Mb Royal Blue Ink Causes A Crack Of Proust Barrel.

[ko6]

A Japanese blog (The Fountain Pen Kaledoscope http://www.f-pens.com/?p=1039) reported a very surprising story.

 

After 4 months use of a mint MB Proust (he took out from the sealed box), he found a small crack in the barrel near the nib, because of the leak of ink. It is a common problem of Proust, and I also experienced.

 

When he took to the MB Boutique in Tokyo for repairing this last September. Two month after the inspection in Germany, a MB customer service person explained to him that the cause of the crack was the ink in the barrel. According to him, he had used only MB Royal Blue ink. This meant that MB RB caused the crack.

 

Still, the MB boutique did not acknowledge the liability of this problem, and charged him $600 for the repair.

 

Now he thought either of simply paying $600 or of suing MB due to their product liability.

 

I will observe the development of this case.

[Joane]

Very interesting. This same problem happened to the Marcel Proust of a person I know. In that case the pen was sent back to MB for repair. They acknowledged it was a problem with the Proust and fixed it at no charge. Since then there has to my knowledge been no problem with the pen. I don't think MB ink was used either.

[Chris Chalmers]

My Proust came to me pre-loved, no papers, no receipt - and had a similar if not identical leak where the silver meets the resin at the section end of the barrel. I sent it to MB in Melbourne who then sent it to Hamburg where it was repaired and returned - absolutely no charge at all, even for shipping. I was told that all WEs and LEs have to go to Hamburg for repair, wherever in the world they hail from.

I had used a variety of inks, and nothing was said about the use of inks as the cause, I think it is a fault with that model..........but I wouldn't trade this pen for the world - a wonderful writer!!!

[BrandonA]

Sounds rubbish to me. If the ink did this then you'd have to imagine that it would damage more than just one specific pen model.

[carlosjaviercontreras]

No kidding. I was going to flush that ink out of my 149 even before entering this thread. Just the title scared me. I love the purplish tones of MB Royal Blue, but I wouldn't allow anything harming my princess!