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[SeeksAdvice]

Ball point pen refill (large retractable size) attached to the back side of the feed. Apparently the last owner of this eyedropper felt that such is how you refilled the pen. The ball end was cut off and the thing force-fit/glued? to the feed. Is this a send it off to get fixed project?

[SkylarKnight]

maybe a strong pair of pliars and gripping material? or you could try holding it in hot water in hopes it loosens up... (or melt the plastic that holds the ink refill)

[SeeksAdvice]

Will try soaking and see what happens.

I think somebody ran some India ink through it which doesn't help matters.

Don't know what other ink has been run through it. Color came out similar to Noodler's El Lawrence, but I don't see any indication that such color was recently loaded. I see hard/crusty black stuff that doesn't dissolve well, and blue "goo" like ink.

[pajaro]

It would be interesting to see a picture of this. If the feed still flows ink, you should be able to disassemble it and make the pen work. Just when you think you have heard everything . . .

[SeeksAdvice]

Ballpoint refill removed. Ball point ink less of a problem than I thought. Was found to contain massive amounts of unknown "black" ink. At first thought it was India ink based how tightly it clung to the nib, etc.. Whatever it was, left no stains on my hands. Upon more rinsing, got colors out that really looked like Noodler's El Lawrence (i.e. used motor oil), but can't imagine that being used in the pen, as it is, IMO, an esoteric ink.

Pen flushed but apparently did not get all of the old ink out. Filled with Ama-Iro, and got some really interesting colors back ;P

Nib is pretty smooth. Ink flow is medium to heavy depending on pressure. Guessing that flow will change as more old ink is dissolved out. Nib actually writes better than the last Pelikan 140 I bought from FPH.

[Uncle Red]

Glad to hear that this worked out. Did you remember to clean the inside of the cap?