Leaking Edson

[praxim]

I have a Waterman Edson which leaks small amounts of ink if left on its side rather than upright. Given a dozen other different pens do not show the same behaviour, I take this to be a fault and presumably unexpected in this pen.

 

Is it possible this could be an ill-fitting converter, for example, or is that precluded given the slight leak emerges at the sides next to the nib?

 

Before I launch into that check or any disassembly, does anyone have clues to offer regarding where I should first look?

 

The pen otherwise rights perfectly well, just at the cost of a large dark inky patch on my middle finger, that being the furthest forward.

[praxim]

Further to the above post, I have isolated the problem to a very fine crack in the bottom centimetre of the section underside, so fine that the leakage is extremely slow which fooled me into thinking it was spotting from the breather hole, a problem reported elsewhere.

 

With the problem known comes the process to fix it. Not being in America and knowing of no relevant specialist here, my options reduce to "return it to Waterman" and "do it myself". This particular Edson is not pristine and has no box so I am unfussed by attempting it myself provided I can gather some views on possible ways of going about it, whether or not that involves removing the section and knocking out the nib and feed. I gather that both removal tasks are difficult.

 

Anyone have any thoughts?

[fountainbel]

Drying the section crack thoroughly and applying "Captain Tooley"s creeping crack cure"in the crack - in a few applications - cured similar problems for me.

Francis

[praxim]

Thank you. The product name is unknown to me but I suppose that is the entire reason they invented google.

[Chi Town]

Drying the section crack thoroughly and applying "Captain Tooley"s creeping crack cure"in the crack - in a few applications - cured similar problems for me.

Francis

 

"Ditto"