Cartridge Stuck In The Barrel

[Lady P]

I just got a new pen in the mail: a Faber-Castell Loom with a purple cap and a broad nib. I'd love to try it, but there's a small problem: the pen came with a cartridge stuck in the back of the barrel! This means that I can neither use the cartridge that the pen came with nor fit in a converter (which is what I intended to do in the first place, as I virtually never use cartridges). I tried tapping the barrel to get the cartridge out (and I tapped quite hard, I think), but to no avail. What should I do? Just try tapping harder? (I don't want to destroy the pen!) Please tell me I don't need any fancy tools...

[Lady P]

Never mind, I got it out... I banged the barrel as hard as I could against the palm of my hand, and the cartridge fell out. My hand is a bit sore, but the pen is "alive" (it has a metal barrel after all!). Now need to try out the pen!

[Sasha Royale]

Amen !

 

Was it stuck by dried ink ? From the earliest days of cartridge fountain pens, people use the pen barrel to

align the cartridge and the leverage of the threads to force puncture of the cartridge. I never like the practice.

Cartridges are easily installed with hand pressure and a bit of back and forth rotation.

 

By the way, cartridges are expensive. Bottle ink is cheap. Besides the converter, cartridges are easily refilled

with a syringe. (Don't squeeze them.)

 

Write with joy.

[Russ]

Another way to remove stuck cartridges is by using a drywall screw. Its threads will engage in the plastic cart body and draw it out.

[Lady P]

Amen !

 

Was it stuck by dried ink ? From the earliest days of cartridge fountain pens, people use the pen barrel to

align the cartridge and the leverage of the threads to force puncture of the cartridge. I never like the practice.

Cartridges are easily installed with hand pressure and a bit of back and forth rotation.

 

By the way, cartridges are expensive. Bottle ink is cheap. Besides the converter, cartridges are easily refilled

with a syringe. (Don't squeeze them.)

 

Write with joy.

 

 

I don't think dried ink had anything to do with it. This was a brand new pen. I got it out of the box, and a cartridge (new, unused) was stuck in the back of the barrel.

I don't normally use cartridges. I only installed this one because it came with the pen. Once I use it up, I'll switch to bottled ink.