Dave tracked down some Waterman cartridges this morning. Before I loaded one, I checked it against the Parker Quink cartridge. The Waterman has a narrower neck made of what looks like thinner plastic, and a plastic ball bearing seal. The Quink one is wider and thicker, and appears to have a flat plastic seal. Thankfully, attempting to put the Quink cartridge in has not damaged the Waterman, which is writing very happily now!

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Dave has bought me a gorgeous fountain pen - a Waterman Audace Summer Night. I fancied purple ink, but the shop only had Parker Quink cartridges(*). We were assured that Parker and Waterman were owned by the some company and that Parker cartridges would work in the Waterman.

When we got home, I pushed a cartridge in, firmly, as far as it would go. No ink came out. Squeezed the cartridge, shook the pen, all the normal things, but still no ink. Took the cartridge out - although I had pushed it in as far as it would go, the cartridge was not even pierced - however the plastic around the top looked like it had been bitten into.

I will be waiting to use my new pen until I can get some Waterman cartridges, I think.


(*) I would use bottled ink, but I'm worried about the lid coming off the ink bottle whilst it's in my bag and getting ink all over the place!

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