My favorite Sheaffer to write with is a Legacy with a stub nib. Unfortunately, after many fills at night, when I open the pen in the morning I found a line of ink has leaked onto the surface of the nib and inside the cap.

I have spent a fair amount of time cleaning and drying both the nib as well as washing and drying the cap repeatedly but, every time I refill the pen and start another week, it takes about 2 days for some ink to reaccumulate and start messing up my inlaid nib. I should note that after washing the cap that I allow it to dry for as long as a week before refilling the pen.

Any ideas on a reason and (more importantly) a fix?

such a nice pen!!, too bad it leaks. i have no idea what can cause that, maybe someone else in the forum can help on that. i just wanted to say, if it's a new pen, can you take it back? if not new, can you contact sheaffer?

i don't know where you are, but i took these addresses from billspens.com (i'm hoping they are updated):

Sheaffer - USA Sheaffer, Inc.
301 Ave. H
Ft. Madison, Iowa 52627 1- 319-372-3300
1-800-346-3736
Fax: 319-372-7539 Sheaffer

Sheaffer - Canada Sheaffer Pen Inc.
155 Oakdale Rd.
Toronto, Ontario M3N 1W2 1- 416-742-9173
Fax: 416-741-4965

Sheaffer - England Sheaffer Pen, Ltd.
Maylands Ave.
Hemel Hempstead
Herts HP2 7ER 0442-233411
Fax: 0442-233022

Sheaffer - Germany Sheaffer Pen Vertriebs GmbH
Postfach 64 66
97014 Wurxburg
Spessartstrabe 59
97-85 Wurzbury 0931 41 61 97
Fax: 0931 41 61 85

hope you can get it fixed!!