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I pulled the Prelude apart and gafe it another cleaning/soaking. Less soap this time. Better drying/drainage.

 

On my way home from work I picked up a pack of Waterman Florida Blue cartidges. Loaded one up and found out that it doesn't fit the Prelude...I can't put it all together with the cartridge in it. So, I cut open a couple cartridges and poured them into a dish so I could fill my Scheaffer converter with the ink.

 

I used the pen for a while last night and at every opportunity today and it's working almost flawlessly. I'm quite pleased.

 

So the Waterman ink is thinner/slicker and that's why it's working better? I hope it helps clean out whatever was holding things up before. I have a lot of cartridges to run through it now at least (it was an 8-pack) so I have plenty of time to see.

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Glad to hear things are going better. Of course you realize that now you have to buy yourself a bottle of WM FB, don't you? It's really a great, guaranteed trouble-free ink time after time, bottle after bottle.

 

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Maybe.  It beats squeezing the ink out of converters. :D

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Anyway, WM FB, BB and SSB are great inks for what I call priming a nib. 2-3 cartridges or converters full will set a pen right, for any other ink, provided there isn't some general flow problem with the pen/nib/feed. It is now my preferred way to break in a pen, unless it is absolutely clear from the word go it'll work.

 

The thing I do is first to check if the pen is right, no damage etc., check if the tines are aligned, and if not, align them with a little finger nail flick or two, flush and rinse it with a soapy solution (1 or 2 drops of liquid dishwashing soap in a glass of water, sometimes more), then rinse and flush it a few times with water, dry the pen, nib and feed properly, often let it dry overnight if I can resist waiting that long :D, then dip it in Waterman Blue Black first, a few times, dry off the excess ink, and try writing with it. If that feels right, I'll rinse it all out again, dry, etc., etc., then properly fill it with the ink that feels right for the pen. If it doesn't feel right, I'll fill it with WM BB, and continue with WM BB for a few loads, writing it empty.

 

In case it was filled with another ink, and it doesn't perform well enough or not to my liking, I'll get rid of the ink in it, flush, rinse, dry and fill it with WM BB for a few fills anyway. Of course, it it does perform well, no problem.

 

HTH, warm regards, Wim

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