M800

[Charles Skinner]

Advice needed. --- My M800 --- much loved --- seems to have developed a problem, not a huge problem, but one that is causing a little concern. The piston seems to be harder to "turn." It seems to be a little harder when emptying the ink than when picking it up the ink. The pen has had moderate use over the past five or so years. The last couple of fills have been Noodler's Purple Heart ink, which, as I understand it, is an ink that helps lube the parts. Your thoughts please.

 

C. S.

[MBFan]

Try a couple fills with the lubricating ink. If that doesn't help, then open it up (e.g. Remove the nib) and add a touch of silicone grease and work the piston up and down a few times. Should do the trick

[Notgatherox]

I would think the Eel series would help in lubricating the piston.

 

 

~Epic

[Clancy]

I would think the Eel series would help in lubricating the piston.

 

 

~Epic

Yep. +1 for the Noodlers Eel inks as one option.

[Xof72000]

You can also unscrew the nib and (after cleaning your pen) place a small nut of pure silicone grease inside the barrel.

Turning the knob a few times in and out will lubrificate it immediately.

[sargetalon]

A small (very small) amount of pure silicone grease on a cotton swab applied through the section up around the piston knob should solve the problem. Unscrew the nib from the section first of course. No need to unscrew the piston assembly. Search this site for tutorials or see the How-To under the link in my signature.

[Rick Propas]

Be aware that according to Chartpak, Pelikan's US distributor, the use of Noodler's inks voids their warranty

[whych]

Submerse the whole pen in water and keep flushing it till there is no ink coming out of either the nib end or the back of the piston end.

You will be surprised at how much ink can work its way to the back of the piston over the years.

 

Just cleaning it all out should make a difference.

Dry the pen out (any water left at the back of the piston will eventually evaporate). You can now grease the piston.

[legume]

Be aware that according to Chartpak, Pelikan's US distributor, the use of Noodler's inks voids their warranty

 

Doesn't the use any any ink other than Pelikan's void the warranty? I doubt anyone pays heed to that sort of thing.

[JonDoh]

I was told by them not to use Private Reserve ink in my Pelikans. Of course, Private Reserve makes some of my favorite colors so I haven't followed that advice. I've used good quality non Pelikan brand ink in my Pelikan pens for over 25 years and have never had any problems.

[DrCodfish]

On Topic: Follow the adivce above on lubing your pen with silicone grease, shoulsd quickly solve your problem. Using ink to lubricate a pen seems counter intuitive: Generally speaking (I think) it is the use of ink (and cleaning) which eventually wahses away the proper lubricant.

 

Off Topic: I find all, or almost all the ink colors I desire in the Diamine product line (then again, I am not a real 'rainbow' kind of guy) I have and use others but mostly it is Diamine for me, and I have had no trouible with these inks. I did once use a brown ink from Noodlers and it really fowled up the pen. I sent it out to a pen repair guy who asked what ink it was and showed me pics of the damaged bladder (obviously not a Pelikan). It was a new pen and this was the first ink I had used in it. That was the first, and the last Noodlers I have used. admittedly, my sample is small, I am no exper,t and consider myself a newbie to the FP game, but as I said, I find most of what I need weatring a Diamine lable, and over the years have had no problems.

[georges zaslavsky]

Use Diamine, Pilot Iroshiziku and MB Inks, they are friendly with Pelikan pens