Sailor King Of Pen (Kop) Leaking...

[laurooon]

Hi,

 

I have a brand new Sailor KOP ST and it runs perfect. I love the nib, however, I do have an issue with the pen.

It seems to leak ink somehow. The issue happens exactly, where the grip section is at the gold band. When the pen is closed, it seems to "sweat" ink out of a 0,1mm gap between the barrel and the nib section. I could only assume, that ink somehow hot beneath the rubber O-Ring.

 

I have already cleaned the Pen a view times with water, but the issue remains.

 

I wish I could open the nib section somehow, clean it perfectly, dry everything and put it back together. But I don't know how to remove the nib.

Any ideas how I can handle this. I bought this in Japan. Sending it now back would be a pain.

 

I attached a pic, where you can see a tiny drop of blue ink on the gold band. That is, what I'm taking about.

 

B/r

laurooon

 

[Pactagon]

Do this at your own risk: The nib unit and section should be able to unscrew from the metal part within the barrel. First unscrew the barrel and take out the converter. Then get a good grip on the metal in one hand and the section in the other, and twist. It'll take a bit of force to overcome the glue on the threads, but after that unscrewing it should be no problem. What most likely happened is ink got between the nib unit and the grip when you filled. This can be avoided by only dipping the nib a little past the breather hole when you fill. Most of Sailor's higher end pens are tip-dip types.

[laurooon]

Exactly this was the reason!! It took me a while to find out how to open that pen. But I'm finally there! I cleaned everthing perfectly and now the issue went away and didn't occur agian.

There is a small very thin rubber O-Ring, which is extremely fragile and can easily been torn apart.

 

In gerneral I love, when i can disassemble a pen, especially for clearing reasons. Every pen should be like this. I think the stuff on the treads is not glue (in such case I would not be able to open it), but it is grease.

 

Thanks for the advice.

B/r

laurooon