my chunky Jinhaos (usually with Shimmertastic inks in) and the other pinches my TWSBI 1.1 or Lamy Pur 1.1 to do "pretty writing" - they know what they like. And to think it all started because I wanted to help improve their hand writing

Edited February 9, 2017 by LittleSkink

[the_gasman]

LittleSkink,

 

In my "PS", I was chastising myself for being too cursory in my reading (another characteristic attribute, I'm afraid), rather than aiming any accusation at yourself. I don't suppose that there is an emoji for "double embarrassed". Sorry.

 

And to think it all started because I wanted to help improve their hand writing

 

Did it work?

 

When reviewing our three children's handwriting, I always had to repress my emotions. It always infuriated me that they would write without steadying the page with their non-writing hand. Our son, our oldest, was an especial challenge as he didn't seem able to keep his writing on the lines (OCD alert). One day, as I was walking past his bedroom, I suddenly realised why – as he was doing his homework (another shock), he was leaning as far back on his chair as was physically possible without falling off. His writing would start off on the lines but, as his script progressed to the right-hand side of the page, he didn't alter his posture, resulting in writing that slipped below the lines as it followed the arc of his arm. Kids!

 

I used to implore him to make his writing look like a work of art, as I believe that part of the purpose of handwriting is to draw the reader irrestistibly into reading what is written. When he started secondary school, he accused me of conniving with his English master. The teacher in question had made the pupils paste a printed set of standards in his exercise book, the first line of which was, "Write as neatly as possible: the script should be a work of art which attracts the reader".

 

Sorry to go off-topic but I thought you might be mildly amused.

 

David.