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Please allow me to introduce myself, I am Alexsandar Tosshoski from Prilep, Macedonia. I am 48 years old, and I'm writing exclusively (except when I'm forced to use BP in post ofices or so) with fountain pens since 1982. I have a modest collection of modern and vintage-ish (sixties to nineties) collection of fountain pens. For begging, I have a question.I have a Rotring Freeway fountain pen that drips drops of ink on the nib and in the cap when I open it. It's the same case with Indian Parker Frontier which is having breather hole that is supposed there to stop this from happening. Is there some simple fix for this problem? Thanks in advance.

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Hello and welcome to this friendly corner of the universe from a fountain pen user in San Diego. There is such a wealth of information waiting for you to discover on this site. It's interesting to me that you mentioned post office pens. I am just old enough to remember that banks and post offices in the USA provided fountain pens for their customers use. Usually it was the Esterbrook 444 shown below.


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Hello and welcome to this friendly corner of the universe from a fountain pen user in San Diego. There is such a wealth of information waiting for you to discover on this site. It's interesting to me that you mentioned post office pens. I am just old enough to remember that banks and post offices in the USA provided fountain pens for their customers use. Usually it was the Esterbrook 444 shown below.

http://www.adspast.com/store/skin1/images/pics4/esterbrook52deskpen444.jpg

 

I might add to that; I recall a time when banks would not accept checks written with a ballpoint pen. This was in the years after the conclusion of WWII

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Please allow me to introduce myself, I am Alexsandar Tosshoski from Prilep, Macedonia. I am 48 years old, and I'm writing exclusively (except when I'm forced to use BP in post ofices or so) with fountain pens since 1982. I have a modest collection of modern and vintage-ish (sixties to nineties) collection of fountain pens. For begging, I have a question.I have a Rotring Freeway fountain pen that drips drops of ink on the nib and in the cap when I open it. It's the same case with Indian Parker Frontier which is having breather hole that is supposed there to stop this from happening. Is there some simple fix for this problem? Thanks in advance.

Alexandar, the admission of too great a passage of air into ink chamber is the usual cause of the problem that you describe. I've found a cure to be the use of silicone grease applied to the portion of the feed that is inserted into the section. This is done with the feed removed. The grease is applied carefully so as not to fill the channels that permit the passage of air into and ink out of the ink's chamber. Simply put, you want to prevent the intrusion of air except that which passes through the feed's breather channel.

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Hello and thank you everyone! @k3eax, are you referring to the plumbers silicone grease or some special type meant for fountain pens only?

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Hello and welcome to this friendly corner of the universe from a fountain pen user in San Diego. There is such a wealth of information waiting for you to discover on this site. It's interesting to me that you mentioned post office pens. I am just old enough to remember that banks and post offices in the USA provided fountain pens for their customers use. Usually it was the Esterbrook 444 shown below.

http://www.adspast.com/store/skin1/images/pics4/esterbrook52deskpen444.jpg

Well, I'M not that old, but I still have my gratfather's nib holder and inkblotter that he used for everyday writing from thirties to the sixties. Will post picture soon.

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G'day Alexander and welcome mate. My guess is Plumbers grease, I think one of them is called "Stopcock Grease" from memory, I've used it extensively in the power generation industry over the year or two (cough cough). I think there's also a food grade one as well.

 

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Hello Alexsandar and welcome to FPN, from Cape Town, South Africa.

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