10 Friday Nov 2023
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The arrival of a Fountain Pen Day purchase made me think about one thing I always do with a new pen or converter. It is also something you still see posted as a possible fix for the lack of ink flow with a new pen. While many of you will already follow this process, there are those of you new to the hobby who may not. As the title says, this is flushing the new fountain pen with water.
Continue reading21 Friday May 2021
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fountain pen repair, new sac, parker duofold, Parker New Duofold Senior, Parker Pens, sac replacement
Today, Friday the 14th of May, I learnt two important things as a result of apparent nib leakage on my recently repaired Parker ‘New’ Duofold Senior. Now before I cover them I should point out that I did not break the pen nor was it errors on my part (well not quite, as I shall explain), but first I would like to thank Mike McShane of The Pendragons for the advice and corrections he gave me this afternoon while I asked for confirmation on what I was about to do.
Continue reading23 Friday Apr 2021
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fountain pen, fountain pen repair, new sac, parker duofold, parker new duofold, Parker New Duofold Senior, sac replacement
Last September (2020) I took possession of my late father’s Parker ‘New Duofold’ Senior fountain pen, which I part covered at the end of this piece. A week back I went to use the pen to find the ink had evaporated, and on refreshing with a little water I then found it appeared to be leaking around the base of the sac. Or so I thought. The net result was some careful disassembly to discover the real problem, and then the repair. The work itself was simple enough so I will be covering it here as an example of why you should not necessarily be scared to do repairs such as this, and will also include the mistakes I made and the bullets I dodged.
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