Fountain pen help

[mfoster]

My wife bought a PSI fountain pen kit a couple years ago at a symposium and I finally got around to turning it for her for Xmas. So now she wants to know what type of refill it takes. Of course PSI gives no clue as they want you to buy their cartridge refill. I wonder though, if it is a standard refill for other manufactured fountain pen makes. I would assume so, but can find no information on which one this might be. Anyone have a clue?

 

[Bill Boehme]

Is it something that you could take to an office supply store to compare? When I was in school a century ago I think that there was only one kind of fountain pen refill. I hear that the world may have changed since then. Here are a few different ones that Amazon has.

 

[Shawn Pachlhofer]

kit fountain pens typically use one of the following 3 things:

"standard" refill, these are about 1.25" in length: http://www.exoticblanks.com/private-reserve-cartridges2013-06-25-03-51-12516574583/ (most common)

"long" (or maxi) refills, but these are rather uncommon in kit pens: http://www.exoticblanks.com/private-reserve-maxis2013-06-25-03-51-12933321525/ (least common)

finally - it could be a refillable reservoir: https://www.pennstateind.com/store/PKPUMP5.html (uncommon in most kit pens, but does come with some higher-end kits)

If your pen uses the standard cartridge, chances are it will hold one cartridge with the feed and you can store a second cartridge in the pen body. This is what I do, as I tend to run out of ink in the middle of a meeting. You can swap over very quickly.

you can choose to use a maxi instead of the standard, but you won't be able to have a reserve cartridge in the pen.

or you can swap to a reservoir - but then you need a bottle of ink to refill from.

exotic blanks (linked above) has a great selection of quality inks. I would not buy ink from PSI.