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On 2026-03-31, Carlos E.R. wrote:

> On 2026-03-31 08:00, Nuno Silva wrote:
>> On 2026-03-31, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/30/26 21:40, rbowman wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:49:06 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 	Can but agree.  I grew up with the older style desk in all my
>>>> schools
>>>>> and am grateful because I took lots of notes.  But curiously in the
>>>>> 1940s there were no ballpoint pens or other modern writing tools so the
>>>>> groove held a terrible old pen and the round hole, an inkwell. Pencils
>>>>> were used to practice writing on lined paper that was rather fllimsy and
>>>>> we practiced with pens and used fountain pens at home to write our final
>>>>> drafts.
>>>>
>>>> I can't remember what we used but it wasn't the inkwells. At some point I
>>>> had an inexpensive cartridge fountain pen. I cut costs further by using a
>>>> syringe to refill the cartridges from my mother's bottle of ink. I vaguely
>>>> recall the ones with an internal bladder and a lever on the side.
>>
>> IIRC that's called a "converter", but I'm not sure if that's
>> Parker-specific parlance or the generic name for it.
>
> Modern fountain pens may come with both methods. But I prefer to
> refill cartridges with a syringe, wastes less ink at each refill.

Yeah, no complaints here. It was at least more convenient too. Now
perhaps having a *lid* for cartridges would have been nice too, so I
could just re-fill several and take them with me :-)

>>> 	We used the cartridge pens as well. The fountain pen bladder
>>> gets stiff with
>>> age and lack of use.  I am not sure we did the trick with refilling
>>> the cartridges
>>> but believe I did.  Used pens through the Navy years for charting notes and
>>> filling out forms that did not need to be typed.
>>
>> I did the refilling one too to some extent, as the converter couldn't
>> hold that much ink, and going through cartridges wasn't cheap (perhaps
>> especially if these were not international standard...).
>>
>> http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/post-120277-0-77222500-1424011434.jpg
>
> I know #1 and #10. My current pen uses #10. I think I have see #11

Here I think all cartridges I've used have been either 1 or 10. I don't
think I've ever seen 9, although I've used some pens where it'd fit
(actually I think I've only used one small enough where 9 *wouldn't*
fit, being the exception?).

-- 
Nuno Silva

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