Mechanically, both pens worked as advertised. I especially liked the feel of the additional weight of the Mont Blanc refill. Initially, both pens worked well and wrote smoothly, and I really liked the color of the blue refill. The medium blue refill was actually a little too wet for my liking; it would bleed through my standard office paper. Both pens performed in an awesome manner for a couple of weeks.
Why am I using the past tense here? Past tense is appropriate because both refills are no longer with me - they both started to dry out and skip on me after about two weeks. I admit that I didn't use the pens on a daily basis, or even regularly. That may be why they both started to dry out. I don't own a real Mont Blanc pen, but I suspect that they are capped to prevent the rollerball refills from clogging. I seriously doubt that both refills actually ran out of ink . . . my theory is that the tips just got all gunked up due to lack of use.
I enjoyed the pens while they lasted, but I won't be buying more Mont Blanc refills unless I can use them in a capped pen. I'm not certain that they were designed to be used in a retractable pen that leaves the tip open to the air.
All of that said, if you only use one pen at a time on a regular basis, then the Mont Blanc + G2 combo might work well for you. If not, then proceed with caution!
I used a Mont Blanc ball point refill in the Pilot G2 with two steps. The cap that covers the ball point refill is the right diameter to cut as a spacer in the G2. Line up the cartridge and the cap against the G2 cartridge an cut the right amount off. Drop it in the pen body first followed by the Mont Blanc ball point. Then drop a narrow spring from a cheap ball point into the point of the pen body to engage the step on the Mont Blanc refill. Now you have a perfectly working G2/Mont Blanc ball point conversion that is designed for retracting.
ReplyDeleteWow. Sounds like a nice hack for someone who likes ball points.
DeleteI just popped out the back cover of the g2 with my fingernail, used pliers to gently wiggle the back park of the Mont Blanc and swapped em. The G2 part is a little smaller, so I just used a tiny piece to plastic wrap to make it fit snug.
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