Mont Blanc Pen Refill Trick
10 Sep
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
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:
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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:
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DONE! Now just insert the freshly-operated-on Mont Blanc pen refill into the G2 pen and it works perfectly!
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You can even see which Mont Blanc-enstein pens you’ve modified through the casing:
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I actually waited a few weeks to post this….just to make sure the pens were actually really good….
and I gotta say……..
-Neville
:-)
Cool cool!! I wonder if it would work with the ballpoint refills too…I’m thinking it should (?) Thanks for sharing :)
Thanks! I love my Mont Blanc-enstein pens!
I’ve never even tried a Mont Blanc-enstein pen. I’m writing with a Pilot G2 right now. I have pen envy!
That comment was from me. Oops.
My pen’s better that YOUR pen.
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I will try this trick
Do it….it’s awesome :-)
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.
Really good Mont Blanc pen, but we have some more special ones .
Why do American pens cost so much?…. Or maybe our currency is lower than yours? (I’ve never understood them)
I think this trick is real,a trick
I don’t get it Pilot G2 pens to me write quite nice. They have become my cheap pen of choice. That being said why buy a expensive refill which I admit writes nice but I long ago quite buying MB refills and buy Schmidt’s as a replacement refill for my MB and other pens. I guess what I am saying is why put a $6.00 refill in a $2.00 pen
Hi Neville
Thanks for sharing that
I will give it a go
The refill in aust is not $6 but $15 Aus each I might have to buy it off amazon
Can you work out how to refill mont blanc ink cartridges please ? Need it desperately
It’s awesome designed for me to have a web page, which is helpful for my know-how. thanks admin