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This is my first foray into a lever filler. All of my other pens have been either piston fillers or eyedroppers. Those generally have very distinct and obvious begin/end points for filling.

I don't want to apply too much pressure to the lever fill system, but was wondering what kind of and angle from vertical I should move the lever to in order to get optimum fill out of a lever filler? Right now, seem to be loading rather light.

Pretty broad nib on the pen. Writes really, really smoothly.

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Levers are generally intended to be opened 90 degrees to maximize the compression of the sac. Sheaffer's have a stop on their double bars for this purpose. Some bars do better at expelling more are depending on their design but all depend upon being flattened as much as possible.

 

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Keenes are very nice, if somewhat obscure, vintage pens. They have a tendency to shed their clips so if you have one with a clip firmly attached consider yourself fortunate, and take some care with it. Enjoy!

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Work the lever as far as it will go, do that 2 or 3 times waiting a bit so the sack will have time to inflate.

Let's see a picture.

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Pen is missing the clip, and it's definitely not a "looker," but it writes okay. Now that I know on the filling system, I'll be able to better load it with ink. Have a tendency to be cautious with things at times.

Will have to improve my camera skills :/

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