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On the previous text I mentioned that the Pilot Tsuwairo inks should not be used in the old converter CON-70. I am showing side-by-side pic...

...of capitalism. Pilot's converters and cartridges currently available in the market... more or less. By the end of 2016, Pilot...

The Pilot 65 –or Custom 65 as some called it—is a model I have mentioned a lot on these pages, but I have never described it in detail. Give...

The title of this Chronicle could be a trite “yet another filling system”, for we have seen how fertile Japan has been on this field. But f...

The Chronicle on Pilot converters and cartridges is the single most popular text on this blog. However, there are some misconceptions and s...

Armed with the information on the way of dating not just the nibs but the whole pen –even if only during only twenty years—there are a numb...

When speaking about the problems to find proprietary cartridges to ink a Morison pocket pen , I ended the text with a negative conclusion—th...

I can think of a very big reason to rather self-filling over cartridge-converter. With self-filling pens, the owner will never run out those...

In 1956, Platinum introduced the ink cartridge in Japan. To do so, the company marketed a modified version of the model Honest, an aerometri...

In 1956, Platinum marketed the model Honest 60 . This pen was the first ever cartridge-converter pen in Japan and, therefore, saying good-by...

In my personal experience, out of the three ink converters Pilot produces for the current line of pens , the piston CON-50 was the least sat...