Mont Blanc Pen Refill Trick

Randomly browsing StumbleUpon one day I saw this little video:

“Make a $200 pen for $6″

…..I thought this was soooo cool!

As a kid who used to collect mechanical pencils in middle school…..naturally I HAD to try this.

I immediately bought some Pilot G2 Pens and Mont Blanc Pen Refills from Amazon. The pens are super cheap, the Mont Blanc refills are $6.00/piece. I bought two 2-packs of them.

Fast forward one week for delivery time and it was time to do some pen-surgery:

Notice how the Mont Blanc refill is eeeveerrr sssooo slligghttlly longer than the G2 refill. This is actually long enough to make them not compatible:

This means you get out some scissors and do a small little snip-snip. The end piece is just soft plastic, so even cheap-o scissors will be fine:

DONE! Now just insert the freshly-operated-on Mont Blanc pen refill into the G2 pen and it works perfectly!

You can even see which Mont Blanc-enstein pens you’ve modified through the casing:

I actually waited a few weeks to post this….just to make sure the pens were actually really good….
and I gotta say……..

-Neville
:-)

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Zita 11. Sep, 2011 at 1:01 am #

Cool cool!! I wonder if it would work with the ballpoint refills too…I’m thinking it should (?) Thanks for sharing :)

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- Neville 11. Sep, 2011 at 1:29 am #
  
  Thanks! I love my Mont Blanc-enstein pens!
  
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Anonymous 12. Sep, 2011 at 12:27 pm #

I’ve never even tried a Mont Blanc-enstein pen. I’m writing with a Pilot G2 right now. I have pen envy!

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- Linda 12. Sep, 2011 at 12:28 pm #
  
  That comment was from me. Oops.
  
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  - Neville 12. Sep, 2011 at 4:47 pm #
    
    My pen’s better that YOUR pen.
    
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Nickolay Lamm 13. Sep, 2011 at 1:13 pm #

Hi Neville. I’ve been following your blog when it first started. I want to know if you’d be interested in featuring a guest post…

I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh this year and found a job with the help of doing something nobody has done. I passed out fliers with the following headline:”$800 Reward for Lead to Full Time Job”, with my contact information and qualifications. I passed out 250 of them in downtown and received 2 replies.

Although those leads didn’t get me the job I have now, that is only because I started receiving leads from my mass cover letter campaign, which ended up giving me the job I have now.

Regardless, doing something that was socially engaging kept my spirits up high and proved that you can get leads doing something totally “out there”.

E-mail me at nickolaylamm@gmail.com if you’re interested.

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harsha 13. Sep, 2011 at 1:36 pm #

I will try this trick

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- Neville 14. Sep, 2011 at 11:45 pm #
  
  Do it….it’s awesome :-)
  
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Sarah 27. Sep, 2011 at 5:22 pm #

What a great money-saver! And clever too – Hope it’s OK to pass this idea along. :) I am a huge fan of saving money but still getting good quality items.

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karlin 15. Nov, 2011 at 5:42 am #

Really good Mont Blanc pen, but we have some more special ones .

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Anne 29. Feb, 2012 at 4:33 pm #

Why do American pens cost so much?…. Or maybe our currency is lower than yours? (I’ve never understood them)

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