Twsbi -- How To Stop Leaking

[farseer911]

How do you stop the leaking out of the rear of the piston seals? Also is there any way to stop ink from leaking into the cap from the nib? While I love Noodlers Ellis Island Blue it is not all that attractive when leaking out of both ends of the pen.

 

Also any one know how to dismantle the cap so I can clean up inside it? If there a way?

Edited July 14, 2010 by farseer911

[dizzypen]

Have you emailed Speedy about getting new piston seals? Sounds to me like your piston seal is a little worse off than the rest. If ink is able to get past both lines then air can get into the barrel. That would cause the ink to seep out.

 

ETA: here is the thread regarding the leaky piston:

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/160265-notice-to-300-pre-sale-twsbi-diamond-530-owners/

Edited July 14, 2010 by dizzypen

[farseer911]

Have you emailed Speedy about getting new piston seals? Sounds to me like your piston seal is a little worse off than the rest. If ink is able to get past both lines then air can get into the barrel. That would cause the ink to seep out.

 

ETA: here is the thread regarding the leaky piston:

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/160265-notice-to-300-pre-sale-twsbi-diamond-530-owners/

 

Thanks for the info, did not see that with all the other post about this pen popping up. Hopefully that will fix some of the wetness/line width I am experiencing (xf writing like a Pilot Medium)

[speedy]

Leaking into the cap?? Can you describe what happened to me. It is not suppose to have any leak in the section, cap area.

I only heard that one gentleman left his pen on the desk without tighten the cap, so someone in his house pass by, see the pen, play with it, turn the blind cap, so ink got out from the nib into the cap.... Was this also in your case?

 

Pls refer below link, how to take apart the cap

http://www.bbs.twsbi.com/viewthread.php?tid=1375&extra=page%3D1

Is your pen seal ring 1 leaking?

 

[alouisf02]

Just got my pen and love it. While at work today, towards the end if the day and repetitive use, I notice what seemed like a drop or two of ink in the top of my cap. I will double check in the morning and prolly swab it out. I also noticed a bit of condensation...

 

Other than that and the piston seals, I can't get enough of this bad boy! Got quite a few compliments as well!

[sotto2]

I'm just speculating here, but I'm wondering if the leakage of ink past the piston is related to a back pressure phenomenon of some kind caused by either screwing down the cap too tightly (creating an increase in the air pressure in that smokey plastic tube the nib fits into when capped), and/or filling the pen too full and then screwing down the piston a bit to expel a couple drops of ink back into the bottle. Both, it seems to me, may cause an increase in fluid pressure that might force ink back out through the flanges on the piston.

 

Maybe I'm totally full of it, too. ;-) However, as of yet, my pen hasn't demonstrated this leakage issue and I'm making a conscious effort not to screw the cap on too tightly and I've only partially filled the pen with Yu-Yake ink cuz I want to try another color sooner than later.

 

At any rate, the easiest way to check on this would be to not screw the cap down so tightly, and not fill the pen too full of ink, and don't be so persnickety about expelling the last molecule of residual air remaining from the ink chamber. If such an explanation is the least bit plausible, then maybe removing that smokey tube from the cap would help eliminate the back pressure issue, although possibly drying out the nib as I think Speedy or Mark already suggested because it is more exposed to the atmosphere.

 

Sorry if this is all baloney. I'm good at making that.

Edited July 15, 2010 by sotto2