Reddit mentions of Cross Fountain Pen Converter Push-in Style

It was actually my first fountain pen, and I was originally so let down by how it wrote that I was turned off for a while. Once I dug deeper and decided to try the converter, it helped a lot and now I have a few other pens as well. The converter I found on Amazon. It's still a thicker line but usable to me now. I would recommend a "dryer" ink for the Cross. Like I said, I used Quink and it works nicely in it. There are plenty others though.

This style of converter should work with the Century Classic - it's the thinner of the two and the one I use in my Cross Century and it works just like it's supposed to, so unless there's a radical size difference between the pens it should be fine.

I'm afraid I've never had a nib adjusted so I can't help you with that question. :(

Hey, I might be late on this one but I saw a Cross Century the other day, and the owner used this green converter:

http://www.amazon.com/Cross-Fountain-Converter-Townsend-Founatin/dp/B003H0ZTOW

Not sure if itll work for your pen but it was on a Cross Century (albeit an older one)

If someone buys a Pilot Metropolitan on Amazon, and searches for Pilot inks, sure they will see some bottles, but unless they know to track down the proper converter they cannot use them. Meanwhile the very first hit is Pilot's black cartridges, followed by their blue/black, followed by their blue.

I got my first two pens from Staples (one we went shopping for, the other was a gift). Literally all they had in stock for the first one was Waterman blue cartridges (although that one did come with a converter, it was years before I used it). The second was a Cross Aventura, which doesn't actually have a native converter, although there is one that kind of works (link), and Staples only sold black and blue cartridges for that, so that's all I used for a few years.

To take another example, if people don't buy a Metro, they'll probably get a Lamy Safari, and if you search "Lamy ink" on Amazon the first eight hits are all black and blue ink, with one inkwell mixed in and one converter. The ninth hit is actually violet ink, so that might be a good introduction, but I wasn't introduced through Amazon so I'm not really sure whether someone would know to go looking for that.

Similarly, searching for "fountain pen ink" gives you all blacks and blues from all kinds of different manufacturers. People brand new to the hobby aren't going to know about places like GouletPens, and sadly fine writing stores, where someone might see nice starter pens alongside multi-thousand-dollar limited editions and a wide variety of inks, seem to be few and far between.

Cross uses proprietary cartridges, meaning your pen will not be compatible with cartridges from any other brand. If you've been happy with the ink that came with your pen, you can just buy some more Cross cartridges on Amazon.

If you don't like the ink that came with your pen, you have a choice. You can refill one of your existing cartridges from a bottle by buying and using a cheap, blunt syringe, or you can buy a small gadget called a converter that converts your pen into a piston filler. Both of these options will allow you to use bottled ink.

If you decide to use bottled ink, the question then becomes one of what color you want. There are many colors and types of fountain pen ink available. Do you have any preferences?

If you're talking cartridges, then no, Cross cartridges are proprietary. However, if you pick up a proprietary converter (https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Converter-Fountain-Townsend-Aventura/dp/B003H0ZTOW), you can fill with any ink you like.

So I just got this converter for my Cross Aventura and it came with no filling instructions. Being the fountain pen newbie that I am, I searched for some Youtube videos that would show me how to fill it. I came across this video and gave it a try. What happened was it caused the ink to get really bubbly inside the converter and after the bubbles settled the converter was just a little over halfway full.

What am I missing? Could it be the ink I'm using? I ended up pushing out all the ink and just filling the converter directly but that got really messy. There's got to be a simpler way?

Did it come with a cartridge or ink?

I'm not certain (as I am new to fountain pens), but could the maker mean these Cross Fountain Cartridges? If so, maybe one of these converters will work: screw style or push in style. Or perhaps this universal converter? If that doesn't help, I'd be contacting the maker for more information. Best of luck!

Disclaimer first: I don't own this pen, so what I'm about to write is simply from some research I just did.

This is a discussion about the Cross Aventura on FPN and there seems to be some mixed signals here. Most people say that the Cross push-on converter will work in the Aventura. Some people say that there is a spring inside the body of the pen that you need to remove first so the converter will fit, others say even without the spring, it doesn't seem to fit.. hard to say based off this thread alone.

This is a discussion about converters for the Cross Aventura on a different forum and again it seems to be the consensus that the Cross push-on converter will fit once you remove the spring from inside the body of the pen.

I called Cross's customer support line, but of course they closed about 20 minutes before I called.

If you want to order up one of these push-on converters, here's a link to it on Amazon and here's a link to it on the Cross site. On the cross site, it's the bottom one called "Push-in style..."

Hopefully someone else here owns the pen and has personal experience with a converter in it or has a more definitive answer for you! If you want to call Cross tomorrow, their number is 1-800-282-7677 and their hours are 8:30am to 5:00pm Eastern.