Problem with refills

[Irish Pat]

Does anyone have problems with the refill that fits the Sierra pen kit.I bought a few kits from a guy but it seems to me that his plain refill(no name on them) fit ok but my refills that I use like the SCHMIDT P900 will not.Any ideas please.

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[mredburn]

where is it hanging up at. Usually if your refill has a sticker around it thats were its hanging up at.

 

[Irish Pat]

Sorry I don't know what you mean

 

[Smitty37]

Does anyone have problems with the refill that fits the Sierra pen kit.I bought a few kits from a guy but it seems to me that his plain refill(no name on them) fit ok but my refills that I use like the SCHMIDT P900 will not.Any ideas please.

www.etsy.com/shop/PatsHandcraftedPens

That is not terribly uncommon Pat, if it is hanging at the tip it usually means the Schmidt refill tip section is a tiny bit larger than the stock refills shipped with the kits. the easy fix is to take a drill bit of appropriate size and ream the hole in the tip by hand. That usually fixes the problem... Also some Schmidt refills using private reserve ink had a tape label on the body of the refill, that tape caused the refill body to be a tad too large and caused hanging up-- removing the tape usually fixed the problem. I haven't seen refills with the tape for quite awhile.

 

[Sylvanite]

the easy fix is to take a drill bit of appropriate size and ream the hole in the tip by hand.

That would be a #38 bit.

Some of the gel-ink refills also have slightly larger diameter tips than the kit refills. The #38 bit will accommodate those as well.

 

[Smitty37]

the easy fix is to take a drill bit of appropriate size and ream the hole in the tip by hand.

That would be a #38 bit.

Some of the gel-ink refills also have slightly larger diameter tips than the kit refills. The #38 bit will accommodate those as well.

Good show Erik, I was too darned lazy to get off my butt and go check.

 

[jrc]

I only use the chrome in the sierra kits and sometimes the nib hole has a build up of the chrome plating so I take a small drill bit and work it in and out of the hole.