What's Your Experience In Hacking Feeds?

[minddance]

Where to carve out? What is the least amount of cuts that can bring about the greatest change in flow? Would it be fins or ink channel or portion nearest to convertor or nib?

[ReadyFireAim]

What is the least amount of cuts that can bring about the greatest change in flow?

To increase ink flow I'd start with...

 

Exposing more feed (Adjusting it out of the section further)

Clean it thoroughly using tooth paste or the potato trick and then spit

Scour the underside with microscrtches

Trying a different ink or adding Liquitex.

Widen the slit in the nib.

Using a different filling method like sac or eyedropper.

Heat setting the feed so there is a slight bend down & separation from the nib at the tip (a very small gap like .2mm)

Last I would open the side slits into the channel a bit more (a tiny bit at a time and only one pair of adjacent slits)

I usually start at the front but some will start just behind the breather hole in non-flex nibs.

This is something others may have more advice on because I only use flexy ones.

 

There are other tricks like adding a "go around" lengthwise channel around the breather hole.

Edited November 10, 2017 by Bordeaux146

[lurcho]

Interesting.

 

But what in the wide, wide world of sports is the potato trick?

[ReadyFireAim]

But what in the wide, wide world of sports is the potato trick?

 

http://theflourishforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2530.0

 

Yep...You stick the nib in a potato...Not kidding

[lurcho]

Thanks very much. I'm going to try that.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Once I made sure that the tines were aligned properly and that they weren't touching at the tip,

that the paper was not the problem,

that the feed was properly saturated,

and that the ink was not famous for its dryness,

 

I ran the tip of a paper cutter 2-3 times, slowly and carefully, in the slit of the feed of my Pilot Kakuno.

 

I got it that the nib is a fine one, but good lord I need to be able to read what I write.

 

It's been a couple of week since this 'hack' and I haven't had any issues so far.

[bromfieldpenshop]

If you can believe it I hve a pack of flow channel cleaners from back in the day. The package art work is great. I'll post a picture sometime. These sheets of steel are so thin because flow channels need not be any wider. Flow can be increased other ways but the flow channels are not the issue unless they are clogged. More often the nib tines are too snug or the feed is just of such poor quality and design that a better feed is needed (if it fits)