Ws 3008 + Barrister Purple = Red Heart, No Ink Flow

[WolvertonMountain]

I have more than five WS 3008 pens inked for over five months and this is the strangest result I have yet experienced.

I recently received a few Lamy M nibs and installed one into one of my WS 3008 pens. When I received my Blackstone Barrister Purple (BBP), I filled my Lamy-nibbed 3008 with this BBP ink. This combo wrote immediately with no problems and I love this purple color.

Fast forward to three weeks later and this combo stopped laying ink on paper. I examined the pen and found NO INK in the section's feed. I removed the ink, the nib and the feed, cleaned everything with pen flush, rinsed, dried and replaced the parts, and again filled this pen with the BBP ink.

This combo started immediately and wrote well but I noticed the ink was leaving the section and not being replaced by the ink in the reservoir. I removed the ink, nib and feed and examined them closely with a 10x loupe. Using the loupe and holding the feed in front of a bright light, I could see the 'bubble' near the top of the feed appeared to be filled with red ink. Rotating the feed made the bubble look like a red heart when turned to one of two positions, 180 degrees apart. I am unable to remove this red residue from the feed's bubble.

I emptied the reservoir of ink, replaced all the pen's parts, and filled it with pen flush. I will leave it sit for a week to see if I can get the red heart to again become an empty bubble.

Any suggestions as to what other operations I might try?

Clifton

[amberleadavis]

Do you have any pictures? And I'd love to see the BPP in action.

[WolvertonMountain]

Do you have any pictures? And I'd love to see the BPP in action.

 

Nope, no photos. The 1-2 mm bubble near the top of the 3008's feed would require a camera with a macro lens, neither of which I have.

How about this alternative…

I will keep the pen through the weekend to see if the pen flush affects the 'red heart'.

If the red heart is still in the feed Monday, I will ship the pen, or the feed, (your choice) to you along with the remaining 1 ml of my BBP sample. (I will be ordering a bottle of BBP from Anderson Pens just as soon as I determine what else I will be ordering.)

Note: The Medium Lamy nib I installed in the 3008 gives the BBP a darker purple than the Fine nib which originally came with the 3008.

Thanks, Amberlea.

Clifton

[amberleadavis]

You are awesome!

[BaronWulfraed]

 

Nope, no photos. The 1-2 mm bubble near the top of the 3008's feed would require a camera with a macro lens, neither of which I have.

 

You might be surprised... Images for web display (say 800x600 pixels) are only half a megapixel. If your camera is in the 8+ megapixel range, you could shoot from a distance and CROP the image down for posting purposes.

 

1/4 (half width & half height) of an 8MP frame is 2MP, 1/4 of that is 0.5MP -> web size. So if the subject can be framed in an area the is 1/4 of the width and 1/4 of the height, you are good to go.