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Dry Sailor Pro Gear Realo?


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Hello,

 

Today I received my sailor pro gear realo (burgundy). While I'm very pleased with the looks, the pen is really dry! There is definitely a problem with ink flow, it starts, but it's rather faint and just feels dry. I first tried to write with my new Sailor Jentle ink (no idea if this is a wet or dry ink by default), then I changed to J. Herbin's Perle Noire, which I have always considered a wet ink (it wrote very, very wet, smooth, ... in my pilot falcon). Do you have any tips? Maybe I should wait a few hours? It writes dry in my normal writing position, but when I lower the angle of writing, it starts writing a bit more wet, but really not that wet: the lines aren't saturated even when writing at a low angle. What should I do?

 

 

I've heard of "Mike it work", but I really want to save that for a last solution, considering it's going to cost me quite a bit of money since I live in Europe. Besides, I already paid import taxes on this pen, and I have no idea if they'll charge import taxes again if I send/receive it back from the USA!

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Did you wash the pen out thoroughly (water/dish soap/ammonia mix) before inking? Sometimes the remnants of oils/fluids used in the manufacturing process seem to cause a type of surface tension, preventing the ink from flowing from the filler and through the nib.

I had a Sailor with an EF nib that was so dry; there didn't seem to any ink flow and the line it wrote was nearly invisible. I gave it a second thorough clean and wrote with it for a couple of days, despite its problems. Then it suddenly sprang into life, with no adjustment, and is now one of my favourite pens.

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Did you wash the pen out thoroughly (water/dish soap/ammonia mix) before inking? Sometimes the remnants of oils/fluids used in the manufacturing process seem to cause a type of surface tension, preventing the ink from flowing from the filler and through the nib.

I had a Sailor with an EF nib that was so dry; there didn't seem to any ink flow and the line it wrote was nearly invisible. I gave it a second thorough clean and wrote with it for a couple of days, despite its problems. Then it suddenly sprang into life, with no adjustment, and is now one of my favourite pens.

I'll try this too, but I seem to have found part of the problem: feed and nib seem to misaligned by a fraction of a millimeter. When I push them into the 'aligned' position', it writes OK, still a bit dry, but OK for me. The problem is that both nib and feed seem to be attached to the grip section very tightly, and it seems like it 'springs back' to misalignation after a few minutes of writing.

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