The Hero 100 is a great pen for my purposes. It has become my favorite daily-use pen at work.

Each morning, I uncap it and find the nib totally dried out. I have to immerse the nib in ink and pump the Vacumatic-style filler a couple of times to get the pen started for the day, even though the pen is never empty.

Does anyone have any ideas as to a solution, or is this just the way things are going to be?

How about if you just wet the nib. With water. Though in old movies you sometimes see the ace reporter use saliva.

Andy

Hello,

I had the same issue with an old Hero pen (do not know the model). Inspecting inside the cap I found that the plastic sleeve, where the nib is enclosed when capped, had a small hole at the very end, thus allowing the ink to evaporate.

I sealed this hole with a bit of epoxy glue (using a small wire to apply it) and the dryness was solved, now I can write at once even after a week of not using the pen.
There are reports in this board that the sealing can be achieved with a bit of nail varnish. Also note that the hole can be located where the clip enters the cap.

Best regards

Carlos Flores

I did that once with this pen. Then I was asked why I had a black tongue...

Thanks for the tip! I'll look into it. I imagine that this plastic part would not easily come out of the pen cap; I wonder if putting a few drops of water in there would help find such a hole, or just make a mess? And preemptively putting a light coat of something around the inside of that plastic part probably wouldn't hurt anything.

I have the same problem with my Hero 100 flighter, and sure enough, looking in the cap, there was the blind cap, with a huge crack in it, and tons of air just pouring in...gotta get that fixed...hmmmm

Looks like there may be a problem with the Hero 100 blind caps, I sent one back because of this, and the second one (my flighter) did it too...

I've had this problem with both Hero & Duke pens, must try the nail varnish trick

Peter

My 100 flighter exhibits the same symptoms. I'll have to take a look in the blind cap when I get home. Hmmmm....

Best-
Brian

Sure enough...I picked up some epoxy from Wal Mart the other night, got home and epoxied the blind cap, and the Hero works PERFECTLY now. I keep leeting it sit, nib up, during the day, and try it the next morning, and it starts to write the moment it touches paper. Excellent!