HELP! I need a fountain pen with a BIG ink reservoir...

[Jess Ting]

I love fountain pens. Because of the nature of my job, I am "in the field"
and away from my desk 90% of the day. All I do is write handwritten notes
all day long. It is incredibly annoying to run out of ink in the middle of
the day, far away from my desk and my bottle of ink.

Therefore, I am looking for a FP (preferably cheap) with the largest,
longest-lasting reservoir.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

JT

[Giovanni Abrate]

Get a Recife eyedropper pen: huge reservoir and low price.

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[fdu...@aol.com]

Your request makes little sense if you think about it. Its like saying
you drive a lot so you want a large gas tank. Get a Mac truck??? You
want a pen that writes the most words between filling. That can be
VERY different from large ink capacity. With the same aprox ink flow and
nib type the Parker 51 aero fill pen writes longer than the vast
majority of pens (in fact longer than any pen I've ever tested) between
fillings tested against pens also having about the same flow and nib
style. Even compared against pens holding 3-4 times more ink. Why is
all explained in the very first page or two of Da Book which also
contains ink capacity tests of some famous pens. Frank

[fdu...@aol.com]

fdu...@aol.com wrote:
Why is
> all explained in the very first page or two of Da Book which also
> contains ink capacity tests of some famous pens. Frank

Wow! Shame on me. I mean it conatins WORD capacity tests. Frank

[BLandolf]

Good suggestion. Also consider a Senator Windsor piston filler for
about $20. See Chuck Swisher's site:

http://www.swisherpens.com/index.html

(click on "Shop Online," then click on "Specials," then click on
"Senator.")

Vintage Pelikan 100Ns hold a huge volume of ink, but they're not
cheap.

Stick with extra fine or fine nibs if possible.

Bernadette

"Giovanni Abrate" wrote:

> Get a Recife eyedropper pen: huge reservoir and low price.
>

[Erik Asgeirsson]

I can go for two to three days of fairly heavy writing with my Pelikan 800.
I think the 400 has a similar size ink reservoir, and it's cheaper, too.

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[Reuben S. Pitts III]

Pens that use "bottle only" ink, tend to hold more ink than convertor types.
I find that some of my pens use more ink than others even if they hold a lot.
Of my pens, the three that seem to write the longest are Omas Paragon, Aurora
Optima, and Pelikan 800. They all last at least a day with lots of writing.
Of course, as I'm sure others will point out, the nib and feed adjustment are
critical factors in how fast the pens use ink.

Reuben

[Tim McNamara]

A Parker 51 aerometric-filler will write for me all day with ink to
spare; I might write 15 (8.5 x 11) pages in a day, occasionally more.
My Pelikan 400 also has ample writing capacity for this.

[Giovanni Abrate]

Bernadette,
I agree. THe Senators are great pens for the money!
Giovanni

"BLandolf" <bl...@toad.net> wrote in message
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> Also consider a Senator Windsor piston filler for
> about $20. See Chuck Swisher's site:
>
> http://www.swisherpens.com/index.html
>

>> Bernadette
>
>

[Nancy Handy]

Jess Ting <ting...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>It is incredibly annoying to run out of ink in the middle of
> the day, far away from my desk and my bottle of ink.

At one of the mountaineering sports stores (I think it's called EMI), I
bought a short little plastic screw top bottle that was probably made to
hold vitamins on short trips, but I use it to hold several ink
fillings-worth. The opening is wide enough to dip my fattest pen for
fillings. If I'm using a cartridge pen, I dip a wide bent needled dental
syringe that I got from my dentist to fill the cartridge. I store the
ink and a cloth (to mop up excess ink) in a zip lock baggie. It travels
better than my Visconti traveling ink carrier.

This way I get to travel with my choice of pens, and I don't have to
search for high ink capacity pens that don't write as well as my
favorites. Why settle for less when you can take your favorite pens and
fill them in a nanosecond?

Nancy

[William Bruce]

"Your request makes little sense if you think about it."

Dubiel, you pompous ninny. Why don't you give us a much needed break from
your incessant hawking of that spiral bound, less than a quarter inch thick
report that you call a "book".

William Bruce

[Frank Dubiel]

Why don't you get a ruler and measure Da Book and whatever else you may
have thats way too short while uyou are at it.

[soofuu]

Because og its good quality I recommend Pelikan Level 5. It had never
run out ink for 2 weeks even with Broad nib in my college term. A
little bit expensive though..
-soofuu

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[Sabine & Johan]

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I would have bought FD's repair manual even only for the excellent Sheaffer
TD and snorkel instructions, plus the first general chapters on sacs,
levers, nibs etc. The rest is a bonus, which gives me great insight in the
way other fountain pen types work.

The only remark I would have is that the information density is quite high.
So you have to read carefully through the text. On the other hand, would a
book four times as thick but with more bla bla really be an advantage? And
about the "cheap" paper; I make a lot of annotations and underlining in the
text, so I don't ruin a highly glossy book in this case :-)

IMHO "Da Book" is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to repair pens,
or wants to understand how they work.

Johan