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I want some advice on my current Sheaffer fountain pens. I have noticed that they leak at the nipple where it joins the convertor. I have a prelude, intensity and 300 series and Ive had nipple leakage with all of these pens? I would like a senior collector or and experienced Sheaffer fp user to chime in please?

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neither a senior collector, nor a seasoned Sheaffer fanboy,

 

but still, I can relate to this problem.

 

My sheaffer 440 came with a converter (squeeze) and it used to leak (droplets, not hose).

Same converter works fine in one of my No-nonsense.

Sheaffer 300 came with a piston converter (screw on top), it fits everywhere.

 

I bought another triumph (forgot model) that came with squeeze converter and it leaked in my other NN. Droplets again. :(

Maybe crazy converters?
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Two likely sources, damage to the Sheaffer or damage to the converter. The test is the same for both; switch to Sheaffer cartridges for awhile and see if problem goes away. If it does, replace the converter. If it does not, send pen for repair.

 

 

 

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Converters don't last forever. The Sheaffer squeeze converters I used in Connaisseur and others lasted five to ten years. Piston converters, al makes, Sheaffer, Montblanc, Parker, etc., last about ten years. Then stuff happens. Leaks at the joint with the section nipple, piston losing suction.

 

Jar's test will reveal the source of the problem, pen or converter.

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Converters don't last forever. The Sheaffer squeeze converters I used in Connaisseur and others lasted five to ten years. Piston converters, al makes, Sheaffer, Montblanc, Parker, etc., last about ten years. Then stuff happens. Leaks at the joint with the section nipple, piston losing suction.

 

Jar's test will reveal the source of the problem, pen or converter.

 

This pretty much seems like it. If there's any lack of sealing in the converters, that gap, be it a pin-(bleep) or what not will contribute to a lack of vaccum and air will be able to easily escape up thru the feed to the back of the converter causing the ink to just drip out.

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Seems to be that we agree. Time for some new converters. I bought one really cheap on Amazon and got free shipping. It took a while to come from overseas but it was worth it. Just like a car, parts wear and you have to replace them. All part of the nondisposable pen charm.........

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Seems to be that we agree. Time for some new converters. I bought one really cheap on Amazon and got free shipping. It took a while to come from overseas but it was worth it. Just like a car, parts wear and you have to replace them. All part of the nondisposable pen charm.........

I hope it is a "Sheaffer converter". Sheaffer pens use a proprietary converter and standard ones will leak.

 

 

 

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I love it. This thread has now made me realize you can't even type "pin-(bleep)"!

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Those area all pretty new Sheaffer pens. If they were mine, I'd be talking to the Sheaffer Service Center 319-372-7444 X106

 

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I want some advice on my current Sheaffer fountain pens. I have noticed that they leak at the nipple where it joins the convertor. I have a prelude, intensity and 300 series and Ive had nipple leakage with all of these pens? I would like a senior collector or and experienced Sheaffer fp user to chime in please?

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I love it. This thread has now made me realize you can't even type "pin-(bleep)"!

Still wondering what the original word was......

 

 

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Oh dear.... :blush:

 

 

What if it were written without the hyphen???

 

I shall be bold: pinprick. There

 

 

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Those area all pretty new Sheaffer pens. If they were mine, I'd be talking to the Sheaffer Service Center 319-372-7444 X106

 

Sam

 

 

 

Actually Sam, you'd probably head over to see them at lunch, right? :lticaptd:

 

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I've replaced all 5 of the converter and it still happens from time to time. Oddly with screw in types likely Cross Century II never leaked at all. Same with twsbi, montblanc, and others where the sealing of the mechanism never has hadst issues whatsoever.

 

Ihaveniticed a shifting air bubble or even perhaps air pressure will cause a mild leak at the nipple junction.

 

I found out that these style of fountain pens with a nipple and a convert pushed in will leak. It's a design flaw of the mechanism. So I am told by an clerk at my local pen store.

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I've replaced all 5 of the converter and it still happens from time to time. Oddly with screw in types likely Cross Century II never leaked at all. Same with twsbi, montblanc, and others where the sealing of the mechanism never has hadst issues whatsoever.

 

Ihaveniticed a shifting air bubble or even perhaps air pressure will cause a mild leak at the nipple junction.

 

I found out that these style of fountain pens with a nipple and a convert pushed in will leak. It's a design flaw of the mechanism. So I am told by an clerk at my local pen store.

 

Don't believe everything you are told. I have well over 100 non-threaded converter filled pens from quite a few different manufacturers; I have been using pens with that design for over a half century and have never had a single one leak.

 

The clerk was simply ignorant of facts.

 

 

 

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Leaky Nipples In Sheaffer Fp's?

Can't says I had this problem...In my experience with converters/leaky nipples...

and it need not be validated by any outside source...

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Never happened in my collection, and I have more Sheaffers than anything else, and have actively used them since the 1970's.

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My Sheaffers span a few decades and several manufacturing sources. The nipples are not all the same diameter in all of the pens. a cartridge has a less forgiving seal and may leak a bit if transferred from a large diameter nipple to a smaller pipette.

I ride a recumbent, I play go, I use Macintosh so of course I use a fountain pen.

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I have friends that are avid Sheaffer pen collectors and some have the same issues and a few friends never an issue. Im not entirely sure what i may be perhaps doing wrong?

 

im going to replace the convertors in all of them to see if it will make a difference.

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