Gel refill Inplace for Parker

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Found ou tthe Most of the Gel refill like G2 body is much longer that that of a Parker refill. So if one wanted to use Gel refill in a Parker designed kit , what , who's Gel fill will fit or do you just shorten the Gel fill body..Problem with that is your customer may not know how to shorted refill. Suggestions!!
 
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Parker makes a gel refill. Haven't used it myself so I can't vouch for it but it is a Parker branded refill.
 

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I've had excellent luck with the Monteverde Parker style gel refills. Bad luck with Unibene (some no name brand I found on Amazon). I haven't tried the Parker branded ones.

Edit: FWIW, I recently got converted to the Schmidt EasyFlow 9000 refills, which are Parker style. They're a ballpoint rather than a gel, but they're so ridiculously smooth that I prefer them to gel now.
 
Did a little research on Parker style refill length. Most are 97.5MM where the Gel refill are 110.6MM length. However the Schmidt 9000M length is 98.00 and like Andrew says they write just as good as a gel.
Made trip to Office max and found. Parker Quick Gel OL 98.1 so it fit well in a kit made for std Parker roller ball. Have some Schmidt 9000m coming to see what write best. One think for sure Parker is way more costly and Schmidt.
 
I've been using these Unibene Gel Refills daily for a couple years now and have been pretty happy with them. I will occasionally put my daily writer in the hands of a customer that wants a ballpoint that writes like a roller ball and they almost always upgrade the ink to this and buy the ballpoint.
 
woodwzrd said:
I've been using these Unibene Gel Refills daily for a couple years now and have been pretty happy with them. I will occasionally put my daily writer in the hands of a customer that wants a ballpoint that writes like a roller ball and they almost always upgrade the ink to this and buy the ballpoint.
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Interesting, you must have gotten a better batch than I did. Mine are skippy and inconsistent, basically unusable. Which is weird, because the same brand Unibene makes Cross style ballpoint refills that I put into all of my slimlines, and they're a noticeable upgrade over the ones that come in the kit.
 
BHuij said:
Interesting, you must have gotten a better batch than I did. Mine are skippy and inconsistent, basically unusable. Which is weird, because the same brand Unibene makes Cross style ballpoint refills that I put into all of my slimlines, and they're a noticeable upgrade over the ones that come in the kit.
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That is quite interesting. I think in the last year I have gone through 4 of the combo packs I linked and they have all written very nice. I have personally use at least four blue refills in the last year with no issues. That is good to know about their Cross style refills. I'll have to give them a try.
 
I wonder if it might be that they just don't agree with the papers I prefer. When I got into fountain pens years ago, I became kind of a paper snob. So now I'm usually using Rhodia, Iroful, or Midori MD, all of which tend to be significantly smoother than your average copy or notebook paper. These Unibene gel refills seem to skate around without leaving a mark a lot, particularly on the Rhodia.

*Shrug* In any case, the Monteverde refills work great when I want gel, which isn't often these days anyway. I believe I have also modified a G2 refill to fit in a single-tube Parker refill-taking pen in the past as well.
 
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