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

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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 Refills This can be a little confusing as Cross Select tip Jumbo ballpoint pens are designed to fit Cross Selectip rollerball pens and do not fit any Cross ballpoint pen. The Cross Switch it pencil converter is a neat little gadget that can turn a Cross ballpoint pen fitted with a Cross Classic refill into a mechanical pencil. 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.

If your favourite pen has run out of ink, it's time for a pen refill. With less waste, it's a more eco-friendly and cost-effective solution to replacing your pen completely. 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. These are, without a doubt, manufactured by Schmidt, and sometimes they hint at the refill’s origins in their descriptions by referring to high-quality German ink. Cross Selectip refills will also fit older Sheaffer pens that used to use the same refill known as the Sheaffer C Style refill.The ink is supplied in bottles that contain 2fl oz/62.5ml, and there are five colors to choose from, which are: 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. Hold the upper part of the barrel in one hand and the lower part with the other, then twist the barrel to unscrew it from the lower front section. 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. The converter is a piston fill converter; to use it, simply dip the nib into the bottle of ink and then turn the screw at the end, drawing the ink into the converter’s reservoir. The Cross Push in Style Ink Converter fits the Following Fountain Pens:

Cross ink converters are a bespoke size and cannot be used in any fountain pen manufactured by another brand.To use a Selectip refill, follow the instructions we covered earlier for replacing a Selectip gel refill. 7.1. Cross Selectip Jumbo Ballpoint Refill Ink Colors and Tip Sizes 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. The great thing about Cross Selectip pens is that even though they have a traditional rollerball fitted, they can be swapped out for a different type of Selectip refill. They can be used to refill any 0.9mm mechanical pencil and are supplied in a tube containing 12 leads. 14. Cross Switch it 0.7mm Pencil Converter 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.

The refills are all fitted to Selectip pens in exactly the same way as they are all the same size; they just contain different ink formulations and have different tips. 6. Cross Selectip Gel Rollerball Pen RefillsThese 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-bottled fountain pen ink is a watered-based archival ink highly regarded by many fountain pen users. They can be used to refill any 0.5mm mechanical pencil and are supplied in a tube containing 15 leads. Cross 0.7mm Lead Refills – 8742 It is possible that this may be true as some companies specialize in making a product and then rebrand them for sale by other companies.