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I recently bought a Massdrop Passaporto which i filled with Diamine Turquoise.

 

Noticed that some of the ink leaked between the metal and plastic parts, please see attached image. Is this normal? Somehow i don't feel comfortable with putting that pen in my pocket..

 

 

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Non notisi signi.

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Yeah, the pen's more complicated than you think. There is a separate plastic piece under the rubber gasket that can be unscrewed. I found that out the hard way when I stored the pen with an empty cartridge and upon removing, said piece came along with it. That's where the ink is trapped.

 

I don't think it's got anything to do with quality. Even the best demonstrators will see this type of problem that is not visible in a non demo pen. Don't know how might you know about demonstrators. I have a few demonstrators that have this type of problems, and I have learned to live with them.

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I don't know about quality control issues but for a travel pen, mine has leaked massively on an airplane ... So I'll take my passport, but not the Passaporto

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."

– Lin Yu-T'ang

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Hi,

 

There are so many different production variants of the Passaporto, and not a lot of the parts are really interchangeable between pens. I know that on the ones I had, there were issues with the cap threadings of different barrels being different. The grip section in that picture is very different from any of the ones I had. Also, if I remember correctly, some of the Passaporto pens also had an O-ring in the barrel too. The ultimate fate of my Passport was that the metal ring in the barrel corroded from ink exposure, and I had to stop using the pen. The construction methods of the pen varied significantly during its lifespan, and whatever methods one person used to fix their problems often didn't apply to the next person because their pen was constructed differently.

 

Dillon

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