Help! Blobs Of Ink Spewing From My Pilot Penmanship

[Oldtimer]

i am loving my first Pilot Penmanship pen, but the continuous blobs of ink are a nuisance. I am using it as an eyedropper and am wondering if that could be the problem. Although i doubt it. A big drop of ink keeps building up on top of the nib while i write until it slides into the paper. Left overnight capped with nib down i woke up to a drop of ink inside the cap , which had obviously dripped from the nib.

 

Is this a regular thing with these pens or can i do something to fix it? Maybe try it with the converter? I am hoping that my all black pen arriving today is going to be different, because it really writes like wanted a pen to write. FExtra fine and smooth!

[KBeezie]

If you're using it as an eye-dropper are you making sure to do least one of two things?

 

1) using an o-Ring on the section to keep it airtight

or

2) using silicone grease around the section threads to keep it air tight?

 

If you're not doing either, it may not be air/water tight and air is seeping in and causing the ink to slowly leak and blob out forward and in general being way to wet.

[Oldtimer]

i am doing the "silicon thing" only. I don't have o-rings right now.

 

So, is it possible i need to do both?

 

if that is the case if i use the converter i should not experience the blobs… i mean, the cartridge.

Edited November 25, 2014 by Oldtimer

[Oldtimer]

Problem solved by using a cartridge…Then it writes a little dryer but OK. Thanks

[KBeezie]

Problem solved by using a cartridge…Then it writes a little dryer but OK. Thanks

It's likely that even with the silicone grease there was still getting in (my pilot petit1 was the same way, very wide threads on the section, needed an o-ring to effectively make that an eye dropper).

[Oldtimer]

It's likely that even with the silicone grease there was still getting in (my pilot petit1 was the same way, very wide threads on the section, needed an o-ring to effectively make that an eye dropper).

i will order some… Thanks! My Pilot Prera is being used as an eyedropper since i received it with no problems-no O-ring. i cannot order from Goulet because of their website problems. It doesn't run well on my iMac.

 

Where to order from?

 

 

Edited November 26, 2014 by Oldtimer

[brunico]

Ebay for O-rings. The Penmanship works just fine as an eyedropper with silicone grease: no need for O-rings, in my experience.

Edited November 26, 2014 by brunico

[KBeezie]

Ebay for O-rings. The Penmanship works just fine as an eyedropper with silicone grease: no need for O-rings, in my experience.

Unless of course some of them don't have perfectly identical threading, or not enough grease, or there's a crack/hole/etc somewhere.

[Oldtimer]

Added lots of silicon, still is dropping ink from the feeder (below nib) and from the tines ( blob of ink on top). Now i have two with the same problem

[Kevan]

Eyedropper filled pens are just asking for trouble in my experience. I know plenty of people love them but every single time I've tried it, I've had ink blobs and leakage, even with o-rings and grease

[Oldtimer]

I will be filling ink cartridges forever, i guess..it's a bad surprise when it happens. You never know when they are coming out. As i said before, i think- have a Prera as eyedropper,no o-ring and works perfectly fine. it's something with the Penmanship. Thanks anyway. I was going to order the o-rings but i think not now.

[KBeezie]

Eyedropper filled pens are just asking for trouble in my experience. I know plenty of people love them but every single time I've tried it, I've had ink blobs and leakage, even with o-rings and grease

Could also be some inks are just not ED friendly. Plus it's not like the pens were designed to be EDs, they were just suitable for conversion most of the time.

[Oldtimer]

Could also be some inks are just not ED friendly. Plus it's not like the pens were designed to be EDs, they were just suitable for conversion most of the time.

Last occurrence: i had one with cartridge and the other as eyedropper. I Used the eyedropper The whole day and at the end of the day i went to use the ONE WITH THE CARTRIDGE. Sorry. Anyway, the cap was full of ink! It had leaked heavily while standing cap down with the cartridge.

 

I know it is a cheap pen, and i shouldn't expect perfection, but even cheaper ones work perfectly. Just a cautionary note for any future users so they don't place them down in their pockets. I either received two bad pens or something else is going on. The one used as eyedropper is full of Noodler's Black. It also leaked into the cap as it laid cap down in a pen holder.

 

Both of them came with converters and that is the only mode i have still to try.

Edited November 28, 2014 by Oldtimer