Nakaya Elastic Nib Dry Up Too Fast

[Innosint]

Hello all.

 

I recently obtained a Nakaya with soft medium elastic nib. the nib writes fairly well and wet. no dry start. no skipping.

 

How ever. the nib seem to dry up at a relatively fast speed

 

from uncapped to the nib dry up and no longer wites. it takes only about 20 seconds.

 

is this normal behavior for this nib ? figure the exposed feed may affect it. but not to this extend.

[jmccarty3]

My Nakaya soft medium nib does not dry up like this, but it is not the elastic version. Perhaps there is a problem with the feed, or maybe the nib is not in proper contact with the feed. One option would be to send it to John Mottishaw for adjustment--it should not be doing this.

[jar]

Take a piece of paper and slip it between the nib and feed. It should be snug and very uniform clearance. If it is easy initially and then harder as the paper goes in it is likely the nib is not seated properly or was pushed too far and is now bent.

[Innosint]

Hello All,

So I was able to try the paper method... surprisingly, I was able to slip a post-it note in between effortlessly until it's toward the center (near where the feed was)

 

but where the nib and feed meet... its consistenly at the same location and pressure... weird.

 

This happens on both sides of the nib.

 

I also went for a converter and flushed the pen a few more times with soap, it looks like some small particle of ebonite was also stuck in the feed. with the same ink... it nows dries up in about 50 seconds... more reasonable, but not sure if this is supposed to happen.,

Edited April 21, 2018 by Innosint

[Sblakers]

What ink are you using? And have you tried different inks in the pen? certain inks dry up quicker in the nib. If I remember correctly, diamine Sargasso sea gave me this problem .

[Tseg]

I bought a used ST Dupont that had drying issues even after a soak in my ultrasonic cleaner. I read enough posts about skipping and dry starts and the wonders of cleaning the nib I gave it 3 or 4 more ultrasonic blasts with dish soap and sure enough all issues have gone away unless I use a very dry ink like a Pelikan 4001. I stick with a Iroshizuku or Sailor ink and it is nice and juice

[Innosint]

I stick with mostly Sailor inks.

 

The Red Urushi and Kobe #51 is what I have been using.

 

I addd a bit of lubricant into one of the ink. (red Urushi).

 

It does seem to help with the drying issue a bit. it now dries up in about 1 min~1 min 10 seconds instead. which is a lot more managable.