Snorkel
1 item in stock, $125 to $125.
What “Snorkel” means here
Sheaffer's 1952 answer to inky fingers: a tube extends from under the nib, and a pneumatic stroke of the blind cap collapses the sac and fills the pen without dipping the nib. The PFM of 1959 used a larger version. Repair means sac, O-ring and point seal; the PFM needs "a special tool" (shopping-for-a-sheaffer-pfm). On his repair list.
From Drippy Musings
My Battle with Snorkels Advances, Stymies
Two Snorkel filling units mock me from my work bench, as I try to sort out the final mysterious reasons they won’t draw ink. For roughly 10 years, I have struggled to find a way to fix the beautiful and brilliant Sheaffer Snorkel. Years ago I saw a poll that asked pen collectors what they…
Slaying the Snorkel Siren
If you have been following these Drippy Musings for some time now, you know that the Sheaffer Snorkel fountain pen has been the bane of my existence for the past decade. I love these pens in all of their complicated filling mechanism glory, but I could never tame those very filling systems. Here are the…
Shopping for a Sheaffer PFM
The Sheaffer Pen for Men, more commonly known as the Sheaffer PFM, was a luxury fountain pen first released in 1959. Like the Ford Edsel, it wasn’t quite as popular in its time as it should have been and was made for only several years. Years later, it has become an iconic pen for vintage…