Cartridges

[Alan1968]

Apologies if this is a stupid question but i have just dug out my cross townsend pen, last used about 15 years ago. It takes cartridges, that are apparently not even available on the Cross shop website! I have checked.

 

As for cartridges, do cartridges come in any kind of industry standard dimensions...? Or is it only a matter of long cartridges and short cartridges.... or how does it work?

 

From memory mine took shortish ones, but what width etc must they be?

 

And if i cannot find a cross supplier how do I find cartridges that will go in? Even cross doesnt sell them.

I have ordered a converter to make it a suck-up fountain pen (whatever they are called) so I can get around the issue if necessary, but I prefer cartridges as they are less messy.

 

I am also trying to find Peacock Blue to no avail but maybe the Edelstein Aquamarine will do.

 

Thank you for any light you can shed.

Edited December 23, 2016 by Alan1968

[Sailor Kenshin]

Cross fountain pens use their own proprietary cartridges, and even Amazon USA sells them. I got my last batch at a stationery store. I don't get that Cross doesn't sell their own cartridges?

 

Just one of many sources...

 

Good luck.

Edited December 23, 2016 by Sailor Kenshin

[Alan1968]

Thank you very much.

Yes it is incredible that they don't stock their own cartridges for their own current range of pens.

Utterly incredible.

Do you know what size the cartridges are (width or length or mls or whatever they use to sell these things).......for ordering purposes? Cross did several sizes of cartridge I believe.......

 

Thanks in advance

Alan

Edited December 23, 2016 by Alan1968

[Sailor Kenshin]

Thank you very much.

Yes it is incredible that they don't stock their own cartridges for their own current range of pens.

Utterly incredible.

Do you know what size the cartridges are (width or length or mls or whatever they use to sell these things).......for ordering purposes? Cross did several sizes of cartridge I believe.......

 

Thanks in advance

Alan

 

If the cartridge has one 'step,' then it's probably what they call their Slim. Two 'steps,' it's the regular. That's the kind I have. As seen here...

 

You are in the UK? What about Bertram's Inkwell?

[abstract49]

I only ever saw one Cross - proprietary - cartridge style. It was about the only fp cartridge readily available in Office Depot, Office Max, and Staples, in their various locations in Texas. Since I put converters into my Century and Townsend pens many years ago, I've had no reason to do any further inquiry. I have a number of converters in various styles, and I have never found one to fit a Cross fp other than their own.

[Alan1968]

The problem is that i don't have an old existing cartridge in the pen. It has been in storage for years without any cartridge. Thus I have no visual clues at all as to whether it is one step two step or three step or width or length requirements etc.

[Sailor Kenshin]

I hope your converter fits. Maybe someone who owns the same model could tell you more.

 

Older thread.

 

Fountain pen refill guide.

 

A UK pen shop.

Edited December 24, 2016 by Sailor Kenshin

[Jerome Tarshis]

The original posting strikes me as extremely odd. Cross does sell cartridges on what I think of as its own Web site. That is www.cross.com.

 

One has only to go to that Web site, click on Refills, and find a clear choice between ink in a bottle and ink in cartridges, which are differentiated as "slim" cartridges, defined as being for the Spire and the Century Classic or whatever is the phrase for the new Spire, and "ink" cartridges, those being the normal size, fitting every other model, including the Townsend.

 

Yes, there are other online sources for those cartridges. They are also sold in shops. Many of life's problems have no satisfactory solutions. Buying ordinary Cross cartridges, from Cross itself or from a different seller, is not one of those problems.

Edited December 24, 2016 by Jerome Tarshis

[Alan1968]

I agree it is odd but you can see here for yourself:

 

http://www.cross.com/en/GB/refills/shop-all-pen-and-pencil-refills/writing-type/fountain-pens.aspx

 

I also contacted Cross who said they were no longer selling them.

[Sailor Kenshin]

Let us know if the converter you ordered fits. That should solve things, unless someone has some Cross carts and is willing to send you a few.

[Jerome Tarshis]

If a quarter of the world were still colored red on the map, Cross might still be selling cartridges on its British Web site. Alas, it is not, I concede.

 

On the other side of the globe, however:

 

http://www.cross.com/refills/shop-all-pen-and-pencil-refills/by-writing-type/fountain-pen.aspx

 

So I suppose we are both right, each from a different national perspective. Good luck with those retailers, not to mention the converter.

[adamselene]

The 8920, 8921and 8924, which are listed in the third groupin,g after the "slim" carts, are for the Townsend.

 

I agree it is odd but you can see here for yourself:

 

http://www.cross.com/en/GB/refills/shop-all-pen-and-pencil-refills/writing-type/fountain-pens.aspx

 

I also contacted Cross who said they were no longer selling them.