Cross Ballpoint Refill, Medium Black, 2 per Card, (8513-2)

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Monteverde makes a medium and broad alternative refill for Cross ballpoint pens. It is a metal refill with a color-coded screw-threaded plastic adapter that screws into the barrel of the ballpoint in exactly the same way that genuine Cross refills do.

Ultimately, it does not matter who makes their ink or nibs as long as it is of the quality that you associate with Cross’s products. 12. Cross Ink Converters It is not known if Sheaffer was buying them from Cross and rebranding the refills or vice versa. However, Cross now owns Sheaffer, and you can no longer buy Sheaffer C Style refills. Cross ink converters are a bespoke size and cannot be used in any fountain pen manufactured by another brand.Cross-fountain pen ink is not harmful to pens and can be used in any fountain pen with an ink convertor fitted that enables bottled ink. AT Cross bought Sheaffer in August 2014 for a cheeky little 15 million US Dollars, so it is natural that over the years, there has been some crossover in making and using refills.

Simply remove the cap of the pen, unscrew the Classic refill, insert the Switch It refill and replace the cap. These are made by the U.S based manufacturer Monteverde and the German specialist refill manufacturing company Schmidt and Fisher Space Pens supply a pressurized Cross refill. Monteverde Alternative Cross Classic Ballpoint Pen RefillsThe Cross Selectip gel rollerball refills are smooth writing gel ink refills with a medium tip. Its gel ink is of archival quality and is available in four ink colors.

Nearly all Cross manufactured products have codes that start with an 8, and nearly all Sheaffer manufactured products have codes that start with a 9. To fit the Cross push-in style fountain pen converter, unscrew the barrel of the pen and, as the name suggests, push the converter firmly into the front-end section that contains the nib. These are not interchangeable, as one pushes into the front-end section of the pen and the other screws into a threaded section of the front end of the pen. Cross make several different sizes of replaceable erasers for their mechanical pencil. usually, the refill required is determined by the lead diameter, but not always. In the next section, we explain which erasers fit Cross mechanical pencils. 15.1. Cross Eraser Refill – 8403 It appears that some Cross refills are rebranded as Sheaffer and not the other way round; as in the Sheaffer catalogs, the product codes start with an 8 and are appended SH.A few years ago, members of the Fountain Pen Network suggested that the German Stationery manufacturer Pelikan make the bottled ink for Cross. Monteverde refills use “Soft Roll Ink Technology,” a very low viscosity ink sometimes known as hybrid ink. This type of ink is very smooth flowing and glides more easily across the paper than traditional ballpoint pen inks. At the time of writing this, Cross makes three different Selectip refills, a gel rollerball, jumbo ballpoint, and a porous point fineliner. If you like fineliners then the Selectip porous point refill is ideal because, as the name suggests, it has a traditional fineliner-style fibre tip.