Hello all!

I have a Sheaffer Balance, I believe, with a #3 gold nib. I keep the pen upright when filled with ink, yet when I remove the cap to write there is ink covering the edges of the nib towards the tip. This is most annoying as it necessitates continual cleaning of the cap interior let alone the nib. I am using Private Reserve Velvet Black ink, if that makes a difference.

Does anyone know why this is happening? And what can prevent it?

Thanks!

Chris

This happens to me too, and I don't know what to do about it. I'm guessing that it's partly related to my body heat, but it even seems to happen when not in my shirt pocket. Vacuum of the inner cap being pulled off?

Either way, it's highly annoying, so advice would be more than welcome.

For some strange reason, on mine, it seems to happen on one side of the nib only.

I've got a couple of small Parkers of similar age that do a similar trick, and they're button-fillers. I think it may be just a matter of the point/feed geometry, although if your pen is a vac-filler it might also be something related to the expansion of air in the body from heat (as is know to afflict eye-droppers). Sorry I don't have a remedy, tho'.