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Admiral Snorkel and PFM III. I don't have a triumph nib model... Don't like triumph nibs...

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How do you guys clean these things? I need some more colors, I thought it'd be cool to get the all the models in the same color, but when I look at my pen box...

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How do you guys clean these things?

suck and squirt... It takes its time and near the end it's more fun if there's a cat or wife nearby...

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Today I am using my 1954 Sheaffer Craftsman. I bought it when I was thirteen years old. I recently had Richard Binder put a Feather Touch nib in. It is a great pen. It is Persian Blue. Until today I had been using my 1959 Pea Green Valiant Snorkel that was my mother's. It is such a smooth-writing pen. It fascinates my students when I pull it out of my shirt pocket to use.

 

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Today I finally pulled out and cleaned a Clipper snorkel in aqua (pastel blue, light blue, whatever) that I've had forever and never even tried to clean up, let alone get fixed. All I had to do was soak and then lo, and behold, it was working. I mean, sucking it in, smoothly pistoning, and then able to squirt that inky water quite a distance. I'm not sure I want to trust it just yet. It looks like the former owner (who was the original owner, and I knew him when he gave it to me back in 1998 or so) may have inked it one or twice, and then put it back in the original case with the pencil and never used it. I did dip it and write a bit and it seems like a medium with that big, long-fingered, shiny palladium triumph nib. Under a loupe the tip looks pristine.

 

I also noticed that it has the gold tube, or at least I'm assuming it's gold because it looks a little like brass, but I've only heard of gold and stainless steel.

 

So, that's what I'm using for the moment as it's the only snorkel I have semi-working. I want to get my late father-in-law's big black desk pen with the honken' great two-toned gold triumph nib fixed up. The snorkel is stuck sticking out and I'm not quite ready to tackle that one yet.

 

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Admiral Snorkel and PFM III. I don't have a triumph nib model... Don't like triumph nibs...

 

Quoting myself... My grandfather used to say that you must not spit upways, because it will return on your own face...

 

I've bought a Sheaffer Triumph Snorkel... Flawless!!! And I'm waiting a Sheaffer Statesman Snorkel...

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It's PFM III for me. I don't like the original Snorks; too thin, I feel like writing with a pencil.

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I have a Sovereign and a Crest. Love the Crest, has the gold Snorkel tube. Used to have a Special and an Admiral, and enjoyed the softer nibs.

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I have three: black and grey Valiants, and a blue (Aqua?) Statesman. The only one really working is the Statesman, but I'm not enamored of the EF nib on it. The grey Valiant was *sort of* repaired, but I suspect that it's going to need a pro looking it over; the black one got checked out by Danny Fudge last year at the Ohio Pen Show, but I've been too chicken to try it out. Don't know offhand what the nibs are on either of those two pens.

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I also noticed that it has the gold tube, or at least I'm assuming it's gold because it looks a little like brass, but I've only heard of gold and stainless steel.

Jury's a bit divided on that one. A lot of people think it's something other than gold, like phosphor bronze or the like. According to service manuals and Richard Binder, they are genuine 14k gold, after metallurgic analysis.

Calculating.

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Lately, I've been using the black Clipper with the fine PdAg nib. By far the smoothest nib in my collection.

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I'm currently using my PFM-I with a fine PdAg nib and Montblanc Brown Toffee ink. I really need to take a new photo of the pen, it's burgundy, not black.

 

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Birthday gift I got from my wife.

 

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PFM II

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