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Originally Posted by HarryT
Refills? All you need to refill a fountain pen is a bottle of ink.
Are you perhaps thinking of "cartridge" pens, which use a disposible ink cartridge? They are a different type of pen to fountain pens.
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Ahh, but these days you can get pens that take cartridges or can be filled with ink from bottles by means of a converter, so the distinction is blurred
(As an aside, one of my pens is a 1935 lever fill, and at one point it really did demonstrate one reason they might be called fountain pens
. It was being a temperamental and not putting ink to the nib properly. What I usually do in these situations is squeeze or twist the sac or plunger. You can't do that with a lever fill, you have to pull the lever on the side. Which I did, without thinking. And a fountain of ink shot upwards and everywhere! I ended up sorting the problem out by attacking the nib slightly with some pliers)