Refilling a Pilot V-Ball BG 05

[Hephaestus]

A neat trick I thought I’d share… My ball pen of choice is the Pilot B-Ball BG 05- just the other day, I realized that the ink is liquid and you could pull the nib and feed right out of the body of this pen. So I found an empty version, pulled it apart, washed it out, and filled it up with PR Sherwood Green. The pen produced a very faint and dry line initially, so I thought I’d failed. However, this morning, I tried it out again and it writes great! In green! I guess it needed time to saturate the feed...

 

Note that I’ve not tried any other inks and I’ve only written a few pages with this re-filled pen. It may be worth a try though, if you’re into colour!

 

Regards,

-Ryan