Parker "jotter" Stopped Writing.......help!

[Behike54]

So I cleaned cleaned out old ink (Kon-Peki) and filled with MB Toffee Brown.

 

Obviously it's not a hard pen to clean. Shook clean after things ran clear, then let pen air dry and filled.

 

The MB was slow to start but once it did, it looked really great.

 

Then, later that night, my wife was showing me something and grabbed the pen and started writing with it like it was a ball-point. Then NOTHING, then only standing straight up, then only in small circles at an extreme angle........then DEATH.

 

I don't have a loop, but I am wondering if I should have used pen flush as well as water, or something is clogging the feed. I did not use any kleenex or something else that would clog the feed........I DON'T THINK?

 

Any and all help would be appreciated.

 

While this pen has a smaller window of use than TWSBI, it has really grown on me.

 

Thanks in advance for your time and attention.

[perth]

I don't think it's a clogging problem if the pen in question has just been treated like a ballpoint. It's likely to be a sprung nib, in my opinion.

[Behike54]

I intellectually I know what a sprung nib is, but it doesn't look like that, and as I mentioned previously, I don't have a loupe.

 

I will see of I still have the directions and/or look on YT.

 

[ac12]

Look at the tines with a magnifying glass. If the tip is spread apart, it is sprung.

The gap has to be small for the ink to flow. If the slit is spread, the ink cannot flow to the tip of the nib.

 

See if you can slip a piece of paper between the nib and feed.

Too much of a gap = no ink flow.

If there is a large gap, the nib is damaged and you have to replace the pen, as you can't fix the nib.

 

This is why I gave my wife an Esterbrook with a manifold nib. Those nibs were made to handle writing pressure, as they were made to write to make carbon copies.

[Mike 59]

If the Jotter FP has been used vertically, maybe what has happened, is that the nib has scratched up paper fibres that have now filled the gap in the tines, so no ink flow.

A quick way to clear this, ( if no 0.001" shim available) would be to draw lines straight down a sheet of A4, pressing slightly harder than normal.

This should leave any paper fibres behind on the paper, and clear the nib to work again.

[Sasha Royale]

How often do you flush this pen ? Flushing removes ink that is liquid. Dried ink may be left behind.

Consider soaking the nib overnight, then flushing. Then, the "clean" pen overnight again in clean

water. If there is remaining dried ink, some of it will dissolve and manifest as tint in the water.

[Behike54]

How often do you flush this pen ? Flushing removes ink that is liquid. Dried ink may be left behind.

Consider soaking the nib overnight, then flushing. Then, the "clean" pen overnight again in clean

water. If there is remaining dried ink, some of it will dissolve and manifest as tint in the water.

 

It's brand new (less than two weeks old, the converter is small, and it has been filled ONCE with Iroshizuku Kon-peki, which was pretty wet.

 

That said, I am willing to try anything. The sweet spot on this pen is small, but I have come to like it very much.

 

If the Jotter FP has been used vertically, maybe what has happened, is that the nib has scratched up paper fibres that have now filled the gap in the tines, so no ink flow.

A quick way to clear this, ( if no 0.001" shim available) would be to draw lines straight down a sheet of A4, pressing slightly harder than normal.

This should leave any paper fibres behind on the paper, and clear the nib to work again.

 

 

Good idea and much appreciated!

 

Thanks everybody!

Edited September 15, 2014 by Behike54