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FPN,

 

 

I wanted to know if Marlborough has same nibs as others, and what kind of nib fastener is it? screw in type like pelikan? friction fit (push in) or...

 

 

I am expecting a CS Mb in italic IB with lever fill soon.

 

cant wait

 

zack

'The Yo-Yo maneuver is very difficult to explain. It was first perfected by the well-known Chinese fighter pilot Yo-Yo Noritake. He also found it difficult to explain, being quite devoid of English.

So we left it at that. He showed us the maneuver after a sort. B*****d stole my kill.'

-Squadron Leader K. G. Holland, RAF. WWII China.

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Yes, it's screw-in like Pelikan. The nibs are fantastic. The lever fillers, however, seem prone t failure (it's a much-discussed topic here). I've resigned myself to using my lever-filling CSes as eyedroppers.

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describe the common failure?? punctured sac?

'The Yo-Yo maneuver is very difficult to explain. It was first perfected by the well-known Chinese fighter pilot Yo-Yo Noritake. He also found it difficult to explain, being quite devoid of English.

So we left it at that. He showed us the maneuver after a sort. B*****d stole my kill.'

-Squadron Leader K. G. Holland, RAF. WWII China.

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more like poor lever design, i think. see here:



https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/255686-modern-cs-lever-filler-how-do-you-change-the-sac/



seems to be the same thing with the churchill:



https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/261538-how-to-dismantle-a-churchill/



i have both the marlborough and the churchill, and i love how both pens write but they both take so very little ink using the levers that i’ve just filled them up with an eyedropper. i’m pretty good at repairing lever fillers and button fillers, even vacumatics, but i’m not even going to bother opening these or sending them back to CS, which i should, as long as the eyedropper system works. but if i’d known that the levers would be this finicky, i’d have ordered the converter or eyedropper option on both pens.


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Does CS offer an eyedropper option? If so, is it only on a few certain models? I ask simply because I've never seen it.

 

I have several CS pens, all c/c, and I am pretty happy with them; the nibs are all very smooth with no twiddling, straight out of the original boxes.

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Yes, there has been an LE model in 2012 or 2013 that was also available as an eyedropper. It had a barrel in one piece, without an end cap.

 

I was looking for the promotional email but I can't find it.

 

 

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My CS arrived today, so far im liking it, i could try and fix a few issues, refer to the hand written review.

 

The ink is Iroshizuku Ku jaku

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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'The Yo-Yo maneuver is very difficult to explain. It was first perfected by the well-known Chinese fighter pilot Yo-Yo Noritake. He also found it difficult to explain, being quite devoid of English.

So we left it at that. He showed us the maneuver after a sort. B*****d stole my kill.'

-Squadron Leader K. G. Holland, RAF. WWII China.

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FPN,

 

 

I wanted to know if Marlborough has same nibs as others, and what kind of nib fastener is it? screw in type like pelikan? friction fit (push in) or...

 

 

I am expecting a CS Mb in italic IB with lever fill soon.

 

cant wait

 

zack

 

Typical Bock/Jowo setup, where the collar screws in, and the nib/feed are friction fit into the collar.

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so in that case, is there any retailers that stock individual CS nibs? i would like to buy a 18k two tone fine nib

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So we left it at that. He showed us the maneuver after a sort. B*****d stole my kill.'

-Squadron Leader K. G. Holland, RAF. WWII China.

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