Help me sis!
I got the Preppy. Go here and scroll down and look at the cartridges...see the kind I have under product description?
http://yhst-40997485717836.stores.yahoo.net/platinum-preppy-fountain-pen-refills.html
How do I connect it to the pen? See that metal ball on the one end? That’s not the end, is it? I push the other end down onto that spike?? How easy or hard is it? I’m afraid to push too hard for fear of breaking the spike!
It’s been awhile since I’ve used cartriges (I like nice messy ink bottles...), but usually, you open the pen up, drop the cartridge into the bottom part (i.e. the part without the nib) with the skinnier side of the cartridge pointing up toward the nib, and then screw the nib unit back on gently until the cartridge kinda pops - a little hole gets poked into it. It looks like the metal ball is on the opposite side, so it’d go down toward the end of the pen.
Does any of that make sense?