shinies! and woe
Sep. 12th, 2005 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyThe saga of the Sheaffer continues.
Long-time Gentle Readers will remember my Sheaffer Legacy II, which has had as many perils as Pauline. Most recently, whilst the pen itself was in Fort Madison, Iowa, being repaired, I managed to lose its converter, whereupon ensued weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth.
So last week I finally got around to ordering a new converter from Fountain Pen Hospital, who are a bunch of sly and cunning weasels. The converter's $6; the minimum order is $10. Having no willpower, I did the self-gratifying thing and went and looked at their Super Specials, and found a Cross ATX (scroll down: it's the Azurite Blue). That and a bottle of Noodler's Nightshade, and I'd gone well over $10. Tra la.
Today, my box from FPH arrives. (Fountain Pen Hospital: not too proud to pack with newspaper.) The pen is gorgeous, the ink is gorgeous, the converter ... is wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong, a thousand times wrong.
A brief double-check. Yes, that is the only Sheaffer converter FPH sells. A quick Google (blessed is the Google, may its shadow never grow thinner). Survey says:
The Legacy II is a freak.
It uses something called a touchdown filler, which in fact works exactly like a piston (instead of the twirly thing that fountain pen manufacturers pretend is a piston)--and thus my foolish gullibility in assuming that a piston converter was the same thing as, well, a piston at least can be defended as a logical mistake.
Sheaffer's quit using touchdown fillers. They've gone to "piston" converters like all the other kids use. So, while there are still places readily accessible via Google (praise!) that will sell me a Sheaffer Legacy II, finding a touchdown filler all on its lonesome is going to be a bit more of a challenge. (And no, before you ask, buying a second Legacy II in order to get the touchdown filler is not cost-effective. I got my Sheaffer at a quarter of its list price, and that's still the most money I've ever spent on a pen, and twice what I paid for either the Waterman or the Cross.)
I have emailed Sheaffer to fling myself upon their mercy.
Further bulletins as events warrant.
Long-time Gentle Readers will remember my Sheaffer Legacy II, which has had as many perils as Pauline. Most recently, whilst the pen itself was in Fort Madison, Iowa, being repaired, I managed to lose its converter, whereupon ensued weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth.
So last week I finally got around to ordering a new converter from Fountain Pen Hospital, who are a bunch of sly and cunning weasels. The converter's $6; the minimum order is $10. Having no willpower, I did the self-gratifying thing and went and looked at their Super Specials, and found a Cross ATX (scroll down: it's the Azurite Blue). That and a bottle of Noodler's Nightshade, and I'd gone well over $10. Tra la.
Today, my box from FPH arrives. (Fountain Pen Hospital: not too proud to pack with newspaper.) The pen is gorgeous, the ink is gorgeous, the converter ... is wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong, a thousand times wrong.
A brief double-check. Yes, that is the only Sheaffer converter FPH sells. A quick Google (blessed is the Google, may its shadow never grow thinner). Survey says:
The Legacy II is a freak.
It uses something called a touchdown filler, which in fact works exactly like a piston (instead of the twirly thing that fountain pen manufacturers pretend is a piston)--and thus my foolish gullibility in assuming that a piston converter was the same thing as, well, a piston at least can be defended as a logical mistake.
Sheaffer's quit using touchdown fillers. They've gone to "piston" converters like all the other kids use. So, while there are still places readily accessible via Google (praise!) that will sell me a Sheaffer Legacy II, finding a touchdown filler all on its lonesome is going to be a bit more of a challenge. (And no, before you ask, buying a second Legacy II in order to get the touchdown filler is not cost-effective. I got my Sheaffer at a quarter of its list price, and that's still the most money I've ever spent on a pen, and twice what I paid for either the Waterman or the Cross.)
I have emailed Sheaffer to fling myself upon their mercy.
Further bulletins as events warrant.
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Date: 2005-09-12 05:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-12 05:58 pm (UTC)That is indeed the correct converter.
I'm going to wait a couple days to see if Sheaffer itself will tell me anything interesting, but if they don't, I'll definitely be talking to Swisher Pens.
Thank you! Mille remerciements!
I endeavour to give satisfaction
Date: 2005-09-12 06:48 pm (UTC)Re: Don't go down in the basement!
Date: 2005-09-13 02:41 pm (UTC)::cries::